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

[Snellius]

Source: New York Times

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.”
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“The heartlessness of the Bavarian bureaucracy towards Mr. Trump’s grandfather is reminiscent of the heartlessness of the president towards illegal immigrants in America,” said Walter Rummel, the director of the state archive in nearby Speyer, where the unsuccessful immigration file of Friedrich Trump is kept. “A loser file,” Mr. Rummel said sarcastically.
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When Mr. Trump was inaugurated, she baked spongecakes covered in stars and stripes and edible pictures of him. “It was a joke,” she said. But neighbors started boycotting her bakery, and she did not make the cake again.



https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/02/world/europe/trump-germany-family-ancestry-kallstadt.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics

[mr_lebowski]

1. 7th Cousin? Stretch to call that a 'relative' ...

That means you share the same great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents (and are of the same generation, presumably, given no 'X removed' ... but who'd bother pointing out removal when it's a 7th?).

Still, nice that they're shunning the bastard.

[Snellius]

2. I'm always amazed at people who can figure out those genealogical names.

Stuff like "great grand maternal uncle twice removed". Nice work, mr_lebowski

[Midnight Writer]

4. I just found out the lady that has lived two doors down from me for thirty years is my first cousin.

At least she seems very nice.

[enid602]

3. Family name

I thought tRump's family name was Drumpf.

[BigmanPigman]

5. That is the first thought that came to my mind too.

Wikipedia says that grandpa Drumpf left Germany in the middle of the night . leaving just a note to his mother, to escape the DRAFT! Sound familiar? Bone spurs run in their DNA I suppose. When Heir Drumpf tried to return to Germany a few years later they wouldn't let him in since they kept the draft records. That is why we were luck enough to get stuck with the loser and his spawn.