An Irish museum is striving to change US President Donald Trump’s views on immigration by inviting him to view their exhibits.
Dublin’s EPIC emigration museum said that given the president’s “well documented and debated” stance on immigration they felt “a responsibility” to invite him to visit.
Museum bosses published an open letter in local paper The Clare Champion which covers the area where Trump’s luxury golf resort is located in Doonbeg.
In the letter director Mervyn Greene highlighted Irish contributions to building US cities such as New York and pointed out that Trump’s vice president Mike Pence was descended from Irish immigrants.
Appealing to the US president he wrote that “everyone has a connection to the story of emigration” and said “people often change their perspective once they see it told from many angles”.
He also highlighted Trump’s own family’s emigration from Germany and said Melania Trump was an example of how “a recent immigrant has made the most of a new opportunity to one day become FLOTUS”.
Signing off the director added: “We know you’ll have a busy presidential itinerary, but we promise you an enlightening experience in less time than it takes to play a round of golf”.
President Trump is set to arrive in Ireland on Wednesday June 5th and is expected to spend two nights at his county Clare hotel.
He will also meet with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with the pair expected to meet somewhere in Shannon after reports circulated over a dispute over the suggested venue of Trump’s hotel.
Security operations have been underway for a number of weeks at Shannon Airport where the president will fly into and surrounding areas securing roads for the presidential motorcade.
Meanwhile a crowdfunding campaign has resulted in the giant balloon “Trump Baby” used during the president’s last UK visit to be transported to Dublin as part of a protest in the capital.
The president and first lady will visit Ireland after embarking on state visits to France and the UK to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
