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Congresswoman Maxine Waters suggested that Donald Trump should consider deporting his wife, Melania Trump, while criticizing his administration's immigration policies.

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[–] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 183 points 4 days ago (9 children)

I wouldn’t put it past him to deport her and get a new, younger trophy wife…

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 45 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Is his daughter still an option? Some laws might need to change but no biggie.

[–] MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago

Who cares about laws. An executive order will do the job /s

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I think it's still legal in more states for cousins to marry as long as they're hetero, so I think he'd have to EO something if he doesn't want to pick his marriage venue carefully.

Eric would be pissed at losing his inheritance.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah well, I'm pretty certain the global net number of shits the human populous gives about Eric Trump is zero.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Who the fuck is this Eric Trump?

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

As long as it's an Official Act when he's banging her he can't be prosecuted

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[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 36 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A Golden Shower girl, perhaps.

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 15 points 4 days ago

A Golden Girl, shower, perhaps.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Honestly that would be fucking hilarious. I would love to see how the evangelicals try to spin that.

[–] FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe 15 points 4 days ago

If his new wife is either American or German then they’d just say he’s has a real and proper wife now

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They would say Trump is in a biblical relationship, after all Lot fucked his daughters according to their bible.

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[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago

Aren't they doing poly yet, or is that the wrong Christian nutters?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Cheaper way to divorce.

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[–] Mvlad88@lemmy.world 165 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Turns out this whole thing is Trumps desperate attempt to get rid of his wife.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 90 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The last time that happened, they invented the Church of England

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

Great minds think alike ;)

[–] CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This aligns well with Clarence Thomas seeking to get rid of his wife by setting the stage for interracial marriage to become illegal.

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Can't honestly blame him for wanting to ditch that crazy bitch. Never stick your dick in crazy, Clarence....

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 17 points 4 days ago

We had one like that. Henry VIII.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Greatest plot twist in history.

[–] legion02@lemmy.world 123 points 4 days ago (4 children)

And Barron loses his birthright citizenship too right?

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So, he should be dropped at the bottom of the harbour?

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

What, and pollute the harbour?

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Her father was charged with tax fraud in the former Yugoslavia and he was a fucking communist party member.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Trumplethinskin is, unfortunately, a Natural Born American Citizen and is Barron's legal father and thus Barron has birthright citizenship.

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[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@lemmy.ca 50 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Stop wasting our time with these articles. They're deporting people because of white supremacy, not because they suddenly really care about immigration law which they are ignoring by black bagging people anyways.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Agreed. What point was she even trying to make? Hypocrisy? I swear to God liberals are more helpful to fascism than conservatives are at this point. Their "opposition" is so weak it has to be in bad faith.

Fascist don't give a fuck about a liberals perception of hypocrisy. It's like trying to debate lord your way out of a Nazi death camp just waiting for the fascist to concede to your "superior argument".

The "debate lord" days are over. Fascist ideas won out. We need real material planning not these one liners. Even the right wing debate lords are dying out. No one wants to see Jordan Peterson "DESTROY a Liberal" anymore. Not even right wingers. They are much to happy watching Asmondgold cheer for deporting immigrants and bombing brown kids. The era of the "dumb guy" saying "well that's just common sense" is upon us.

They are done listening to anything liberals have to say. They are far too distracted by enjoying watching "justice" happen to the people that the Democrats ALSO alienated the last election.

This is what no dialects does to liberals. They have no feedback between ideas and material conditions to even recognize the shift. They are still fighting like it's 2008. We'll decline further into fascism as they pretend like they are resisting it.

They had a chance to go a different route with Bernie and they completely blocked it. So now it's too late. Even too late to take Bernie's route.

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 78 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I get the impression that Melania would be fine with that - that she'd take any excuse to be as far as possible away from that stinky lump of congealed fat and bronzer.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 88 points 4 days ago (4 children)

She's had 8 years to leave. She's just as bad as he is. Remember her wearing a jacket with "I really don't care" in giant letters ~6 years ago when Trump was separating children from their parents and then losing the children?

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 22 points 4 days ago

Nobody's as bad as he is, but she's certainly an awful human.

But that's not really relevant. It's just that from what I've seen, she tries to stay as far away from him as possible - preferably in another state. So I assume being given an excuse to be in a different coutry would be okay by her.

[–] drhodl@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

She can't leave until Pootin tells her to...

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

If you look at it, she's deeply in hate with him. I could see her staying just to torture him.

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[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Then she makes a documentary with Netflix that exposes Trump's dirty laundry

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

From what I learn about her from the first term is that she is no better than him.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"I really don't care do you?"

Wearing that while going to meet immigrant children.

Classy lady...

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[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

Soiled diapers

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Hopefully ICE will be as overzealous as usual and deport the whole family.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (3 children)

$10 he deports her and marries that Alina Habba cunt or whatever her name is.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 16 points 4 days ago

I'll double it. $20.

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Melania Trump, like Musk, seems to have worked in the US prior to having authorization. That does mean she could be stripped of her citizenship.

But Waters seems very confused, as Melania Trump was not born in the US. Looking at her parents' document status has nothing to do with her citizenship.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Since Trump is trying to end birthright citizenship, her parents citizenship status actually would matter.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Don't threaten, do. Ice, prove you're impartial. Forcibly remove the first lady from the united states. And her anchor babies

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 12 points 4 days ago

Congresswoman Waters, thank you very much for continuing to be who you are, and doing an impeccable job.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

She came in on an' extraordinary talent' visa. I wonder what her talent was. Not modeling.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 6 points 4 days ago

I think we all know what her talent was.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago
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