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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 cant 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 Trumps husband though in Kallstadt, a sleepy village nestled in the rolling hills of Germanys 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 Kallstadts mayor, Thomas Jaworek, before quickly adding: Im not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/world/europe/trump-germany-family-ancestry-kallstadt.html
CatMor
(6,212 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)Haha. He looks like dumb drrooomp
Brother Buzz
(36,389 posts)Vinca
(50,237 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,389 posts)There is no doubt she has exactly what it takes to negotiate with North Korea
healthnut7
(249 posts)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!!