# Why is Chad left Hanging? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 26, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342 "2017-09-26T11:42:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/1 "2017-09-26T11:42:21Z")
For some reason, Chad is included in Trump’s new travel ban. Experts don’t know why: > **[Why has Trump restricted visas from Chad? Experts are puzzled](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/travel-ban-why-has-trump-restricted-visas-chad-experts-are-n804466)** > > President Donald Trump’s decision to restrict visas for citizens of Chad has left experts wondering why that nation was chosen over others in the region. > [@](#): > > LONDON — President Donald Trump’s decision to include Chad in the latest travel ban has baffled experts who are wondering why the African nation was chosen over others in the region. > > The new presidential order renews restrictions on five of the six countries previously targeted — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen — and adds North Korea, Venezuela and Chad. Sudan has dropped off the list. > > “It’s a head-scratcher and also strange for diplomatic reasons,” Michael Shurkin, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, said. “In terms of security, Chad is actually relatively capable.” > > Out of all the countries in the Sahel, as that area of Africa is known, Chad has a reasonably close partnership with the U.S. > > It has cooperated extensively in the fight against terror, and specifically against the African terror group Boko Haram. This summer, Chad hosted for the third time a 20-nation military exercise, organized by the U.S. African Command, aimed at strengthening local security forces. And the U.S. recently opened a new $300 million embassy in the capital, N’Djamena. > > … > > Trump’s proclamation said that “Chad does not adequately share public-safety and terrorism-related information and fails to satisfy at least one key risk criterion.” > > It also mentioned the presence of several terrorist groups in the region, including elements of Boko Haram, ISIS-West Africa, and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. > Analysts say these factors are present in a number of countries both in Africa and around the world and are not unique to Chad. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/2 "2017-09-26T11:48:18Z")
Maybe he thought he was banning Nickelback? ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/3 "2017-09-26T11:50:48Z")
Why is Chad left hanging? Probably because some guy named Chad gave Trump a wedgie when they were in boarding school. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/4 "2017-09-26T12:06:17Z")
Probably because they hacked the 2000 US Presidential elections. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/5 "2017-09-26T12:38:43Z")
A $300 million dollar embassy? That’s 3% of the GDP of Chad. How is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/6 "2017-09-26T12:41:21Z")
Black and majority muslim. And they have oil. They should thank their lucky stars that Trump did not nuke them. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/7 "2017-09-26T13:08:33Z")
Yeah, but Sudan and lots of other North African countries are black and majority Muslim, yet Trump doesn’t seem to care. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/8 "2017-09-26T13:50:22Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Yeah, but Sudan and lots of other North African countries are black and majority Muslim, yet Trump doesn’t seem to care. Chad may have been the only one whose name Trump could remember. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/9 "2017-09-26T13:53:07Z")
Trump has spent a lot of time on Reddit’s Incel board and knows how bad “Chads” are. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/10 "2017-09-26T14:02:47Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > Probably because they hacked the 2000 US Presidential elections. Is Al Gore an advisor to trump now? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/11 "2017-09-26T14:10:56Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Yeah, but Sudan and lots of other North African countries are black and majority Muslim, yet Trump doesn’t seem to care. Give him time. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/12 "2017-09-26T14:16:07Z")
I was baffled by North Korea. Do we not already have a a ban on travel from there? If not, why not? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/13 "2017-09-26T14:18:42Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Chad may have been the only one whose name Trump could remember. Nigeria was on the list, but then Trump got an email saying a long lost Great Uncle had left him money. Niger was taken off since he had promised Kelly-Ann he would not use the N-Word again. Sudan was removed for the same reason; McMaster told him what the name means. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/14 "2017-09-26T14:28:42Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I was baffled by North Korea. Do we not already have a a ban on travel from there? Yes. But they’re not a Muslim country, like the others, so it was an easy way to distract from this latest version of his Muslim ban. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/15 "2017-09-26T15:03:39Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Black and majority muslim. And they have oil. They should thank their lucky stars that Trump did not nuke them. You don’t nuke countries with oil. You invade, install a puppet government, hand out sweetheart deals to your oil companies, and rob the place blind. Sheesh, don’t you know anything about colonialism? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/16 "2017-09-26T15:22:37Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Yes. But they’re not a Muslim country, like the others, so it was an easy way to distract from this latest version of his Muslim ban. Could very well be. I’m sure they purposely put a few non-Muslim countries on the list, and maybe NK was just an easy one to add that couldn’t provoke any additional controversy. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/17 "2017-09-26T15:42:22Z")
Same reason Dubya added them to the “Axis of Evil”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/18 "2017-09-26T16:08:32Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Sudan was removed for the same reason; McMaster told him what the name means. Trump interrupted him and said “I know what it means. It’s when you do something quickly.” ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/19 "2017-09-26T16:42:15Z")
Could be anything. Maybe the president of Chad got three scoops of ice cream at the UN banquet while Trump only got two. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342/20 "2017-09-26T18:04:06Z")
Maybe “Yesterday’s Gone” was playing in the background when he showed up alone at the Senior Prom? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-chad-left-hanging/797342.md?page=2)