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Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 9, 2016 at 8:37 am
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I just found out that the Trump family comes from a village I've actually been to, about a 20 minutes drive from where I grew up.
It's actually a quite pretty small town in the middle of the vineyards, with lots of wine making, and wine drinking.
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There don't seem to be living any Trumps any more, but there did until not too long ago, as one can tell from local gravestones
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Apparently, the Heinz family of Heinz ketchup fame also came from there.
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RE: Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 9, 2016 at 8:48 am
What country is it thooo? Germany?
Someone obviously needs to remind him of the boat trip his grandparents went on, he seems to be under some misguided illusion he's Navajo
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RE: Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 9, 2016 at 8:50 am
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(August 9, 2016 at 8:48 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: What country is it thooo? Germany?
Yup
https://www.google.de/maps/place/67169+K...4d8.177504
Quote:Someone obviously needs to remind him of the boat trip his grandparents went on, he seems to be under some misguided illusion he's Navajo
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RE: Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 9, 2016 at 9:05 am
(August 9, 2016 at 8:48 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: What country is it thooo? Germany?
There's quite a lot of American brand families coming from Germany. Such as Wilhelm Eduard Böing, probably better know for the company he founded, which would be Boeing. His parents took the boat. Or Frank Seiberling, founder of Goodyear.
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RE: Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 9, 2016 at 9:09 am
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(August 9, 2016 at 9:05 am)abaris Wrote: (August 9, 2016 at 8:48 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: What country is it thooo? Germany?
There's quite a lot of American brand families coming from Germany. Such as Wilhelm Eduard Böing, probably better know for the company he founded, which would be Boeing. His parents took the boat. Or Frank Seiberling, founder of Goodyear.
My own little village of 550 inhabitants can at least claim to be the birthplace of Frederick Lauer, first president of the American Brewer's Association 
A huge crowd of people emigrated from this region (which is for example why I mostly share a dialect with the Pennsylvania Amish) in the 19th century for economical reasons.
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RE: Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 9, 2016 at 9:12 am
(August 9, 2016 at 9:09 am)Alex K Wrote: My own little village of 550 inhabitants can at least claim to be the birthplace of Frederick Lauer, first president of the American Brewer's Association
A huge crowd of people emigrated from this region in the 19th century.
The largest groups in the 19th century came from Germany, Ireland, Italy and the Austro Hungarian Empire.
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RE: Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 9, 2016 at 9:12 am
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(August 9, 2016 at 9:05 am)abaris Wrote: There's quite a lot of American brand families coming from Germany. Such as Wilhelm Eduard Böing, probably better know for the company he founded, which would be Boeing.
It was probably a good idea to add the E rather than try keeping the umlaut but imagine all the jokes that could have been made about crash landings and the sound of 'Boing!!!', "I'm flying to Europe in a Bouncemobile". "I think the spring has gone in my seat, they must be using it in the engine" etc ....
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RE: Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 9, 2016 at 12:35 pm
Please stop sending us people, we're none too happy with the ones already here.
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RE: Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 9, 2016 at 12:37 pm
Looks like a lovely place.
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RE: Trump's immigrant background hitting close to home
August 9, 2016 at 12:50 pm
(August 9, 2016 at 12:35 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Please stop sending us people, we're none too happy with the ones already here.
Well, we exported something to Germany that your imports can't trump in any way.
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