On Sunday, Starbucks announced the company wouldhire 10,000 refugees worldwideover the next five years as a response to President Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees from entering the U.S. By Monday morning, calls to ban Starbucks had spread on Twitter, with users urging caffeine addicts to get their fix elsewhere, with the hashtag, #BanStarbucks.
Supporters of Trump’s order, which temporarily blocks refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., called out Starbucks for being overtly political, and taking away jobs from Americans and veterans. However, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said the effort to help refugees in the U.S. will focus on hiring those who served with the U.S. military as interpreters and other support personnel.
Starbucks operates more than 24,000 stores in 70 countries around the world, including several in the Middle East, though none in the countries listed in Trump’s executive order.
@Starbucks Since you’ve decide to hire the very people who hate us I will never enter or drink another Starbucks Coffee #banstarbucks
— The Marshall (@mlstacy1313) January 30, 2017
Starbucks should be doing coffee, not politics #banstarbucks pic.twitter.com/QHVxEAEmvd
— Wybo Kortmann (@WyboKortmann) January 30, 2017
@Starbucks How about hiring 10,000 American vets? #banstarbucks go to Duncan Donuts instead
— G.H.Sarjos ? (@GoranSarjos) January 30, 2017
@Starbucks Since you’ve decide to hire the very people who hate us I will never enter or drink another Starbucks Coffee #banstarbucks
— The Marshall (@mlstacy1313) January 30, 2017
#BanStarbucks #BuyDunkin https://t.co/gZgX3pFrR9
— Deplorable Infidel (@Dplrabl_Infidel) January 30, 2017
#BanStarbucks they stand accused of being unamerican…want to hire refugees and keep illegal dreamers here on U.S. soil. ?
— DG (@DG8151769) January 30, 2017
@NBCPhiladelphia @Starbucks 10,000 less tax paying Americans who may need the job are being told screw you. This is why Trump is President #MAGA #BanStarbucks
— Pessimist Prime (@PessPrime) January 30, 2017
