09/22/2024
The Challenge News Magazine.
Have some bigoted individuals forgotten that all of us in these not-so-United States (excluding native Indians) are immigrants? Historically remember that some folk came to the shores of America with less revenue than others. Nonetheless, all left wherever they once lived and ventured to America – the land of opportunity.
Some parties came to these shores with a humble heart, while some others embarked on these shores with a privileged spirit. Even there were some who dared to set up added riches on the backs of the Indigenous Indians and later-in-years helpless minorities. Constructing of America would begin based on untruths and false promises… confiscating of land along with ruthless murder.
Author Gwenda Blair was courageous to document one family venture to America – The Trumps.
According to biographer Gwenda Blair, the family descended from an itinerant lawyer, Hanns Drumpf, who settled in Kallstadt, a village in the Electoral Palatinate, Germany (then the Holy Roman Empire), in 1608, and whose descendants changed their name from Drumpf to Trump during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). The last name Trump is on record in Kallstadt since the 18th century. Journalist Kate Connolly, visiting Kallstadt, found several variations in spelling of the surname in the village archives, including Drumb, Tromb, Tromp, Trum, Trumpff, and Dromb. Even remarkably diverse variations in spelling are common in German names before standardization as the wider population lacked literacy and names were transcribed from their spoken form rather than copied from documents.
Johannes Trump, born in the nearby village Bobenheim am Berg in 1789, had set up himself by the early 1830s as a winegrower in Kallstadt where his grandson, Friedrich Trump, the grandfather of Donald Trump, was born in 1869 (now part of the Kingdom of Bavaria). Several of his descendants also were vintners in Kallstadt, one of many villages in the famous wine-growing region of the Palatinate (Pfalz). Johannes Trump's sister Charlotte Louisa married Johann Georg Heinz. Their son Johann Heinrich (John Henry) Heinz (1811–1891), who emigrated to the United States in 1840, was the father of Henry J. Heinz (1844–1919), founder of the Heinz company and Donald Trump's second cousin twice removed.
This German heritage was long concealed by Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, who had grown up in a German-speaking environment until he was ten years old; after World War II and until the 1980s, he told people he was of Swedish ancestry. Donald Trump repeated this version in The Art of the Deal (1987) but later said he is "proud" of his German heritage and served as grand marshal of the 1999 German American Steuben Parade in New York City.
The Trump family in Germany were Lutheran. Donald Trump's parents attended First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, where Trump was confirmed in 1959.
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New York Times reporter Susanne Craig made the remarks while promoting the book she wrote with her colleague Russ Buettner, Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success.
The book from Craig and Buettner, who are known for reporting on Trump's tax returns, tries to dismantle the notion that the former president managed to become a self-made billionaire because of his savvy business acumen and entrepreneurial skills.
Instead, the book suggests, Trump relied on luck to build his wealth, and he was unable to grow the hundreds of millions of dollars he inherited from his father, Fred Trump, who died in 1999. The book also details how Trump suffered major losses, such as the closure of multiple casinos, and tax records show that his businesses lost more than $1 billion between 1985 and 1994.
Speaking to MSNBC'S Alex Wagner, Craig said that in his early years of business, Trump appropriated much of his cash from his father, while often suggesting he was a self-made person…
More information regarding the above can be read in the October edition of The Challenge News Magazine.
Note: Life has consequences be it good or bad. – Rev. Dr. Harold E. Bailey.
