Melania Trump, who was not born in America, has been silent as her husband tweets racist and xenophobic attacks at four lawmakers
On Sunday, the President implied Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts weren't natural-born American citizens.Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib and Pressley are natural-born US citizens, while Omar was born in Somalia and immigrated to the US when she was young. Omar became a citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old, according to The New York Times.
"The first lady has appeared to contradict the President several times during her tenure from his use of social media as a platform for occasional bullying, to her thoughts about NBA superstar LeBron James, whose intellectual capacity was questioned by the President in a tweet last summer.
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