The binational background of Donald Trump’s children and the trinational background of Kamala Harris

Donald Trump was born in the United States in 1946. His first wife, Ivana Zelníčková Trump, was born in Czechoslovakia in 1949; this third, Melania Knauss Trump, in Slovenia in 1970. His children, Donald Jr. (b. 1977), Ivanka (b. 1981), Eric (b. 1984), and Barron (b. 2006), thus all have binational backgrounds. Yet all that doesn't keep Trump from spouting racist nonsense about the trinational background of Vice President Kamala Harris, his opponent in the 2024 United States presidential election: her father Donald J. Harris was born in 1938 in Jamaica, her mother Shyamala Gopalan was born in 1938 in India, and she was born in 1964 in the United States. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 1 August 2024)