Gone quiet · last update Dec 31, 2025 / Donald Trump
Trump's travel bans, from the June 2025 order to its expansion
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
In June 2025 President Donald Trump ordered a travel ban that fully barred entry from 12 countries and partly restricted seven others, expanding a policy from his first term.[1][2]In December the administration expanded the restrictions to 20 more countries and the Palestinian Authority, effective January 1, 2026.[3][4]
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In December the administration expanded the restrictions to 20 more countries and the Palestinian Authority, effective January 1, 2026.[3][4]
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)
39%0%
Mar 20252026this week
LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 5 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (6 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
In March 2025 the administration considered sweeping restrictions for dozens of countries,[5] and the order issued in June took effect on June 9.[1][2] Afghans who had worked for the US during the war urged Trump to exempt them.[6] In December Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called for a ban on "every damn country that's flooding our nation with killers, leeches and entitlement junkies,"[7] and said the list would grow to more than 30.[8] The expansion doubled the number of countries affected,[3] and some African countries answered with their own bans on US citizens.[4]
