Reading about 45's family, it struck me how both Trump's father and grandfather were pure con men.

[DTomlinson]

Doing the "truthful hyperbole" bullshit, cheating and stiffing people they worked with, manipulating the media, bribing politicians, and tricking investors into supporting their (fraudulent or fraudulent-adjacent) ventures, and using the government to build their (much-inflated) wealth while keeping most of it through blatant tax evasion. And all with a shameless, ruthless, no-apology, attack attack attack strategy.

The start of the family fortune, Friederich Trump's first successful venture? Prostitution, run out of his restaurant way up in Alaska IIRC. Go figure.

A full century and some years of family white-collar crime, working their way all the way up to the US Presidency. You hate to see it!

[orwell]

1. Sounds like the Bush family...

...but even slimier...

[DTomlinson]

2. More vulgar than the Bush family, yeah.

Republicans sure love their evil family dynasties, don't they...they just get worse and worse.

[empedocles]

7. Prescott Bush, et al, was one of hitler's financiers

[BComplex]

8. I wish this was a better known fact.

In fact, I wish all of the Bush family sliminess was more widely known, because they do hide it behind a more polished facade than trump and his ilk.

[DTomlinson]

10. A lot of American businessmen financed/did business with Nazi Germany...

[empedocles]

12. As late as 1942?

[dalton99a]

3. Good bloodlines - son of a Klansman, grandson of a whoremonger

[DTomlinson]

4. "I have good genes." - Trump.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. It has been said that the douche doesn't fall far from the bag.

[DTomlinson]

6. LOL!

That's great.

[Lancero]

9. Fun fact, but Friederich Trump was ALSO a draft-dodger.

[DTomlinson]

11. YES. He was an immigrant from Germany...and he broke German law...

Not an illegal immigrant, but more of an illegal EMIgrant. Hmm....

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Another fun fact.....Eric Trump's middle name is Frederic ( no H) n/t