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Posted on 05/09/2026 7:18:31 AM PDT by DFG
I want to tell you the story of a young woman who you have probably never heard of. Her name is Mary Anne. She was born on a remote island in Scotland, where life was harsh and unforgiving.
On May 2, 1930, when she was 18 years old, she got on a boat headed for Ellis Island to start a new life. She arrived here 11 days later.
She wasn't chasing fame, riches, or power. She came for the unique opportunity that America offered. Her sister was already here and had found a job as a maid. So, Mary Anne MacLeod joined her, listing her occupation as “domestic” on her Ellis Island immigration papers.
She came to America knowing that she would clean the houses and toilets of the wealthy families in New York. She and her sister lived and worked hard through the worst days of the Depression. And she persevered.
Six years later, she married a man named Fred. He was the son of German immigrants. Then In 1942, she became a citizen.
Mary and Fred would end up having five children: two daughters and three sons.
One of those sons, they named Donald.
A woman who came here as a maid, the lowest of jobs, would raise a son who would change the very skyline that greeted his mother when she arrived at Ellis Island.
After that, he would become the 45th and 47th President of the United States.
There is no other country in the world where a woman can arrive with nothing, and in ONE generation, her son would lead the entire world.
For America’s 250th anniversary, I wanted to present President Trump with this painting I did, and then I ran out of time and talent. So, I asked a good friend of mine, Mike Malm, to help me finish it. This is how I envisioned her coming into the United States.
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump should be a household name. Her story is everything that is great about America.
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Better Trump than Obama or McCain, at least.
Three (or five) cheers for Mary Ann Trump!
Hm: Why were Scotland and Ireland so poor that people had to come to the USA for any hope of a better life?
Seems to be a pretty traditional case of hypergamy here. Good for them.
I’m going to attribute part of it to the world-wide Depression that began in October of 1929.
The US Constitution is the reason people come here!
Well, used to be anyway.
Now they come for the freebies and handouts therefore turning our country into the “-hit hole” they left.
Amen!
Just look at what the UK and Ireland are like today for the answer! Magnificent, wonderful people but with absolutely horseshit governments.
“I’m going to attribute part of it to the world-wide Depression that began in October of 1929.”
Mine came from Scotland much earlier. Some made it into ‘West Florida’ before Florida became a state in 1819.
Millions of stories.
My grandparents came to Ellis Island about 1910.
In America the movers and shakers were businessmen who became powerful due to their skill (merit). In the UK people who inherit their titles have much more of the power (non- merit).
A country flounders when you put it in the hands of people without the right skills to grow the country (non-merit)
The British
For the same reason so many of them are poor today...socialism, despotic government intrusion and restrictions on what are unalienable freedoms.
Not to take anything away from Mary but look at Ilhan Omar. She came to America with nothing, constantly professes her hatred for everything American and look where she and her clan are now. Is this a great country or what.
Mine came from Ireland and Scotland in the 1700’s. From England in the 1600’s. And Germany in the 1800’s. All legal by the way. I’m about as white boy as you can get.
British oppression for the most part.
To read later.
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