He looks a lot like Don Trump Jr...No?
"Friedrich Drumft was swept to the United States in one of the biggest waves of mass migration in history. During the 1880s and early 1890s, 1.8 million Germans emigrated to various European and overseas destinations. When young Friedrich arrived in New York in 1885, at 16 years of age, he joined around 200,000 of his compatriots who had already settled in the metropolis, forming a distinct “Little Germany”. He found work as a barber, and for six years, he shared a small apartment with his sister and brother-in-law.
In 1891, at 22, he decided to go west to seek his fortune. Friedrich anglicized his name to Frederick Trump and became a US citizen. He moved to Seattle and opened a small late-night restaurant that catered to the clientele of the local saloons, brothels, and opium dens.
When the Klondike Gold Rush began, Trump left the red-light district and moved to the edge of town, where he opened a new eatery to serve the thousands of fortune-seekers on their way to the gold fields.
In 1898, he and a partner followed the gold rush north to British Columbia, Canada. They set up a tent on the heavily-traveled Dead Horse Trail and served hot meals to the prospectors. Business was so good that they moved to a two-story building in the boom town of Bennett and opened the New Arctic Restaurant and Hotel. The building, it is said, loomed tall among a sea of tents.
The New Arctic was the best facility around, offering unaccustomed luxuries: excellent accommodations, a saloon that never closed, and a restaurant featuring a wide range of game, fish, fowl, and fresh fruits and vegetables.
When a new railroad bypassed Bennett, Trump relocated to Whitehorse, a larger boom town, and opened the Whitehorse Restaurant and Inn. The new facility was open around the clock and served 3,000 meals a day.
In 1901, after gold was discovered in Alaska and the wave of prospectors surged north-west, Trump cashed out. He sold his Canadian investments and returned to Kallstadt Germany with a small fortune.. (Incidentally, the Heinz family of Ketchup fame has its origins in the same town.) Frederick married his childhood sweetheart, Elisabeth, in Kallstadt and planned to settle down.
The Bavarian Palatinate authorities, however, would not let him. When they discovered that he had emigrated when young to avoid fulfilling his military service, ( Does that remind you of someone?) he lost his Bavarian citizenship.
They claimed he had left Germany as an illegal immigrant, evading taxes and the compulsory two-year military service. Frederick pleaded that he and Elisabeth were, “loyal Germans and stand behind the high Kaiser and the mighty German Reich”. It was all to no avail. The Trumps were evicted and scuttled back to the USA to resettle in New York where they raised a family … one of whom was Frederick Trump, the father of the sitting president of the United States.
The acorns never fell very far from that tree...
I wonder what Freidrich would think of his grandson
I am beginning to wonder if we can honestly say anything is actually Trumpty-Dumpty's fault, given how inept he is at, well, everything.
Sure, he said it was fine to put kids in cages and now he says it isn't, but then he said that "Little Rocket Man" was a threat to US security and now they're buddies. Oh wait, they're mortal enemies, again. During the election he was all for free trade but now he's for protectionism, at least of his own tax-returns.
The real problem isn't the Tangerine Tantrum, who changes his "mind" more frequently than he changes his underwear, it's the enablers. Trump is beyond reason, but surely there are some grown-ups around the White House or the Congress or the Senate who can control, or at least, reason with the 'Mango Monster'. But they don't. They give in to his every whim or racist, xenophobic, dumb-ass idea. Why? Because they like the power after such a long absence from any kind of significance . They like controlling all three branches of government and keeping the Democrats under their thumb and destroying every good thing that previous presidents put in place. The last time the Republicans controlled all three branches was in 1928. They will certainly leave their stamp on their country. It may take decades to clean up after them.
Maybe Americans should all learn Russian.
It's a shame one stupid man have so much influence over so few people to ruin a great country in less than two years . I think the fool didn't have the sense to know what he was getting into with Putin .The republicans is a bunch of mindless idiots like their leader.
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Well , the whole world know the color of his underwear.
You made some very important points .
Love Witchy
Since Frederick Drumft migrated to the Yukon territory in Canada, did he actually become a US citizen or Canadian citizen?
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