This is truly the theatre of the… absurd.

Tangerine 2.0 now claims he will strip many foreign born US citizens of their status — as citizens. Of course, citizenship is a property right and cannot be abridged without full due process of our laws, which includes an Article III federal judge — and a hearing and a right of appeal — all the way to the United States Supreme Court. So good luck with that as a practical matter Mr. Trump.

But the reason I am entering this short blog post here tonight is to make it plain that many learned commentators believe Melania, his current wife, came to the United States as part of a chain migration scheme. I don’t know whether that is true, but I do know she was born in Slovenia. Her parents were born in Slovenia. It’s never been clear how she obtained US citizenship — there are stories though that seem to suggest that one or more of Trump‘s modeling agencies, or even one of Jeffrey Epstein‘s agencies… Procured her citizenship as a favor from someone.

If that turns out to be true, Trump‘s attempt to deport others (he disfavors) will run into the problem that he has not ever tried (over two decades, and two terms at 1600 Penn) to deport his own wife — if he is going to apply the law evenly without fear or favor.

That is to say anyone he tries to deport under this newly aggressive policy will have the obvious defense that it was a vindictive or selective prosecution because his wife continues to shop in Midtown Manhattan, while they fight for a property right that they earned in many cases decades ago.

Fascinating. And tragically comic, in its irony.

Out.