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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Long before. Nobody was killed. My grand father had been in ww1 long before this and was farming in Missouri by 1924. Tom switch is I. The bottom of grand lake now.
Ok, and??
So! My great-great grand father and his older brother killed native people in Colorado with the 7th. Colorado. They were so good at killing after the civil war, both with N.Y. Calv. unit that was all that was left for work. Finish life as warden and guards at Cannon City CO. prison. So!
My paternal grandfather, at one point was a bartender who the came home drunk every night. He later on owned a sand quarry, and later yet, a cigar factory. One of the main roads through our neck of the woods was poured concrete. He supplied most of the sand for many miles of that road.
And every one of us is related to Kevin Bacon within 6 removals, according to authorities on such things.
Harry S. Truman said that when he was starting out, he was torn between going into politics, or being the piano player in a whorehouse (his words).
He said that later on in life he came to realize that there’s very little difference between the two.
Like my uncle back in the '70s told my then 20-something year old cousin: You're sitting on a gold mine. He's laid off the booze in his later years. LOL
In sure there was plenty of that. The first restaurant was in a tent along the side of track. Menu consisted of coffee and horsemeat from the carcasses of dead pack horses that died along the way
I had a distant relative that was shot in the back in Deadwood S.D. And to this day if I eat out I always try to pick a chair with a wall behind it!
Not grandson’s problem.
I wonder what business his ggggggrandfather was involved in. They do try to dig up trash on the campaign leaders.
And what did she reply?
So?
Someone told me yesterday that one of Trump’s casinos contains a strip club.
Looked it up when I got home, and sure enough, it’s true.
So, looks to to me that not much has changed in terms of the family business.
Heading out into the world at 16 and becoming a success - sounds like good stock.
“Obamas father was forced to leave the US.”
Bears repeating, especially because this is going to come up again.
IIRC he had been in this country for years on some sort of student/education visa. Even when he trysted with Obama’s mother and been all over the country. At some point, he tried to get the University to confirm his work/schooling and they came back with a no-recommend renewal IIRC or something like that.
What! I thought we were suppose to “embrace people’s sexual choices and let LOVE win”. How dare this BIGOT question 100 year old sexual morals!
Do I really need the sarcasm tag?
A recent Democrat senator was IN the KKK!!
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