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In reply to the discussion: REALLY?!!! Kamala not eligible to run for VP because of her Immigrant parents? [View all]csziggy
(34,131 posts)35. For years both Dolt45 and Fred Trump claimed Frederick Trump was from Sweden
Trump's family denied German heritage for years
Jennifer Hansler
By Jennifer Hansler, CNN
Updated 2:57 PM ET, Tue November 28, 2017
(CNN)President Donald Trump has come under fire for using the name of a famous Native American as a slur -- at an event honoring Native Americans for their service as code talkers in World War II, no less.
<SNIP>
Fred Trump sought to pass himself off as Swedish amid anti-German sentiment sparked by World War II. According to the biography "The Trumps: Three Generations that Built an Empire" by Gwenda Blair, Fred Trump denied knowing German and did not teach it to his children.
John Walter, a Trump family historian and one of Donald Trump's cousins, said this was an effort to not offend his Jewish customers.
"He said, 'You don't sell apartments after the war if you're German,'?" Walter said in the Boston Globe article. "So he's Swedish, no problem."
Even after World War II, Fred Trump continued to claim he was Swedish, according to Walter.
More: https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/trump-family-heritage/index.html
Jennifer Hansler
By Jennifer Hansler, CNN
Updated 2:57 PM ET, Tue November 28, 2017
(CNN)President Donald Trump has come under fire for using the name of a famous Native American as a slur -- at an event honoring Native Americans for their service as code talkers in World War II, no less.
<SNIP>
Fred Trump sought to pass himself off as Swedish amid anti-German sentiment sparked by World War II. According to the biography "The Trumps: Three Generations that Built an Empire" by Gwenda Blair, Fred Trump denied knowing German and did not teach it to his children.
John Walter, a Trump family historian and one of Donald Trump's cousins, said this was an effort to not offend his Jewish customers.
"He said, 'You don't sell apartments after the war if you're German,'?" Walter said in the Boston Globe article. "So he's Swedish, no problem."
Even after World War II, Fred Trump continued to claim he was Swedish, according to Walter.
More: https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/trump-family-heritage/index.html
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REALLY?!!! Kamala not eligible to run for VP because of her Immigrant parents? [View all]
progressive nobody
Aug 2020
OP
I am so pissed off about this I can't see straight!! So Obama was Kenyan and Harris is
cornball 24
Aug 2020
#10
I am too. This is my way of venting. Trump just needsto look at his own family history.
progressive nobody
Aug 2020
#12
Yes, but mummy was born in Scotland and did Fred run back to the father country to get out of
progressive nobody
Aug 2020
#15
"Grab a Red Stripe and some samosas and try to figure out why you're wrong, dumbass."
SMC22307
Aug 2020
#26
Wait till they say that California did not have statehood when Camela was born ...
IggleDuer
Aug 2020
#17
Our current president has an allegiance to Russia and doesn't think he is subject
struggle4progress
Aug 2020
#34