On March 22, at an anti-DOGE protest in Los Angeles, Democrat California Rep. Maxine Waters made horrific comments about the first lady, insinuating that she was not a legal citizen.
“When he [Trump] talks about birthright, and he’s going to undo the fact that the Constitution allows those who are born here, even if the parents are undocumented, they have a right to stay in America. If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he ought to first look at Melania,” she said, even though Melania came to the United States as an adult and was not “born here.”
“We don’t know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look,” she said.
Watters, who has made a career out of making asinine comments, overlooked the fact that Melania became a U.S. citizen in 2006.
Meanwhile, during a rally on February 4, Democrat Rep. Janelle Bynum of Oregon compared Musk and DOGE to the British burning the Capitol during the War of 1812.
“They always told us the British had come to storm the city. They always reminded us the British had come, and they burned everything down, and we could never let that happen again. They told us, and here we are, Trump and his billionaire boy band. They are not British this time. This one is South African. But they came back,” she said.
Some Democrats were even more vitriolic and direct with their xenophobic attacks on Musk, with New York Democrat Rep. Nydia Velázquez simply saying that Musk needs to “go back to South Africa.”
“It was interesting yesterday. I was watching a video of an interview of Elon Musk with someone where he said that the Italians should stay in Italy and the Chinese should stay in China. My question to Elon Musk is, what the hell are you doing here in America?” she said at a rally outside the HUD Department.
Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett insinuated in an interview on Inauguration Day that Musk supported apartheid in South Africa and hit him for not being born in the United States.
