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malaise

(298,020 posts)
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 09:03 AM Jul 2025

DUers do you have a clip with Donvict claiming his father was born in Germany

after reminding the Scots that his mother was Scottish.

This is hardly the first time he lied about this. He said it in 2019.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/03/trump-claims-father-born-germany-false-fred-trump

Donald Trump wrongly claims his father was born in Germany – again
This article is more than 6 years old
President made the claim about his New York-born father, Fred Trump, during a press conference with the Nato secretary general

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DUers do you have a clip with Donvict claiming his father was born in Germany (Original Post) malaise Jul 2025 OP
Here. Solly Mack Jul 2025 #1
Thanks - that was from 2019 malaise Jul 2025 #2
Oh, OK. Idiot me. lolol Solly Mack Jul 2025 #3
Glad you posted this malaise Jul 2025 #4
And he has favorite lies he enjoys telling. Solly Mack Jul 2025 #7
Which is funny because for years he claimed his heritage was Swedish. Ocelot II Jul 2025 #5
He is a. Pathological LIAR malaise Jul 2025 #6

malaise

(298,020 posts)
4. Glad you posted this
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 10:03 AM
Jul 2025

He was trying hard to come up with where in Germany his father was born.

In reality his brothel owning grandfather was banished from Germany.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/trump-grandfather-friedrich-banished-germany-historian-royal-decree

Roland Paul, a historian from Rhineland-Palatinate who found the document in local archives, told the tabloid Bild: “Friedrich Trump emigrated from Germany to the USA in 1885. However, he failed to de-register from his homeland and had not carried out his military service, which is why the authorities rejected his attempt at repatriation.”

The decree orders the “American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump” to leave the area “at the very latest on 1 May ... or else expect to be deported”. Bild called the archive find an “unspectacular piece of paper”, that had nevertheless “changed world history”.
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He lies the way others breathe


Solly Mack

(97,271 posts)
7. And he has favorite lies he enjoys telling.
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 10:35 AM
Jul 2025

Been tuning out his recent visit overseas (as much as possible) and didn't know he said it again.

He tries so hard to forge a connection to Germany and Scotland and they don't want it. They know his ancestry and they are embarrassed by it.

Ocelot II

(131,252 posts)
5. Which is funny because for years he claimed his heritage was Swedish.
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 10:12 AM
Jul 2025

"In his book, “The Art of the Deal,” Donald Trump reaffirmed the myth of his family’s origins, writing that his father’s father came to America “from Sweden as a child.”" https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/trump-family-heritage.

malaise

(298,020 posts)
6. He is a. Pathological LIAR
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 10:26 AM
Jul 2025

I can’t process how anyone believes a single word uttered by this sick monster

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