Trump's Muslim Travel Ban Idea Drowns Out Obama's Terrorism Speech

In a rare speech from the Oval Office Sunday night, President Barack Obama vowed to overcome the Islamic State and cautioned that "we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate." Less than 24 hours later, leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump undermined Obama's pro-Muslim overtures by instead proposing a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

That's not to say Obama's speech didn't make a big splash; it did, at least while he held the nation's attention. The speech ranked among Google's top 10 trending subjects on Sunday (with 200,000+ searches) and garnered over 60,000 related tweets, according to social analytics site Topsy. Yet, while interest in the president's remarks quickly faded thereafter, Trump's notion of a Muslim travel ban has continued to spark sustained conversation on Twitter.