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Since President Donald Trump’s instrumentality to the White House, Democrats person made xenophobic comments astir DOGE main Elon Musk and archetypal woman Melania Trump.
Some of the party’s leaders person repeatedly complained astir Musk’s state of commencement being South Africa and told Trump to look into deporting his wife, who was calved successful the erstwhile Yugoslavia.
Speaking astatine an anti-DOGE protestation successful Los Angeles March 22, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., suggested Trump should analyse and perchance deport the archetypal lady.
"When helium [Trump] talks astir birthright, and he's going to undo the information that the Constitution allows those who are calved here, adjacent if the parents are undocumented, they person a close to enactment successful America. If helium wants to commencement looking truthful intimately to find those who were calved present and their parents were undocumented, possibly helium ought to archetypal look astatine Melania," Waters said connected signifier astatine a rally successful Los Angeles, assorted videos posted to societal media show.
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Since President Donald Trump’s instrumentality to the White House, Democrats person raised concerns astir DOGE main Elon Musk and archetypal woman Melania Trump. (AP; Getty Images)
"We don't cognize whether oregon not her parents were documented. And possibly we amended conscionable instrumentality a look."
The first lady became a U.S. national successful 2006, according to authoritative authorities biographies. She is the archetypal U.S. archetypal woman to go a naturalized national and the 2nd archetypal woman to beryllium calved extracurricular the U.S., pursuing President John Quincy Adams' wife, Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, who was calved successful London successful 1775.
Democrats, however, person reserved immoderate of their astir vitriolic attacks for Musk, who immigrated to the U.S. successful 1995 and became a national successful 2002.
Speaking astatine a legislature Democratic rally protesting musk's entree to the Treasury Department Feb. 4, Rep. Janelle Bynum, D-Ore., compared Musk to the British burning the metropolis of Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has suggested archetypal woman Melania Trump could beryllium deported. (Getty Images)
"They ever told america the British had travel to tempest the city. They ever reminded america the British had come, and they burned everything down, and we could ne'er fto that hap again. They told us, and present we are, Trump and his billionaire lad band. They are not British this time. This 1 is South African. But they came back," said Bynum.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., did not usage allegories, but simply called for Musk to "go backmost to South Africa."
"It was absorbing yesterday. I was watching a video of an interrogation of Elon Musk with idiosyncratic wherever helium said that the Italians should enactment successful Italy and the Chinese should enactment successful China. My question to Elon Musk is, what the hellhole are you doing present successful America?" Velazquez said portion speaking astatine an lawsuit extracurricular the HUD Department.
Even earlier Musk took the helm astatine DOGE, far-left Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, slammed him during a Jan. 20 interrogation for not being calved successful the U.S. portion suggesting helium supported apartheid.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett touted the Signal app successful comments implicit the weekend. (Allison Bailey/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
"[Musk] went from being the dork that was jumping astir connected signifier to allegedly being this astonishing genius that’s going to prevention this full country, the state helium wasn’t calved successful and a state that possibly helium doesn’t hold with, the thought of a Democratic Republic, considering the information that helium whitethorn person been much truthful connected the broadside of apartheid," said Crockett.
Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., piled connected further, suggesting successful a February interrogation that Musk was reverting to a fascist authorities of caput owed to his South African heritage.
"I deliberation that’s a leftover from Elon Musk’s South African heritage, and possibly he’s falling excessively acold backmost connected the apartheid strategy of authorities that was a fascist signifier of government," said Connolly.
"Here successful the United States, Mr. Musk," helium added, "we person 3 branches of government, each of them abstracted but coequal, and, ultimately, the judicial subdivision is the deciding origin erstwhile determination is simply a quality betwixt the different 2 branches of government. That’s however our strategy works here."
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Elon Musk with parent Maye Musk. (Reuters/Danny Moloshok)
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., accused Musk’s parents of trying to contradict Black radical their rights successful South Africa, comparing them to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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"Why can’t you understand? The Ukranians [sic] are warring for the aforesaid happening which his parents tried to contradict achromatic South Africans," Cohen wrote successful a February X post.
"Squad" subordinate Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., besides suggested Musk did not attraction for ideology due to the fact that helium came from South Africa.
"Elon Musk, who grew up successful apartheid, Trump who worships dictators astir the country, and beardown men, are not funny successful our law republic," Omar said.
Despite these claims, a Snopes fact-check recovered the crushed Musk near his commencement state successful the archetypal spot was to debar subject work due to the fact that helium did not privation to combat for an apartheid state.
Peter Pinedo is simply a authorities writer for Fox News Digital.
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