I had a happy thought

[Marthe48]

If trump's grandfather had been deported, trump might have been born somewhere where he'd have had fewer limits on his horrible self. It is bad enough as it is, but maybe Fate was kind.

[2naSalit]

1. What?

I can hardly imagine there was another place on the planet where he would have been able to become what we loathe today. It was because his father wasn't deported that we got stuck with this POS. His father wouldn't have become wealthy by cheating people if he were anywhere else.

[csziggy]

2. Trump's grandfather was thrown out of Gemany

He'd immigrated to the US, made a bunch of money in the Alaska gold rush - mostly running hotels for other people going there. Then he went back to Germany to marry, returned to the US but his wife was homesick so they went back to Germany again. At that point the German authorities decided that he left first time to avoid his military service and they refused to let him stay.

More details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump

So we could wish that the German government had allowed Frederick to stay, maybe gave him some prison time for skipping out on his obligations. Or we could wish that the family had fought the government decision longer so his oldest child, Fred (Dolt45's father) was a German citizen. Unfortunately the US government was very forgiving of European white immigrants in those days so a German born one, even a draft dodger, had no problems.

Frederick Trump was never an American citizen but since his children were born in the US we're stuck with the later generations.