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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 03:54 PM Jul 2018

Trump's Ancestral Village Abounds With His Relatives. Few Will Admit It.

KALLSTADT, Germany — Herbert Trump did not want to talk about it. Neither did Ilse Trump. Ursula Trump, who runs the Trump bakery in the next village, eventually relented, palms upturned, and sighed: “You can’t choose your relatives, can you?”

The relative in question is Donald J. Trump, president of the United States, multimillionaire, the most powerful man on the planet and a seventh cousin of Ursula Trump’s husband — though in Kallstadt, a sleepy village nestled in the rolling hills of Germany’s southwestern wine country, he is simply “Donald.”

That is not least to avoid confusion with the other Trumps (or “Droomps,” as the name is pronounced in Palatinate dialect) listed in a phone book for the area: Beate Trump, a podiatrist in another nearby village, for example, or Justin Trump, a teenager whose friends say he sometimes gets teased for orange-blond hair.

But the Weisenborns and the Geissels and the Benders and the Freunds in Kallstadt are related to Mr. Trump, too. “Practically half the village is,” chuckled Kallstadt’s mayor, Thomas Jaworek, before quickly adding: “I’m not.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/world/europe/trump-germany-family-ancestry-kallstadt.html

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Trump's Ancestral Village Abounds With His Relatives. Few Will Admit It. (Original Post) mfcorey1 Jul 2018 OP
I guess from now on I'll call them the droomps. CatMor Jul 2018 #1
... WhoIsNumberNone Jul 2018 #2
Droomps lsewpershad Jul 2018 #3
Did they try talking to this potato farmer? Brother Buzz Jul 2018 #4
Throw a suit on that lady and she's the leader of the free world. Vinca Jul 2018 #5
Speaking about sacks of potatoes Brother Buzz Jul 2018 #6
Trump's healthnut7 Jul 2018 #7

Vinca

(50,237 posts)
5. Throw a suit on that lady and she's the leader of the free world.
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 05:19 PM
Jul 2018
Considering Don is as dumb as a sack of potatoes she'd probably do a better job.

Brother Buzz

(36,389 posts)
6. Speaking about sacks of potatoes
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 05:26 PM
Jul 2018

There is no doubt she has exactly what it takes to negotiate with North Korea

healthnut7

(249 posts)
7. Trump's
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 05:34 PM
Jul 2018

Last name was originally Drumpf. They changed it when they immigrated to the USA. They felt Trump sounded better. I looked the original name up to see it there was a meaning to it but found nothing.
The truth is his grandfather made money illegally and it must have been in the genes since Trump, and his father were and are carrying on the tradition. Guess they would be proud!!

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