From today’s Washington Post:
THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump is the do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do president. For years, he ripped Barack Obama for taking summer vacations to Martha’s Vineyard and told voters he’d be too busy governing to golf if he got elected. On Thursday, Trump hit the links again on his 11-day summer vacation in New Jersey.
As he did so, his Slovenian in-laws attended a naturalization ceremony in Manhattan. Viktor and Amalija Knavs were able to become U.S. citizens because their daughter, Melania, sponsored them. Trump decries this form of family reunification and has moved aggressively to block other parents from following their children to America.
It’s part of the president’s campaign to reduce the flow of illegal and legal immigrants, even though three of his son Barron’s four grandparents came to this country via what he denigrates as “chain migration.”
The White House declined to answer questions about whether this is hypocritical. “They are not part of the administration,” Stephanie Grisham, a spokeswoman for the first lady, said of the Knavses.
But the Trump team has also declined to answer specific questions about Melania’s pathway to citizenship. She got a green card in 2001, five years after arriving in the states to model and one year after she started dating the celebrity billionaire, through a program that was intended to help academic geniuses, corporate executives, Olympic athletes and Oscar-winning actors. “The year she got her legal residency, only five people from Slovenia received green cards under the EB-1 program,” David Nakamura notes.
In August 2016, The Donald announced to great fanfare that his wife would hold a news conference “over the next couple of weeks” to reply to accusations that she violated immigration laws when she first arrived. Melania, he promised, would offer proof that “she came in totally legally.”
Like the tax returns Trump also pledged to release, it never materialized.
There’s nothing wrong with golfing, vacationing or entering the U.S. through legal channels, but yesterday brought another blow to Trump’s credibility as a messenger on the immigration issue.
I would feel sorry for Melania if she wasn’t screwing that orange baboon while he was still married to someone else.
Denigration by animal comparisons. How easily you forget.
Wrong is wrong, whether one uses animal metaphors or not. Trump is bad news, no matter how one characterizes his immorality. I see no need to denigrate our President, Harlan.
He already came into the position pre-denigrated and self-dengirated just by him being him, letting it all hang out, brightly lit up for everyone to see, hear, and retweet.
Despite what you think is your conservatism, not even I, for one, can possible believe for one minute that you are Trump supporter, Harlan. It just does not seem like you.
I mean, you do want and need those SS payments that come to you every month, don’t you?
Reblogged this on Lloyd Lofthouse and commented:
Every individual that still supports Donald Trump is willingly blind, deaf, and mute, and/or a total hypocrite — ignorance is no excuse.
New word: hypercrite?
It is reassuring to know that Melania has “extraordinary ability in sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, coming to the States to continue the work in the same field, and work will benefit the U.S,” which are the qualifying attributes for an EB-1 visa. That is why she can “Be Best,” and we can all see how extraordinary her talents are. Melania is a beautiful, tall woman, extraordinary, not so much.
Here is a link for a Korean drama about: in a small town, there are judge, prosecutor, detective, businessmen, banking leaders and gangster leader work together to control and to kill other defended lawyers and people who are against them.
https://www.viki.com/tv/35833c-lawless-lawyer
There are 16 episodes in total. My mother advised her children that we must stay away and move away from evils. Most of all, do not involve or tangle with evils because we will face a danger or be framed of crime that they do then blame on us.
Today, I witness the current US President and his devilish administration from Supreme Court, FBI, CIA, all departments heads including Education Minister are depicted in this drama.
Americans need more lawless lawyers like the one in this drama in all States in America. Definitely, Americans need to be cultivate the difference in character, aspiration and personality between the main character in lawless lawyer drama and Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Cuomo,plus many current US lawless lawyers Senators. Back2basic
“… another blow to his credibility…”
That horse left the barn years ago.
What is absolutely sick and disheartening are the gop congress(white)men who are too scared to speak up.
Maybe Mueller wants to talk to the Manhattan Madame becasue these congress(white)men have all prostituted themselves to this souless president.
He doesn’t care about them, the people who elected him, or anyone but those who sign loyalty oaths. Yet – they just keep silent or kissing up to him. vote those suckers out.
I am off topic, please don’t let me interrupt, but when you finish your book, Diane, I would appreciate the opportunity to bid for a signed copy. Or two.
I have a word to describe Donald Trump:
skeazy
That would be sketchy + sleazy.
I have another one:
embarrassing