Posted on 09/20/2015 1:38:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Canadians amused by the improbable presidential run of Donald Trump might be surprised to learn the role their own country played in shaping his story.
Trump's grandfather started the family fortune in an adventure that involved the Klondike gold rush, the Mounties, prostitution and twists of fate that pushed him to New York City.
Friedrich Trump had been in North America a few years when he set out for the Yukon, says an author who's just completed a new edition of her multi-generational family biography.
That Canadian chapter proved pivotal for the entrepreneurial German immigrant, says Gwenda Blair, author of The Trumps: Three Generations That Built An Empire.
"It allowed him to get together the nest egg he'd come to the United States for," the author and Columbia University journalism professor said in an interview.
"Whether he could've accumulated that much money somewhere else, in that short a period of time, as a young man with no connections, and initially not even English, is certainly ... unlikely."
He'd left Europe in 1885 at age 16, a barber's apprentice whose father died young.
Trump wanted a life outside the barber shop, far from the family-owned vineyards his ancestors had been working since they'd settled in Germany's Kallstadt region in the 1600s carrying the soon-altered surname Drumpf.
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So Fred Trump saw opportunity, and maximized the potential, trading on a sure thing....
Surely people have done much worse than that in their lifetimes.
All the gold ain’t in them thar hills. Some of it has been dug up and now resides in somebody else’s vaults.
And partially responsible for the stock market crash of 1929.
I have this ancestor (mother’s side) Named Cain who murdered his brother. Guess I’m out.
The desperation of the media is becoming hilarious.
Cool!
Klondike Gold Rush was in the Klondike region of north-western Canada in the Yukon territory . Between 1896 and 1899. It’s also called the Yukon Gold Rush,
Thanks. I find it AMUSING.
no legs...but amusing..
So they’re saying Trump’s well-quailified to be Speaker of the House?
I’d rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother that’s a democrat.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
“Donald Trump’s grandfather ran Canadian brothel...”
And every customer of grandpa Trump’s walked away with a smile on his face!
Who said you never should mix business with pleasure?
Barney Frank’s admitted to helping his lover run a gay escort service out of his Congressional office in 1989... funny how the press didn’t care much about that.
Well you know what they say...the sins of the grandfather...
They denied renewal on his student visa IIRC. Something like that. He was a scammer.
Both of my grandfathers were farmers and I can’t milk a cow to save my life.
This was on FR a few days ago! When I came back later it disappeared into the Ozone. The responses were great!
That will certainly KILL HIS CHANCES. Not a prayer for him now. HOW DARE he let his grandfather run a brothel.
***My grandfather burned the school in Indian Territory.***
Babbs Switch?
Obama couldn’t run a brothel on an Army base.
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