Out of context Facts easily Fudged, Conveniently forgotten

Showman’s Rhetoric craftily Conceals where and from whom he came

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.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks “on Modernizing Our Immigration System for a Stronger America” May 16, 2019

“My plan,” the president said, “expedites relief for legitimate asylum seekers by screening out the meritless claims.  …

“We cherish the open door that we want to create for our country, but a big proportion of those immigrants must come in through merit and skill.” (emphasis added)

Let’s take a look at the master showman’s ancestral-immigrant merit and skill. 

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he Scots 

The mother of the 45th president of the United States of America arrived in 1930 as a “dirt poor” economic immigrant, having lived in “‘indescribably filthy’” conditions “characterized by ‘human wretchedness’” in her homeland.

She had been raised in a Scottish Gaelic-speaking household. In the U.S., English was her second language, Gaelic her primary language.

She lacked (and apparently never obtained) secondary or college-level education (completing only up to grade 8 in Scotland).

She had no profession or special skills training and worked as a New York City maid or nanny.

The language she spoke in the years she traveled to and from her Scottish homeland was Gaelic.

Though 1940 census entries reportedly lied about her immigrant status, she did not become a naturalized U.S. citizen until twelve years after she had declared to U.S. immigration authorities on entry that she intended to become a U.S. citizen.

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he Germans

Natives of Kallstadt, Germany (orig. part of Kingdom of Bavaria), Friedrich (Frederick) Trump (barber, hotel manager, owner of real estate (1869–1918), wife Elisabeth Trump née Christ (businesswoman) (1880–1966) are grandparents of multi-millionaire, Donald John Trump, the current U.S. president.

Donald Trump’s German grandfather of the 1800s came in search of gold during the “Klondike Gold Rush.” Granddad returned to Germany to take a German bride, who later longed for her homeland. But on return they found German authorities had other ideas. Presumably they wanted no part of a male German believed to have “left Germany in order to avoid” military service.

Descendant Donald John Trump also never saw war; though, as president (when he is not immigrant bashing), he eagerly engages endlessly in foreign hostilities, wars from afar, and sends other sons and daughters (many of them immigrants) into wars with many nations.

News reports have found that “President Donald Trump (in his military service eligibility years) received military draft deferments five times — once for bad feet and four times for college” ; and that very likely …

“… A Queens podiatrist who rented office space” from Donald John Trump’s father (Fred Trump) “might have given” the military–service avoidance “diagnosis as a courtesy to his father.” (emphasis added in paragraphs)

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elfishness trumps a showman’s refusal to go to war—to risk, to sacrifice—on moral grounds, on grounds of universal human caring and concern, on fundamental principle.

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elf-centeredness trumps Truth.   

Source

White House “Remarks by President Trump on Modernizing Our Immigration System for a Stronger America” Immigration Issued on: May 16, 2019 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-modernizing-immigration-system-stronger-america/

Wikipedia

Trump Family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_family

Mary Anne MacLeod Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_MacLeod_Trump

Frederick Christ Trump, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump

Elisabeth Christ Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Christ_Trump

Friedrich Trump https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump

Kallstadt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallstadt

Business Insider “Donald Trump avoided the military draft 5 times, but it wasn't uncommon for young men from influential families to do so during the Vietnam War” by Mariana Alfaro December 26, 2018 https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-avoided-the-military-draft-which-was-common-at-the-time-vietnam-war-2018-12

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Lunacy that shames (my apology to) Bellevue Inmates!

Bring on the straitjacket! Maybe some asylum will claim him!

“Democracy Now!” today rebroadcasts some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Friday outbursts in England “that immigrants fleeing violence and seeking asylum in Europe are changing ‘the fabric of Europe’ — ‘and I don’t mean that in a positive way.’”

Really!

What about Mr. Trump’s immigrants—those who are not cleaning his toilets, though one of them might have, fighting his foreign wars, caddying on his golf courses, playing on his favorite sports teams, and picking his oranges?

Adjectives aside, REMEMBER this

Donald J. Trump’s mother, Mary Anne (née MacLeod)Trump, was born in Scotland (1930 immigrant, naturalized citizen1942)

Donald J. Trump’s first wife, Ivana Marie (née Zelníčková)Trump), was born in Czechoslovakia (1976 immigrant, naturalized citizen 1988)

Donald J. Trump’s second wife, Melanija Knavs (Melania Knauss) Trump, was born in Yugoslavia (1996 immigrant, 2001 permanent resident, naturalized citizen 2006, a year after marrying Donald J. Trump).

And not one of these family members, as far as I can tell, was a scientific researcher, a discoverer of cures for disease. None were teachers. None made great contributions either to their countries of origin or to the country they adopted.  

Yet U.S. President Trump maligns one who did: the London-born Mayor of Pakistani parentage

London Mayor Sadiq Aman Khan was born in St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London. He is Britain-bred and has distinguished himself far above any preferred company of the U.S. president.

Sadiq Aman Khan is a man of working class parentage who has stacked up a stellar record of public service and academic achievement. Mr. Trump never has and never will!  

I like Sadiq Khan’s retort to the Trumpian insults: 

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f you hadn’t been there, we wouldn’t be here.”

Unbecoming any head of state, Mr. Trump suffers insensibility and selective forgetfulness of history and current events: British colonialism; British, French and North American suppression, plunder and endless wars and provocations throughout Africa and Asia, driving people to flee for life and livelihood.

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he honorable Mr. Kahn:

Before being seated as London’s mayor, Sadiq Aman Khan was a lawyer, first a trainee solicitor at a law firm specializing in legal aid cases then a law partner (1997) specializing in human rights law. His preparation included reading Law at the University of North London (now London Metropolitan University) and then completing his law degree (1991). He took his Law Society finals at the College of Law in Guildford.

Before entering the House of Commons, Khan represented Tooting as a Councilor for the London Borough of Wandsworth “and was granted the title of Honorary Alderman of Wandsworth upon his retirement from local politics.” Between 2005 and 2016, he was a Member of Parliament (MP, Tooting). In 2016, he became London’s Mayor.

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adiq Aman Khan is a British politician whose “grandparents migrated from the United Provinces of then-British India to Pakistan” after the two countries were partitioned. Kahn’s mother and father arrived in London from Pakistan in 1968 (the former became a seamstress, the latter a bus driver). Kahn was born in 1970. He is one of eight siblings.

Humility is required.

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side from willful ignorance, selective forgetfulness, disconnect from reality, and/or creeping senility, there is just no excuse for the U.S. president’s outbursts. And even these conditions are not excuses nor do they excuse. Embarrassing does not begin to describe the unspeakable, indeed criminal, idiocy, insult littered performance of a U.S. president as he stumbles his way, seemingly drunkenly, through Europe.

Humility is required particularly of those so demonstrably afflicted with severe mental and moral, professional and experiential deficiencies.

Sources

Democracy Now! July 13, 2018 News pegs

“In U.K., Trump Insults Theresa May, Praises Far-Right Boris Johnson (recently resigned as UK’s foreign secretary), Attacks London’s Muslim Mayor…: In an explosive interview with the Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid The Sun … (U.S. President Donald) Trump claimed that Britain is losing its culture due to immigration….” July 13, 2018 https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/13/in_uk_trump_insults_theresa_may

“Meet the Activist Who Called Piers Morgan an ‘Idiot’ for Criticizing Anti-Trump Protests in Britain” July 13, 2018 https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/13/meet_the_activist_who_called_piers

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_MacLeod_Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_K han

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