text: Trump is explicitly banning refugees from Muslim countries  as of now with an executive order Christians are officially preferred. It is now official U.S.  Government Policy. So it is much more than a strategy of differentiation in the political marketplace as you have claimed.  
  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/us-politics/donald-trump-refugees-syria-executive-order/article33809191/
  This one inconvenient fact (among others) undermines your entire Trump apologist argument and strengthens that of the article.