{"id":345193,"date":"2025-12-12T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345193\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:00:09","slug":"alyssa-farah-griffin-predicts-economic-devastation-amid-trumps-new-tourist-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/345193\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Farah Griffin Predicts ‘Economic Devastation’ Amid Trump’s New Tourist Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cohosts of The View<\/a> reacted to Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s newest plan to require travelers from 42 countries to submit their social media feeds for review in order to travel to the United States, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Australia, among other visa-waiver program nations. Alyssa Farah Griffin<\/a> was particularly concerned by the move and brought out the proverbial receipts to express why.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs this going to kill tourism in this country?\u201d Joy Behar<\/a> asked her cohosts. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s down six-point-something ercent, which translates to $12 billion, approximately, in lost revenue.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s actually significantly more,\u201d Griffin then said. \u201cIt\u2019s actually about $250 billion in lost revenue to the United States because of the dip in tourism we saw in 2025, which has been by experts, largely attributed to the political environment in the United States, the tariffs kind of driving up cost of goods that you\u2019re going to buy once you\u2019re here, and then the president\u2019s also put some other visa restrictions in place that are already making it more expensive to come here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffin went on to add, \u201cOne of the biggest revenue generators to the United States is foreign tourism. People want to come here. They want to spend their money here. It creates jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then said Trump \u201cdodged\u201d the issue of the economic impact of lost tourism in the clip the group reviewed of him speaking about it, adding, \u201cHe was asked pretty much point-blank, \u2018What is this going to do to the tourism industry?\u2019 And he didn\u2019t have a good answer.\u201d She also suggested that Trump, of all people, should care about that issue, having run multiple hotels across the country and the globe himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, every one of us, I\u2019m sure, cares about making sure people who want to do harm don\u2019t come into this country. That\u2019s not really what this is about,\u201d Griffin continued. \u201cWe\u2019re actually very good at catching people who have threatened the U.S., who have espoused any kind of beliefs that are hateful, long before they come to the United States in the post-9\/11 era. That\u2019s something we do very effectively. This is much more about looking at people\u2019s social media. I think it\u2019s weeding out ideological [issues].\u201d<\/p>\n

Ana Navarro<\/a> then joked that if her own social media were scrutinized that way, she\u2019d be \u201cbanned from entering this country for life,\u201d adding that she knows from experience because she is not allowed to return to her birth nation of Nicaragua for being critical of its government. \u201cI was shocked because it\u2019s actually mostly white countries. Usually, when he\u2019s banning people from this country, it\u2019s Black and brown people he\u2019s banning. But this is Australia, and it\u2019s Belgium, and it\u2019s the Netherlands. It\u2019s 42 countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the purpose of looking at the social media is to weed out people who are writing \u2018Death to America\u2019 or maybe associating with terrorist groups who, there\u2019s clear red flags that they may pose a threat to America, I say good,\u201d Navarro continued. \u201cIf the scrutinizing of the social media is about criticism of Trump and eliminating people who may criticize Trump, that is what dictators do in places like Nicaragua, like Venezuela, like Cuba, like North Korea. They have every right to disagree with Trump, to criticize them in the same way that we do in this country. So therein lies the difference. Is it about intimidating people, silencing people into not criticizing people?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sara Haines<\/a> vehemently agreed with Navarro, saying, \u201cYou literally took the words out of my mouth.\u201d She noted that if the purpose of the act was to weed out people associated with terrorism, that would be fine. However, she added, \u201cIf it becomes someone criticizes Trump, or maybe has a policy difference with Trump, that\u2019s not terrorist, just maybe progressive or something different, it could very quickly turn into complete censorship of anyone coming to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunny Hostin<\/a> said this was a matter of free speech to criticize the U.S. government on social media and said, \u201cThat doesn\u2019t make you a terrorist because you may not agree with governmental policy. And as far as Trump is concerned, he doesn\u2019t seem to mind that white Afrikaners are coming here who subscribe to apartheid and are anti-Black. He doesn\u2019t seem to have a problem with that type of terrorism. But what I will say this is I\u2019m concerned with the fact that the administration is demanding that prospective foreign students unlock their social media profiles, and those who refuse to do so will be they\u2019re suspected of hiding their activity, and there are just several high-profile foreign students have been detained for voicing support for, let\u2019s say, Palestinian or arguing against genocide, arguing against war crime. That is an ideological thing. And I that\u2019s that\u2019s not necessarily anti-American. And so I\u2019m, I\u2019m really bothered, I think, by the fact that the administration may be trying to silence people\u2026 This is supposed to be the land of free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

Griffin then circled back to finish her point, saying, \u201cI cannot express enough how big of an economic devastation this will be to the U.S. tourism industry. You\u2019re talking about the U.K., some of our closest allies in this U.S. visa waiver program, who are coming in many times, multiple times, throughout the year, and they\u2019re already seeing backlogs at some of these embassies that they\u2019re saying, \u2018Your appointment to get a visa is going to be delayed weeks and weeks.\u2019 People are going to cancel trips. They\u2019re not going to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere\u2019s the Supreme Court?\u201d Behar wondered aloud.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why we saw last week, the president of FIFA giving him that fake medal,\u201d Navarro then said. \u201cBecause when you look at the list of these countries, many, many of these countries are actually playing in the World Cup, and the people from these countries are going to want to attend these games, and so it behooves the president of FIFA to make sure that the people paying thousands of dollars to buy tickets and come to this country that are going to spend it in our American cities are able to get the visas. So he needs to give him another medal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The View, weekdays, 11a\/10c, ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cohosts of The View reacted to Donald Trump\u2018s newest plan to require travelers from 42 countries to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-345193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}