Weird
You know, I’m not often proud of Germany, but to expell this guys grandfather and revoke his citizenship when he wanted to move back to Germany might have been the best thing that happened to the country in the last 200 years.
I mean, grandpappy Trump ran a brothel and speculated on land. Not the most… Reputable man.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with brothels now, if and when they are properly regulated, but in 1885+ I don’t think they had many rights.)
Ironically he was expelled (by royal degree no less) for skipping out on mandatory military service. Twice. Didn’t even made an excuse like bones spurs or something.
But yeah, making money by exploiting the vulnerable lays in the family at least since the brothels of the gold rush.
You see in the original universe, Trump’s grandfather was never expelled in 1904 The Trumps became rich and successful in Germany, and when the Nazis came along, the Trump family was right there with them.
After the war, the Trumps pulled a BMW and managed to survive the backlash, becoming as powerful, or more than they had been before WW2, and when neo-fascists started to pop out of the wood-work in the late 2000’s, it was in Germany that DJT (or as he was known in that universe Gerhardt Johann Trump) rallied the far-right to take power in Germany, leading to another world war which ended when the USA dropped a nuke on Berlin.
In the chaos that followed, one man invented a time machine, travelled back through time and arranged for Trump’s grandfather to be deported by making it impossible to fulfill his military service and thereby creating a new timeline in which Trump ends up in America.
Opa Trump got rich with brothels and liquor during the gold rush in the US. Not because he was such a hard worker and awesome bussinessman that he pulled himself by the bootstraps into the millions. But by the fortune that he found enough women to exploit and that there were a lot of lonely men paying for it in gold.
I believe he would have never had the chance to make big money in europe at the time. He wouldn’t have skipped out on military service and would have been conscripted early into WW1 and would have possibly died at the Somme or Verdune. The family would have sunken into poverty and obscurity without a breadwinner and nobody would have even heard of any of these Clowns.
Anyone have a video link? Sounds like this was savage as fuuuuuck.
https://www.youtube.com/live/yjN5dvDTeaE?si=E7gxVsc57QIdLF9L
Question is at 1 hour and 13 minutes.
jesus fucking christ
why did he even go to that event? he’s already got the racist vote in the bag, and it doesn’t seem like he put a molecule of effort into convincing any attendees that he’s the best choice. actually nvm, he’s just fucking stupid and incompetent on top of being racist af
The submission title of “earning trust” is fucking hilarious but it speaks to your question. Trump has appeared before an audience of Bitcoin enthusiasts in recent days. He’s apparently open to reaching out to crowds that aren’t his core MAGA audience at this particular moment.
Knowing as we do now that this event went to shit for him, it’s easy to look back and say it wasn’t strategic for him to do it, but for the campaign manager planning the event, it was probably an easier call than letting him debate Joe Biden was, and he [will be perceived as having] “nailed that,” right?
How do you not have an answer ready to go for that question when agreeing to go do that interview?
I don’t need a speechwriter because I’m a great speaker, probably one of the best there is on the stages these days…that’s what people are saying what people are talking…look…there has never been a better person who…jeez you think someone like Obama could…should…Obama couldn’t rile up a crowd of people like me like I…there’s a thing that…when we when I get on stage and sleepy Joe is over there doing his…sleepy Joe and laffin’ Kamala the blac…they can’t put together full sentences with the mastry of me of my that I…
He doesn’t need to prepare answers when he has a generic template for everything. “I’m the best at [blank]”. He even changed it up a little this time with “. . . since [historical figure]”.
Now accept that answer at face value and you, too, can be a standard Republican voter.
Welp…I guess that answers the question of why the NABJ invited him.
It’s more technical then that. They’re a 501(c)(3) non-profit, which has some clear rules around politics. They can’t specifically endorse a candidate. If they invite one candidate for a race, they also have to invite the others in the same race. Those candidates don’t necessarily have to show up, but they have to be offered the chance.
Mind you, churches make a mockery of these rules all the time and get away with it.
It seems the NABJ invited both Kamala and the trumpster fire. Kamala’s team couldn’t make the date and suggested video conference. The head of NABJ then cancelled Kamala’s appearance, rather than make it work. Not sure why but they choose that but we got delicious news out of it.
