Barred From U.S. Under Trump, Muslims Exult in Bidenâs Open Door Few foreigners welcomed President Bidenâs election victory as enthusiastically as the tens of thousands of Muslims who have been locked out of the United States for the past four years. A protest in New York in 2017 in opposition to President Donald J. Trumpâs executive order preventing people from several majority Muslim countries from entering the country.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times Jan. 23, 2021 NAIROBI, Kenya â As the results of the American presidential election rolled in on Nov. 4, a young Sudanese couple sat up through the night in their small town south of Khartoum, eyes glued to the television as state tallies were declared, watching anxiously. They had a lot riding on the outcome.