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Ukrainian-American Vindman twins - cute picture as young boys (Original Post)
OKNancy
Oct 2019
OP
Their mere existence is such a natural burn to everything Trump is. It's beautiful.
NCLefty
Oct 2019
#10
FM123
(10,053 posts)1. Love this!
WA-03 Democrat
(3,050 posts)2. Wow
Another point of fact that our country is built and may survive due to immigrants!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)3. And from the early years of their military service...
jayschool2013
(2,312 posts)4. Trump's baby pic
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)5. He hasn't changed a bit.
Well, except for the orange part.
BumRushDaShow
(128,953 posts)6. AWWWWW
You can see the personalities in the two as well.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)7. Yep, the Vindman twins were in a Ken Burns documentary!
A documentary crew working for Ken Burns was exploring New York in the early 1980s, working on a feature about the Statue of Liberty as part of Burnss America series. Near Brighton Beach, they found an elderly woman sitting on a bench with twin boys, then about 10 years old.
They'd come from Russia, from Kyiv, the twins told the camera, their explanations overlapping. Our mother died, so we went to Italy, one added, and then we came here."
The twins, Alexander and Yevgeny Vindman, both ended up working for the White House under President Trump. Both Vindmans served in the U.S. Army, and both rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Each now works for the National Security Council.
The reaction to Vindman, though, reveals a fundamental hypocrisy in the Trumpian approach to immigrants. What Trump prioritizes in migrants who come to the United States is self-sufficiency and assimilation. He prefers migrants from Europe over Africa or the Middle East. What he wants is Alexander Vindmans until Alexander Vindman points out where the loyalties of Trump himself might be questionable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/29/fundamentally-un-american-attacks-alexander-vindman/
They'd come from Russia, from Kyiv, the twins told the camera, their explanations overlapping. Our mother died, so we went to Italy, one added, and then we came here."
The twins, Alexander and Yevgeny Vindman, both ended up working for the White House under President Trump. Both Vindmans served in the U.S. Army, and both rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Each now works for the National Security Council.
The reaction to Vindman, though, reveals a fundamental hypocrisy in the Trumpian approach to immigrants. What Trump prioritizes in migrants who come to the United States is self-sufficiency and assimilation. He prefers migrants from Europe over Africa or the Middle East. What he wants is Alexander Vindmans until Alexander Vindman points out where the loyalties of Trump himself might be questionable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/29/fundamentally-un-american-attacks-alexander-vindman/
Skittles
(153,160 posts)8. 1985
oasis
(49,382 posts)9. Nice looking youngsters. nt
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)10. Their mere existence is such a natural burn to everything Trump is. It's beautiful.
I'm reminded of Khizr Khan. His immigrant (and Muslim!) kid died for us and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
And neither of those families ran from their last name when moving here like the Drumpfs did. Sad!