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Slack.com slash DHQ. Joe Biden is banning seven countries worth of Africans from entering

the country as the new Omicron variant of COVID rages across the continent. The president

has cut off travel from South Africa, but Swan is in Bobway, Namibia, Lizzotho, Izwatini.

And that's actually what I had for dinner last night. Mozambique and Malawi, which might

remind some people who can remember all the way back to last year of Donald Trump's travel

ban, which Joe Biden called, quote, hysterical xenophobia. Here is how White House

press secretary Jen Psaki tried to explain away the change of tune.

Before Joe Biden's president, he said that COVID travel restrictions on foreign countries

were hysterical xenophobia and fear-moments of what change?

Well, I would say first to put it in full context, Peter. What the president was critical of

was the way that the former president put out, I believe, a xenophobic tweet, and how

he called what he called the coronavirus, and who he directed it at. The president has

not been critical of travel restrictions. We have put those in place ourselves. We put

them in place ourselves in the spring. But no, he does not believe. He believes we should

have followed the advice of health and medical experts. That's exactly what he did in putting

in place these restrictions over the weekend.

Ah, okay. You see, it wasn't what Trump did, but how he did it. The White House is now

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