Draft dodger begs local boss not to deport him
From last August but worth reviving for Memorial Day: Trump’s grandfather wrote to the local princeling begging him not to deport the little family.
When Donald Trump’s German grandfather was ordered by a royal decree to leave the country and never return, he wrote a letter pleading the prince regent of Bavaria not to deport him.
Friedrich Trump wrote the letter in 1905 when he returned to Germany with his wife and daughter after having emigrated to the US.
German authorities had given him eight weeks to leave and denied him repatriation because he failed to complete his mandatory military service and to register his initial emigration to the US 20 years earlier.
Emphasis added. Like granddaddy like grandson eh? Military service is for other people; the Trumps don’t want to get any closer than a nice expensive parade.
The letter, translated from German into English and published in Harper’s Magazine, shows how desperate Mr Trump was to remain with his family in Bavaria.
Writing to Luitpold, prince regent of Bavaria, he begged for mercy.
He said: “In this urgent situation I have no other recourse than to turn to our adored, noble, wise, and just sovereign lord, our exalted ruler His Royal Highness, highest of all, who has already dried so many tears, who has ruled so beneficially and justly and wisely and softly and is warmly and deeply loved, with the most humble request that the highest of all will himself in mercy deign to allow the applicant to stay in the most gracious Kingdom of Bavaria.”
Well at least he had enough self-respect not to grovel.
Mr Trump was born in the village of Kallstadt, in the Rhineland region in west Germany in 1869.
He left the country at the age of 16 with little possessions and went to the US in the hope of making fortune.
He trained to become a barber and he went on to run a restaurant, bar and allegedly even a brothel and became a wealthy man.
His son Fred got richer by renting apartments to white people, and his grandson got even richer by lying cheating and stealing. So haha to you Prinz Luitpold!
Trump’s gonna see this and think that it’s a fine template, a tremendous template, in fact, the best one, for someone writing a letter to him.
The grandfather’s name was also Drumpf, only transliterated into Trump because, like so many others, English speakers in general and Americans in particular have a hard time wrapping their tongues around anything that isn’t the particular kind of English they grew up speaking. I imagine that he didn’t sign his English bastardisation to the bottom of his supplication to the Big Boss of Bayern.
That story of Trump’s grandfather running a brothel on the Canadian Arctic frontier could well be fake news. Fake town? Possibly. Fake brothel? Possibly. Fake women?.Possibly. Fake gold? No, definitely not fake gold. Fake everything else maybe, but not the foundations of Trump’s fortune, surely?
Next thing, we’ll have fake news about Trump Tower being a 58-storey tax-dodgers’ bordello.
What is the world coming to?