Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday we look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. “We don’t want them in our country” said US President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Who was he talking about? I’ll give you a clue: it’s not albino alligators. Trump’s views on melanin-challenged reptiles are unknown, at least to me, but Claude, who lived in San Francisco, was hugely popular – as seen in the countless news reports around the world following his death. The Trump administration has suspended all immigration applications from 19 countries deemed to be high-risk a few days after a fatal shooting involving an Afghan national, the US Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday. The Tribune de Genève reported on Wednesday how the suspension applies to people from the 12 countries whose nationals have not been allowed to travel to the United States since June and to nationals ...
