Last night I had a dream I sat in on a therapy session for Trump.

[alwaysinasnit]

1. Probably because 45 (and Dense) are products of chain migration.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/12/trump-pence-migration-records

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In October 1885, Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich Trump, arrived in Manhattan as a “gangly 16-year-old boy” fleeing poverty and military service in Germany to live with his sister Katherine, according to Gwenda Blair’s book The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate.

“Friedrich Trump was not going to be alone,” Blair writes. “His oldest sister had immigrated to New York a year earlier, at 23. There she joined her fiancé, a shipping clerk from Kallstadt … He had come to America after two older cousins set up a wine business in New York City.” Another Trump sister, Louise, later followed her siblings from Germany to the US.

Friedrich, who worked as a barber, became a US citizen in 1892. A decade later, he briefly returned to Germany, married Elizabeth Christ, and then brought her back to the US to live with him. Their son, Fred, married Mary Macleod, who gave birth to Donald in 1946.

Macleod had immigrated to New York in 1930 from Scotland. “Unskilled and unemployed, she lived with her married sister in Astoria, Queens,” according to Blair’s book. Ngai noted that under Trump’s plan to ban visas for residents’ siblings, “if his mother were coming to the US today, she’d be excluded”.

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