Donald Trump's Immigrant Roots
The Trump Family in America
Family and TRUMP’S IMMIGRANT ROOTS
Trump with an immigrant from a sh*thole country to his left,
and the child of immigrants who came through chain migration on his right.
In other words, his mother and father.
For a man who has
a thing about immigrants, Trump sure seems to have a lot of them in his family.
And for a man whose slogan is “Make America Great Again,” “again,” as in in the
past, his family really hasn’t been here very long. And for a man who reframed
and renamed “family based immigration” as “chain migration” and told his base
it was a threat to everything good and pure in the USA, there’s a lot of that,
too. Make of that what you will.
Donald Trump’s mother was an immigrant. She
came, basically, through so-called “chain-migration,” and arrived in New York City in 1930 at age 18 where she
stayed with three sisters who came first. She arrived from a place that could
easily be called a “sh*thole.” She was the youngest of ten children and from a
desolate, impoverished, and Gaelic speaking section of Scotland where the first
world war had killed a large number of the town’s men. She left, seeking a
better life overseas.
She found work as
a domestic servant. Six years later in 1936, she married Fred Trump, Jr.,
Donald Trump’s father.[1] Six
years after that, she became an American citizen. [2]
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| Three generations of Trump men. |
On
Donald Trump’s father’s side of the family, both his grandparents were
immigrants, too. Friedrich “Fred” Trump arrived from Germany, dodging the
draft, in 1885. Another chain migration case, he stayed with his sister in New
York City upon arrival. He soon moved out and did well for himself running
restaurants and low-cost brothels in Washington state and the Yukon during the
gold rush. [3] He then attempted to resettle in his
homeland, but the authorities would not forgive his draft dodging.
He returned to the
USA and settled in New York City where he managed a barber shop, then a hotel. At
the time in New York City, these businesses were often fronts for illegal activities.
A German in New York City, during world war one, he undoubtedly experienced
what it was like to be an immigrant
hated by bigots.[4] He
died of the Spanish flu during the epidemic of 1918. [5]
Since this was before Trump was born perhaps it explains why he never seemed to
have learned about either the evils of bigotry or the dangers of epidemics.
In “The Art of the
Deal,” his ghost written bestselling biography, Trump claims on page 66 that
his father came from Sweden. Trump’s father, Fred, start this lie about his own
father, because it made it easier to sell and rent property to the New York
City Jewish population.
Donald Trump’s father, Frederick Trump, Junior,
Donald Trump’s
father, Frederick Trump, Junior, made his fortune in real estate. His major
project was low rent housing built with government subsidies. In the post world
war two baby boom era, there was a great demand for such housing. [6] Although
Born in the Bronx, he told people he was born in New Jersey. Despite being the
son of immigrants, he was involved in the KKK and showed racist tendencies
throughout his life. He was investigated for profiteering. [7]
Finally, my books . . .
Yeah, I've written books. Please check them out and see if they interest you.[1]
Some sources say 1934. I’ve chosen 1936 as it matches more easily with other
statements made regarding her marriage.
[2]
Primary source: 20th May 2016
An inconvenient truth? Donald Trump's Scottish mother
was a low-earning migrant
By Martin Hannan for The National (the newspaper that
supports an independent Scotland)
https://www.thenational.scot/news/14903147.an-inconvenient-truth-donald-trumps-scottish-mother-was-a-low-earning-migrant/?fbclid=IwAR3hSYAtQadS9lx3LOubYouq8dhM9uj-xoAd1OKDtu6-B8bjPtA05cwzKgk
Secondary source: Mary
Anne MacLeod Trump, from Wikipedia. Accessed on August 9, 2020
[3]
Page 4. Johnston, David Kay. The Making of Donald Trump (2016, 2017. Melville
House, Brooklyn) He cites a biography written by Gwenda Blair as his source.
[5] “Frederick
Trump.” Wikipedia. Accessed on September 1, 2020
[6]
Page 75. Kranish, Michael and Fisher, Marc. “Trump Revealed” (2016, Simon and
Schuster, New York)
[7] Page
27-30,. Kranish, Michael and Fisher, Marc. “Trump Revealed” (2016, Simon and
Schuster, New York)
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