that the election won't literally be front and center next season. She said, “When Ryan had to make the announcement originally that the season was going to deal with Trump, I think it’s more about what’s going on in our world around us,” meaning that the election and its aftermath will inform the show, notbe The listening session came hours ahead of a town hall meeting hosted by CNN. That meeting will be attended by several of theoutspoken Stoneman studentsbut President Trumpdeclined an invitation to attend the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida “I do remember the numbing fear that overcame my family and the Muslim American community in the years that followed.” For her parents, who had Sudanese passports, there was a “fear of immobility” that extended to Ismail and her siblings, whose American passports may “do next to nothing to protect us.”