Excerpt from this article. | By Meredith Kile, People | Trump’s DHS isn’t the only arm of his administration to be called out recently for their misinterpretation of art. On Dec. 26, Stephen Miller, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff, posted to X about how he spent the holidays.
“Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids,” Miller wrote. “Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world.”
Many who saw the post were quick to point out that Martin and Sinatra were, of course, both the children of immigrants from Italy, which, at the time of their coming to America, was considered a “third world” country.
Sinatra, in particular, was outspoken throughout his career about racism and anti-immigration politics. In 1991, he penned an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times titled “The Haters and Bigots Will Be Judged: Some words from a ‘saloon singer’ to those who still haven’t figured out the whole point of America.”
“Who in the name of God are these people anyway, the ones who elevate themselves above others? America is an immigrant country,” Sinatra wrote. “Maybe not you and me, but those whose love made our lives possible, or their parents or grandparents,” he went on. “America was founded by these people, who were fed up with other countries. Those weren’t tourists on the Mayflower—they were your families and mine, following dreams that turned out to be possible dreams.”
He added, “As for the others, those cross-burning bigots to whom mental slavery is alive and well, I don’t envy their trials in the next world, where their thoughts and words and actions will be judged by a jury of One.”
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