Trump's niece, Mary, says she is 'prepared' to change her last name in a bid to distance herself fro

[mfcorey1]

Mary Trump, the niece of Former President Donald Trump, has said she might change her last name to avoid being associated with her uncle.


"I am prepared to change my name if need be," she told The Telegraph. She is worried her last name now comes with negative connotations, the clinical psychologist said.

Trump's niece has long sought to distance herself from the former president by publicly criticizing him.

She has previously accused him of being a "narcissist," "a sociopath," and has backed calls for his impeachment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-niece-mary-says-she-is-prepared-to-change-her-last-name-in-a-bid-to-distance-herself-from-the-former-president/ar-BB1d3en4?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz

[LearnedHand]

1. I wondered if she had considered that!

I can't imagine -- or maybe I can -- how toxic it must be to share a last name with that slime mold.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Keeping the name gives her more credibility when she speaks out.

At least for the time being. Down the road she may need to change it.

[treestar]

17. Yes. Having a Trump not be one of his followers

and in fact one of his critics lends some weight.

[captain queeg]

3. Isn't the name Hitler banned in Germany?

I’ve heard that a few times though I don’t think I’ve ever read it anywhere trustworthy. I don’t think it was ever a common name but I think it’s been expunged.

[GopherGal]

12. I don't know about banned, but it seems it's there's a voluntary effort to expunge it.

[link:https://allthatsinteresting.com/hitlers-descendants|]

As soon as they knew about their Hitler family history, the three boys made a pact. None of them would have children and the family line would end with them. It also seems that the other Hitler descendants, their cousins in Austria, felt the same way.

When Heiner’s identity was revealed in 2004, there was a question of whether the descendants would receive royalties from Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf. All of the living heirs claim they want no part of it.

[treestar]

16. It is interesting to find that

those with the name ended up in the US. At some point they changed the name. They also vowed not to have children, so that his line would go out - though actually it's just through his brother. He has no direct descendants.

[Mike 03]

4. I support whatever she decides.

IMO, she's done a wonderful job of distinguishing herself from the other Trumps, and also redeeming her father's memory by telling his painful story and explaining Fred Jr.'s struggle to differentiate and make an independent life for himself, and how it contributed to his death. If she decided to keep her name, it could be a way of honoring her father's memory, I would think.

She could also take her spouse's last name.

Many of the children of Nazi war criminals kept their names. But I found one who did not: the son of Josef Mengele.

He abandoned the Mengele name in the 1980s, taking his wife’s last name instead to spare his children the burden. He lives in Freiburg, Germany, where he works as an attorney.

https://nypost.com/2018/02/03/how-nazi-offspring-dealt-with-their-familys-hellish-histories/

There are likely others who changed their names as well, but that's all I could find in a quick Google search.

[Staph]

7. According to her book,

Mary has married and since divorced, so the option to take her wife's name is probably off the table. In the book, she never names her former wife.

[Mike 03]

9. Aw, I'm sorry to hear that.

Thanks for the information.

I remember from the book that the wedding in Hawaii had to be postponed, and that no Trumps ever asked her about her relationship, or really anything about her life, but I didn't remember that they were divorced. Sad.

[DeminPennswoods]

15. She can always take her mother's maiden name

nt

[Staph]

20. Her mother's maiden name was Clapp.

That wouldn't be my first choice of names, but it's miles ahead of Trump!

[KewlKat]

5. She could change it to something like Fuck-Trump?

[Mike 03]

6. Ha. Actually, she could just change her middle name to "Fuck" and that

would clear things up.

[GopherGal]

13. or even "Frederick" to honor her father

making her name "Mary F. Trump"

[GoCubsGo]

8. She might want to consider returning to "Drumpf."

Nothing wrong with that name, in spite of what her grandfather, or whoever the hell it was who changed it, thought. All the more reason to change it back, actually.

[dawg day]

10. I'd change the middle name to "No Longer"

Mary No Longer Trump.

Or Mary
The Only Good Trump

[Wawannabe]

19. This! nt

[safeinOhio]

11. The only Trump name that is acceptable

Is with a Mary in front of it

She should keep it and keep speaking.

[catrose]

14. To honor her father, she could be Mary Frederick

[Wawannabe]

18. I would!

Damn. Would hate to have same name let alone same genes! 😷😷😷

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. Can't really blame her.

[Raine]

22. Doubtful she'd change it

if her name wasn't Trump no one would care what she has to say.