Trump Against Immigrants While Surrounded by Immigrants

• 11.18.2016, 11:58
•  America

CNN

The newly elected President of USA, Donald Trump, who has a lot to say against immigrants, has been in relationships with immigrants throughout his life, starting with his mother and going on with his wives.

"My mother was born in Scotland. And she was a great woman," Trump said in a 2010 documentary.

In 1930, an 18-year-old Mary MacLeod sailed for America from Glasgow on the S.S. Transylvania, according to a copy of the ship's passenger list on Ancestry.com. MacLeod arrived in New York and married Fred Trump, the son of German immigrants himself, CNN reports.

"My grandfather Frederick Trump came to the United States in 1885. He joined the great gold rush and instead of gold he decided to open up some hotels in Alaska. He did fantastically well. He loved this country, likewise my father and now me," Trump said in a taped message for a German-American pride parade a few years ago.

The two of the three wives of Donald Trump are also immigrants. The first wife of Trump, Ivana was a 28-year-old model from Czechoslovakia in 1977, when she married Donald.

The couple went on to have three children - Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric - before divorcing in 1992.

She was rumored to have gotten approximately $20million, their $15million estate and 49% ownership in Mar-a-Lago in palm Beach.

She also reportedly receives $350,000 a year in alimony and was able to keep all her jewelry, according to Daily Mail.

Trump's current wife, who has also become the first lady of US, Melania Trump moved to New York about 20 years ago. The Slovenian born model now has her own jewelry and caviar-cream skincare lines. She married Trump in 2005 in a fairytale wedding that included a wedding gown reported to cost $100,000. And the next year, she became a citizen -- a decade after arriving in America.

In November 2015, when asked about her husband's presidential campaign, Melania said: "I encouraged him because I know what he will do and what he can do for America. He loves the American people and he wants to help them." She played a relatively small role in her husband's campaign--a typical of spouses of presidential running mates.

But interestingly enough, on his campaign trail, Trump used to sound more like a nativist than the son and grandson of immigrants.

"You have a border, you have a country, and if you don't have a border what are we?" Trump asked before answering himself. "Just a -- just a nothing. A nothing."

"We're building a wall. It's going to be a wall that is not -- nobody's going through my wall," Trump has said. "Trump builds walls. I build walls."