Trump's immigrant mother

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By Mary Pilon , JUNE 24, 2016

In November .. 1929 .. seventeen-year-old .. Mary Anne MacLeod, boarded the S.S. Transylvania in Glasgow, bound for New York City ... MacLeod hailed from Tong ... in the Outer Hebrides ...

... She took more than one transatlantic trip before settling in New York, in the thirties. On at least two ship manifests and in the 1930 census, her occupation is listed as “maid” or “domestic” ...

... She died in 2000 ... This week, Trump visited his mother’s homeland, attending the official opening of a renovated Trump Turnberry, a golf course he owns ... As global markets dropped precipitously .. Trump praised the sprinkler systems on the course .. and Turnberry’s “incredible suites.” His Turnberry speech was almost entirely about his golf course ...

... None of Trump’s cousins wish to speak to the press, William Foulger, the secretary of the Stornoway Historical Society, said, nor does the owner of the family home ...

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trumps-immigrant-mother

[Ilsa]

1. What a narcissist. He could have used the occasion to

Discuss his late mother's Scottish roots and his heritage and ties to Scotland. Instead he talked about hotel suites. What a loser.

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2. He's there to push his business. That's probably also why he's running for POTUS