It is really embarrassing to read the xenophobic posts on DU,

[Ninsianna]

123. There are many xenophobic posts on DU, but the ones talking about Melania

are not xenophobic.

No one is accent free when they speak any language. It's a bit xenophobic to assume that whatever one considers and "American" accent is "accent free". It's not.

English is my second language, I had a non-American one when I arrived in this country at the age of 4, I spoke English English (the British sort), by age 5 I had an "American" one, confirmed by an old video my dad dug up from somewhere.

My grandfather, who taught me English, and my cousins had a horrible time trying to understand my American accent, which according to my college roomate (a Korean American from NJ/NY) was very midwestern, but totally normal to our suitemate (a Filipino/Italian-American from CT).

Fluency and accent have nothing to do with one another.

Melania speaks poorly, her accent is difficult to understand, but what makes her worthy of scorn is her immigration status, her support of vile Nazis, bullying and her patent failure to even read her teleprompter properly or do much of anything other than model clothes badly while flaunting her wealth at the expense of American citizens.