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Do DUers think the Con's Scottish mother fed him with stories about the three Scottish Kings named Donald.
His obsession with British royalty and his desire to be king is not normal.
Dems should ridicule him about this - it will further piss him off.
spanone
(135,844 posts)malaise
(269,034 posts)King Donald IV aka Dotard the Dictator
spanone
(135,844 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)King Donald the Tiny.
malaise
(269,034 posts)Itsy bitsy Dotard
Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)I rather like it!
malaise
(269,034 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,908 posts)malaise
(269,034 posts)Only if you're talking about that toilet brand Royal.
Kid Berwyn
(14,908 posts)malaise
(269,034 posts)Different Drummer
(7,621 posts)dalton99a
(81,514 posts)malaise
(269,034 posts)Isn't that the (ham)berder king?
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)At that display? Hamberders on silver trays? How absurd. Those young men invited to that feast were probably snickering at that faux pas. Even the athletes knew better. But tRump thought he was doing it up proud.
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)He's just a criminal who hasn't faced any consequences - yet.
malaise
(269,034 posts)one way or the other
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)maybe she didn't like him too much. He obviously wasn't encouraged to read or better himself.
A meme posted repeatedly on Facebook in recent days attributes a supposed quote about President Donald Trump to his late mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, but theres no evidence she ever said it.
Yes, hes an idiot with zero common sense, and no social skills, but he IS my son, the dubious statement reads. I just hope he never goes into politics. Hed be a disaster.
malaise
(269,034 posts)babylonsister
(171,070 posts)Right?!!!!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)After ALFONSO THE SLOBBERER, who was the King of Galicia from 1188-1230. He apparently earned his nickname because he foamed at the mouth when enraged.
malaise
(269,034 posts)HAB911
(8,904 posts)she (and the father) ignored him
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)based on looking at Burke's Peerage and seeing Mary MacLeod's name mentioned so many times.
He was proud of his German heritage, except around WWII through the '80's, then the family was Swedish, I guess. But he went to Scotland to import his bride. Like some rich Americans buy a castle over there. Went to a royal blood family with clout and lineage but less finances than him. Mary's dad was a MacLeod, his mom and dad were both MacLeods pre-marriage, 3/4s of their parents were born MacLeods.
I think the Rump family probably had some small amount of german royal blood, and that Fred was a bund er. He was busted rioting as a klansman pre-WWII because he was a bund er. So we have the worst of both worlds, Fred and Donnie are royalists and fascists, simultaneously. Little donnie is always trying to foist himself off onto the British Royals, claiming kinship. Always bragging about his great genes.
Donnie aims to be King Hitler MacLeod.
When he was a snot nose dirty faced grubby obnoxious little punk running around in Damian Omen style short pants, his parents told him he was a royal blooded prince and it was o.k. to assault the help, which they considered to be everyone else except people more powerful than them, who they were scared of. He internalized that and turned it on his parents, and they tossed him into a military 'themed' school to straighten him out.
He came out knowing he couldn't attack the parents or family, or any important people above them, but he was greatly damaged before he went in, and none of that got fixed, he's the same little sneering damian thorpe asshole, but with a veneer of wasp business organizational socialization laid over his sucky damaged persona.
malaise
(269,034 posts)fisher folks.
https://www.insideedition.com/see-house-where-president-trumps-mother-grew-scotland-48027
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He doesn't talk about it much, but President Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, grew up poor in the fishing village of Tong in the Scottish Highlands.
Inside Edition visited the tiny village and the home where MacLeod lived together with her parents and nine siblings. The home remains in the family.
Local historical writer Ian Stephen told Inside Edition that times were tough when MacLeod was growing up.
This was not an easy place to make a living, he said. You have displaced communities; this is the aftermath of the First World War, between the wars, uneasy political times, and depression. So here we have someone who had very little choice but to try and make a new life."
In 1930, when she was only 17, MacLeod decided to pack her bags and move from her humble home all the way to New York City, where she planned to work as a maid. She left home with only $50 in her pocket and no plans to return.
She arrived on Ellis Island by ship. Immigration records described her as having fair hair, a fair complexion, blue eyes and standing 5-foot-8.
dalton99a
(81,514 posts)Donald Trump's Mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, is Key to Understanding the President's Deep Insecurity
Nina Burleigh , National Politics Correspondent
On 12/28/17 at 8:10 AM EST
Parishioners at the Stornoway High Church on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland still remember the dignified blonde who came back from America every summer. She walked with a formal, erect posture, provoking whispers about how she'd picked up her "airs and graces" in New York, where she'd married a rich man. But mostly they remember her speaking Gaelic as though she'd never left the island.
The woman, Mary Anne MacLeod, is the mother of Donald Trump, the aggressive rich kid turned real estate mogul turned President of the United States. And the contrast between her humble immigrants roots and the 1950s McMansion where she wound up is the key to understanding Trump's deep insecurity.
MacLeod spent the first 17 years of her life in Tong, a fishing village on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, closer to Iceland than to London. Though her son was raised in a mansion in Queens, she grew up among poor islanders in a two-bedroom rented cottage crammed with her and 10 siblings.
The MacLeods lived several miles from their church, on a tidal flat the locals called "the saltings." At certain times of day, the muck turned into quicksand as the tide rose. To get to church on Sundaya daylong affairthe family would pick their way across the flats in muck bootsa perilous journey that only fishing families would even attempt because people frequently drowned. On every other day of the week, MacLeod's family worked hard, digging peat to burn, hauling fishing nets in the icy rain and farming meager crops they grew in the rocky soil.
As a girl, MacLeod saw few examples of how rich people lived. An English opium baron named Matheson had purchased the entire island in the mid-19th century and built himself a turreted gray stone Victorian castle on a plot of land overlooking Stornoway. The family's church was on Matheson Road, a street lined with small but handsome brick mansions belonging to the families of local merchants. To distinguish themselves from their impoverishedand often fish-smellingcounterparts, residents of these mansions forbade the poor to walk on their street. That ban would have included MacLeod and her family, local residents say.
malaise
(269,034 posts)King fish
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Scottish fishing village for a wife? I know his dad went back to germany to buy his way into society there with the bordello money, and couldn't get back in, so brought back a german spouse.
What kind of business did Friedrich have in the poverty stricken highland fishing village? How come 3/4 of Mary's great grandparents and both her dad's parents were MacLeods?
They were stacking up royal blood, and Friedrich was in the market.
malaise
(269,034 posts)and he was no proud German. His grandfather was banished from Germany - the original draft dodger in the family. He ran a brothel.
Funny the Con pretended to be Swedish for quite some time - he was really ashamed of his background.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)malaise
(269,034 posts)dalton99a
(81,514 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)blm
(113,063 posts)As elevated by the Royalists of todays Republican Party.
malaise
(269,034 posts)blm
(113,063 posts)End up supporting the monarchists.
malaise
(269,034 posts)Vinca
(50,276 posts)he appeared in that ill-fitting penguin suit next to her.
malaise
(269,034 posts)but the fact that his children crashed the state banquet must have been way more hilarious to those Victorian sensibilities
Trueblue Texan
(2,430 posts)I think the Republicans should get used to that designation, see how they really like it. I think they need to go ahead and start bowing down and kissing his feet literally instead of the groveling figurative way they've been doing it since Jan 20, 2017.