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Something that a pre-teen would think think of.
Man I hope when he kicks the bucket, his wife comes out with a bunch of dirt, and talks shit about him.🙏
My wife and I often talk about how he is just so opposite obama. On the one side you had an educated, hip, young (for a president), classy president in pretty good shape with one bad habit (smoking) and on the other you have the purchased degreed, lame, old, tacky, fat president with no end of bad habits. His meme postings are the online tech equivalent of fart noises.
His wife is 100% in on the scam and just as bad as he is.
Please go talk to a real person, because this is the kind of shit you're supposed to share with your close friends so they can say, "Jesus dude are you okay?"
The 3 people who liked this comment need to be investigated
His wife is a foreigner. America is for Americans.
Unless you’re native, we ARE the foreigners, Goofy. Immigrants created the “America” you’re so adamantly defending and our melting pot of citizens only makes us stronger. Diverse food, intelligence, and cultures will make America great again. Not a bunch of crusty old xenophobic white people.
I'm about 25% native American, the rest is a mix of Irish, German, French, Scandinavian, and Misc. Realistically I'm compromised of many of the groups that got fucked over by this country and\or the people whose backs it was built on, and have military service in nearly every generation of my family back to the French and Indian war. I am America. The good, the bad, the oppressed, the oppressor, and everything in between.
Trump is a nepo baby who's Dad was a Nazi supporting KKK member. He will never be an American, and his inability to maintain relationships with American women showcases that.
A LEGAL immigrant and she has been a U.S. citizen for over 19 years.
Yea? What was the visa she came over on?
So... you are actually saying that your problem is that trump is NOT anti-immigrant enough?
She was here on an H-1B which is specifically designed to cover specialized knowledge/skills which, in her case, was fashion modeling. You can argue that she wasn't "special" enough in terms of appearance but it was fairly common for fashion models to be issued them
There are a lot of reasons to hate that mother fucker. But maybe we can do that without parroting the chud talking points? Or do. It is always great when people show their asses.
Lol, wearing clothes and walking for a few hundred feet is a specialized knowledge or skill?
That was the best fucking lie he could come up with? When was the last time she actually had a modeling job? Typically your H1B doesn't last indefinitely when you're not longer performing your job.
EB-1 Genius Visa:
This visa is for individuals with extraordinary ability in fields such as science, arts, education, business, or athletics, or for outstanding professors, researchers, and multinational managers
"a 1998 law change to the EB-1 program did allow for certain models and celebrities to qualify by demonstrating national or international acclaim."
What would you say her international acclaim was?
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/02/melania-trump-einstein-visa/
It is unclear exactly what visa she had but the EB-1 is not "the genius visa". It is sometimes called that but a better statement is "extraordinary abilities" visa.
Do I think melania demonstrated extraordinary abilities in her being friends with a casting director and old enough to sell cigarettes but look young enough that the target demographic (kids) would still be attracted to her? I don't know and I don't care
Because, having assisted with a LOT of paperwork over the years? It is almost always about just making a fat enough folder that nobody reads beyond the list of documents that meet whatever requirements. And you generally pick one based on the nationality of the applicant, what your lawyer is willing to attempt, and what advantages you have by nature of the company's "status"
But what I do know? She is far from the only model to get an EB-1 (or H1-B). So you can argue that immigration needs an overhaul (and considering the verbiage... trump is probably your man) but she really doesn't show any signs of being an exception. She was just a model that had connections and looked younger than she was. Which... explains a lot about who she would end up associating with but that has very little to do with immigration.
I hold people to the standard of the rhetoric they use towards others, particularly their rhetoric towards the less fortunate.
Trump is an embarrassment void of all value and worth, particularly when viewed through that lense.
To put it another way, if Trump applied his own standards to himself, his wife and several of his kids wouldn't be US citizens, and they would be subject to deportation with no due process and various other abuses. If it weren't for Trump's money and relationships with other high profile pedos, he would have been in prison decades ago... If he were lucky.