I Know This Seems Petty, But …
Okay, with all the totally insane stuff going on in the White House this week, this is hardly a bleep on the Oh Crap Meter.
But it just ticked me off. It gushes of white privilege and talking money.
The Washington Post is reporting that Melania Trump got “an Einstein visa.”
In March 2001, she was granted a green card in the elite EB-1 program, which was designed for renowned academic researchers, multinational business executives or those in other fields, such as Olympic athletes and Oscar-winning actors, who demonstrated “sustained national and international acclaim.”
“We called it the Einstein visa,” said Bruce Morrison, a former Democratic congressman and chairman of the House subcommittee that wrote the Immigration Act of 1990 defining EB-1.
The story gives examples of why she really did not qualify for the special visa at the time.
See, this is what hacks me off about the whole bunch of them at the Trump White House. They truly believe they are special.
Thanks to Pam for the heads up.
March 2001?
1Wasn’t that early days in the Bush Administration?
Melania may have looked like a genius compared to some of the decision makers at the time…
JJ,
2Maybe Momma knows what it was that Melanomia could do real, real good? You know, way better than a couple of ex-wives, anyway.
I’m betting it’s based on how she looks in a fur bikini, crawling across Donnie’s airplane seats.
3As usual, I haven’t checked, but I still wonder… whether her parents are here in the USA due to the cursed family allowance visa which is now being criticized by the Trumpster.
4I just saw video of Mom and Dad the other day. Don’t know if the landscape is White House-ish or Eastern European-ish.
Just wondering. Wouldn’t surprise me.
As soon as she married an American, the whole issue got moot. son person and his buddies have seen the flesh photos she did in younger years and as a group admit they should enough special abilities. But damn it! This was and still is a corruption of the immigration program, most especially by people of $$ and power. Not the hungry and impoverished yearning to breathe free.
5Unless she’s actually attracted to captain combover, that oscar winning actress thing may have legs.
6Einstein she ain’t! Of course, she does do a good job of reading to the public the statements that her staff writes for her. They are, mercifully, short. And she models super-expensive clothes very well. Otherwise … well, never mind!
7“In the 2000 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, Melania Knauss, girlfriend of Donald Trump, was photographed in a bikini hugging a six-foot inflatable whale. Then she got an “Einstein visa.”
….gut instincts are primal screaming that Trump used Rudy Guilliani’s link to FBI insider Rudy boasts about…which is how this Einstein visa” magically appeared.
My upstairs neighbor is an Einstein Visa recipient… a war refugee Rhodes Scholar whom no one wants to see in a bikini but is precious on every other level!!
8Ms Knauss got her Einstein on for her genius in being able to find Trump’s family jewels.
9Maggie, I dont believe that marrying a US citizen absolutely guarantees citizenship. I believe that she is a citizen now, however she got it might be locked in a drawer somewhere. That being said, if she is to be forgiven for her nudie and soft porn shots “from the past”, then why is Al Franken’s booby-snatching so important, as that was also “in the past”.
10You have to wonder who her sponsor er sugar daddy was, and how US INS was paid off. Some detective work needed to find out who issued the EB-12, where the application is buried, and on basis it was granted.
11And her parents are absolutely here by the “chain immigration” that the Orange idiot has stopped. Guess they should be sent back immediately as he wants to do with the others.
Remember when the conservatives had kittens over Mrs. Obama’s mother living in the White House? Now we have communists (yes – daddy is) living in the WHITE HOUSE.
12I guess her exposure in GQ counts as a major exhibition.
13Not petty at all.
14Karen, yes! Wasn’t that a scandal, though? Imagine a grandmother helping out with the grandkids! Down-right unAmerican.
15The thing is, I don’t think they believe they’re special. That category isn’t even on the map for them, they only care about what you can get away with – gold medal, Nobel Prize, million dollar bribe, casting couch, it’s all them same to them. Complete amorality, thanks to Gordon Gekko propaganda.
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