Donald Trump is expected to put a new travel ban in place this week

Trump is expected to sign a new executive order as early as Monday of this week.

US president Donald Trump is expected to implement another travel ban this week, only weeks after his original travel ban caused chaos and controversy in the US and around the world.

According to a report in Politico which cites senior government sources familiar with the matter, Trump will sign a new executive order on the travel ban at the Department of Homeland Security this week.

Trump's initial executive order, which was put in place on 27 January, temporarily banned banning people from seven predominantly Muslim countries – Libya, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Yemen and Somalia – from entering the country.

The order also barred the entry of refugees for 90 days and indefinitely barred the entry of refugees from Syria and as it was rolled out with little or no warning, it was the cause of mass protest as well as chaos at airports throughout the world.

The ban was suspended by a Washington state district court judge on 3 February, with an appeals court later declining to block the decision of the Washington judge.

Trump was always likely to revisit the ban and it would appear as if he is about to do so sooner rather than later; it is as yet unclear whether there will be significant changes to the order banned by the Washington state district court judge.

The travel ban will also divert attention from the controversy surrounding the Trump regime’s connections with Russia and the reaction to Trump’s suggestions over the weekend that his phones in Trump Tower were tapped by Barack Obama shortly before his victory in the presidential election last year.