Ask not what Trump can do for you but what you can do for Trump
by digby
I know this is a day late but I wanted to share it in case you missed it:
Irish PM @EndaKennyTD tells @realDonaldTrump that for over 200 years, millions of Irish immigrants have called America home #StPatricksDay pic.twitter.com/Fx6vQp8yv1— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) March 17, 2017
It’s fitting that we get together here each year to celebrate St. Patrick and his legacy. He too, of course, was an immigrant.
And though he is, of course, the patron saint of Ireland, for many people around the globe he’s aloud the symbol of, indeed the patron of immigrants.
Here in America, in your great country, 35 million people claim Irish heritage, and the Irish have contributed to the economic, social and political of cultural life of this great country for the last 200 years.
Ireland came to America, because of deprived liberty, deprived of opportunity, of safety — of even food itself the Irish believed and four decades before Lady Liberty lifted her lamp, we were the wretched refuse on the teeming shore.
We believed in the shelter of America, in the compassion of America, in the opportunity of America, we came and we became Americans.
We lived the words of John F. Kennedy, long before he uttered him. We asked not what America could do for us, but what we could do for America — and we still do.
Check out the look on Trump’s face.
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