Posted on 11/22/2016 5:40:36 PM PST by ifinnegan
A historian has discovered a royal decree issued to Donald Trumps grandfather ordering him to leave Germany and never come back.
Friedrich Trump, a German, was issued with the document in February 1905, and ordered to leave the kingdom of Bavaria within eight weeks as punishment for having failed to do mandatory military service and failing to give authorities notice of his departure to the US when he first emigrated in 1885.
Kallstadt, Germany: on the trail of 'the Donald' in the Trump ancestral home Read more Roland Paul, a historian from Rhineland-Palatinate who found the document in local archives, told the tabloid Bild: Friedrich Trump emigrated from Germany to the USA in 1885. However, he failed to de-register from his homeland and had not carried out his military service, which is why the authorities rejected his attempt at repatriation.
The decree orders the American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump to leave the area at the very latest on 1 May ... or else expect to be deported. Bild called the archive find an unspectacular piece of paper, that had nevertheless changed world history.
Trump was born in Kallstadt, now in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, in 1869. He emigrated to the US aged 16 initially to escape poverty, attracted by the gold rush.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Trump is descended from Palatinians. Now he wants to register them. - Emily Litella
has = had
Dead or maybe he ate that famous Russian yogurt?
Well, they can be right 66% of the time...and that’s unusual. :)
“Trump is descended from Palatinians. Now he wants to register them. - Emily Litella”
Emily, that’s Palestinians. Trump wants to register Palestinians.
I thought Trump was Jewish?
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You’re joking right?
Trump Lives Matter!
Oh . . . . . . never mind!
Other than destroying a country, for the life of me I can't figure out what is motivating these people to want and even demand millions more people be jammed in? This is extremely odd.
Considering how Germany behaved since that decree, I would say it looks pretty GOOD for Trump
The article had scans of the document.
Yeah, I liked it, but he obviously didn't get it. He wouldn't know a joke if it came up and bit him on his funny bone.
Now he's embarrassed, trying to save face.
Such sparkling repartee, such rapier wit. Keep telling yourself that, snowflake. Maybe in some alternate universe it’ll come true.
Germans forced my Polish ancestors to flee to the US, during the Kulturkampf.
Most of our ancestors got thrown out of where ever country they came from or skipped one step ahead of the law.
Does he have the idea that this is disqualifying in any manner?
Were three-quarters grizzly bear and two-thirds car wreck and descended from a stock market crash on our mothers side. - PJ O'Rourke
Oh. .....never mind.
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