By Tony O'Riley-
American president, Donald Trump, needs constant reminding of his German heritage, so that he doesn’t forget he is also the product of immigrants .
Trump, once denied his German heritage in a book he co- authored, in an attempt to conceal any genetic connections to the Germans. For decades, Trump denied this German heritage altogether, instead claiming that his grandfather’s roots lay further north, in Scandinavia. “[He] came here from Sweden as a child,” Trump said in his co-written book, ‘The Art of the Deal’
On October 7, 1885, his father, Friedrich Trump- a 16-year-old German barber- bought a one-way ticket for America, to escape three years of compulsory German military service. Friedrick had been a sickly child, unsuited to hard labour, but Germans were viewed at the time as highly desirable migrants—and Trump was welcomed with open arms. Less than a fortnight later, he arrived in New York, where he made a fortune, though a small one.
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Fred Trump decided to dump his German ancestry to avoid upsetting Jewish friends and clients, but we now know that his son Donald Trump, was a direct beneficiary of his grandfather’s migration to the United States. Born in New York City, the city where his Scottish mother met and married his father, himself the child of immigrants from Germany, Donald Trump was the fourth of five children born to Frederick Christ and Mary MacLeod Trump.
He picked up the real-estate business from his father, who took over the family construction business at the age of 13 when Frederick’s father (Donald’s grandfather) died in the influenza epidemic of 1918. Instead of spouting intolerable words of hatred, the U.S president needs to remember that he is a descendant of Germany, and was himself the product of immigration
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