(09-24-2024, 04:05 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote: As far as I know Trump's earliest known male ancestor is Johann Philipp Drumpft. Donald Trump's grandfather Frederick Trump immigrated to the United States in 1885 at the age of 16. His grandfather didn't use the name Drumpf, although that had been the original spelling of the family's name, it had already been changed during the reign of Napoleon around the turn of the 19th century, according to the transportation association in Kallstadt.
The Germans in Kallstadt cannot understand the name use of Drumpf for Donald Trump either. I never have either.
What Trump's ancestral village in Germany thinks of him
That's interesting information, but it still doesn't make it make sense to me that Left-wing folk think that "Drumpf" is some kind of pejorative, especially in light of the fact that it hasn't even been used in Germany in over 200 years, before the Trumps even migrated.
Are they trying to make fun of him because his family were immigrants? if that's the case, they've got a whole lot of Americans to piss off before they're done.
My oldest Male ancestor whose name was recorded was named "Odin". No last name, just Odin. He lived on the Jutland Peninsula of what is now Denmark around the time of Christ's birth, in a little village supposedly named "Asgard" - yeah, I know, kinda creepy, eerie and spooky, but that's what the records state. I don't demand that folks worship me as a Norse god, however. That wouldn't make sense to me, either. If people called me "Odin", I'd just look at them funny - that "you're kinda special, ain't ya?" look. It wouldn't offend me that they couldn't spell my name right.
My oldest male ancestor that even had two names was a Northman named Robert le Wricte, who came to England in 1066 with Guillaume the Bastard (otherwise known as William the Conqueror), because some folks wanted to kill some folks, tear some stuff up, and steal a crown. I reckon they got 'er done. Anyhow, we spell the name "Wright" now, not "le Wricte" or "Wryghta" - another old variant, and if someone misspelled it the old way, they'd get pretty much the same reception as if they had called me "Odin"... I'd wonder about their intellect, and be certain they had problems with spelling at the very least. I'd probably pity them more than feel offended.
Ragnar Lodbrok is also my direct ancestor, through both Bjorn Yrnsida and Ivar the Boneless... but if folks started referring to me as "Boneless", I'd just wonder what kind of "bones" they were talking about - were they calling me "Spineless", or what? I'd be too busy scratching my head to be offended.
In America, after folks got to invading here, readin' and writin', and especially spellin', were at a premium because most folks didn't have any of those. The ones that did tended to spell phonetically rather than by any set convention. So, as a result, I've got a branch of the family tree that is now "Viers", but once upon a time was "Via" I have another branch that is now "Roach", but was once "Roche". One that is now "Mc Glothlin", but once was "McLaughlin", and before McLaughlin, was something else that I can't even spell in Gaelic. There are many more like that, and at least one STILL isn't settled - Mac Ilvaine, McElwain, MCElwayne, and one entertaining branch of that one has changed their name to "Wayne" because they want to falsely claim kinship with General "Mad Anthony" Wayne - No, we're not in the least related, and neither are they.
My point is, that names change over time for various reasons, but calling me by an old, outdated name wouldn't be perceived by me as an insult, so why do Leftists think it's some kind of insult to misname Trump as "Drumpf"?
I may just be too lowbrow - it's just flying right over my head. I don't have the intellectual horsepower to figure out what in the hell they're getting at... or at least TRYING to get at, anyhow.
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