Rep. Maxine Waters Suggests Deporting First Lady In Anti-DOGE Tirade: ‘He Ought To First Look At Melania’

OAN Staff Brook Mallory
1:56pm – Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

In anti-do protests in Los Angeles over the weekend, California Democratic leader Maxine Waters suggested that President Donald Trump should look into his wife and perhaps expel First Lady Melania Trump.

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“When he was there [Trump] We talk about birthrights, and he is trying to undo the fact that the Constitution allows those born here to be born here. According to various videos posted on social media, Waters said from the stage of the meeting in Los Angeles that Waters wanted to find people born here and parents who have not documented, and if he wanted to find people who have not documented their parents, he might have seen Melania first.

“We don't know if her parents were documented or not, and maybe we'd just look,” she added.

Melania Trump was born in Slovenia and gained legal US citizenship in 2006. She is the second and first woman born outside the United States after Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, the wife of President John Quincy Adams, born in London, England in 1775.

Melania is also the first American first lady to be given naturalization.

According to 2018, after acquiring her own citizenship, the First Lady is from now Slovenia and sponsored her parents for the Green Card and later for citizenship. New York Times article. Melania's parents, Victor and Amaria Nabbs, acquired US citizenship in 2018.

Her father, Victor Nabbs, was seen alongside the Trump family on public occasions, including sitting next to her eldest son, Baron Trump during her in office, but Amalia Nabbs passed away in 2024.

Waters had hinted at the executive order that President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office.

“Trump EO is trying to narrow the scope of birthright citizenship to ban individuals born to illegal immigrant parents, or those who were legally here but use temporary non-immigrant visas.” Fox News It has been reported.

Trump took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court last week, and the executive order is currently pending.

Waters' comments were said when she joined the protest in Los Angeles on Saturday. There, left-wing protesters began to express their disapproval of the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attempts to reduce waste, overexpenditure and federal fraud.

As part of the event, protesters and mob marched to VA Hospital on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times.

“We're here because we won't let Trump. We won't let Elon Musk, his co-president, or anyone else, will not overthrow the US Constitution,” Waters added to the crowd in her speech.