^ what I tried to say above, and maybe I wasn’t clear is that 1° parents with children who want to go to the US are etremely worried and won’t be “calmed down” no matter what rationales you offer, even when you calmly eplain that even if a state voted red, they had other reasons than their candidate’s inflamatory rhetorics (to give you an idea, I had a family ask me point-blank whether Americans would consider it “open season on Black boys” and in the end, it wasn’t a question, they were just making a statement to me and making demands - because images from the past collide with words from the present) 2° it’s not just actions the white house may or may not take: a deteriorated image is hard to build back up; it’s hard to be abroad right now I can tell you.
It’ll take a while to get better for the US but it can be done; it’ll take a nice, long, peaceful period to reassure international parents.