Donald Trump is demented and deluded and he had the gall to question Obama's birth certificate.
How could anyone not know where their father was born?
The signs of Donald Trump's onset of dementia are becoming stronger and more frequent.
The GOP must be desperate for Donald Trump to stop blathering his nonsense and stop twittering.
Trump incorrectly says that his father was born in Germany
Trump incorrectly says that his father was born in Germany
BY JUSTIN WISE - 04/02/19 04:05 PM EDT
President Trump on Tuesday incorrectly said his father was from Germany while expressing frustration about the country’s payments toward NATO.
"Germany, honestly, is not paying their fair share," Trump said at the White House before noting that he has "great respect" for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and "great respect for the country."
"My father is German, was German," he continued. "Born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany."
The Washington Post said it as least the third time Trump has made this particular claim about his father, Fred Trump, who was born in New York City in 1905.
Trump’s grandfather, Friedrich Trump, was born in Germany and emigrated to the U.S. in 1885, according to a report from the Post in 2016.
After finding success in the U.S., Friedrich Trump attempted to resettle in Germany, according to The Associated Press. But the Post added that he was expelled in 1905, apparently for emigrating illegally. He returned with his wife to the U.S. when she was pregnant with Fred Trump.
Trump made the claims about his father multiple times in 2018 while discussing relations between the U.S. and European countries.
"Don’t forget both of my parents were born in EU sectors, OK?" Trump said in an interview last July. "My mother was Scotland. My father was Germany."
Fred was conceived in Bavaria, where his parents had tried unsuccessfully to re-establish residency, returning to New York upon the SS Pennsylvania on July 1, 1905.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
Here's the author who reported that:
>> Blair, speaking to PolitiFact from New York’s Central Park, said there’s no doubt that Elizabeth Trump was pregnant with Fred while she and Friedrich were still in Germany.
But there is also no question, Blair attested, that the couple had returned to New York by the time Fred was born.
"As we know, that does not make him born in Germany," Blair said. "Conceived in Germany? OK. But, born in Germany, no."
Newsweek and
The Independent reported that Trump has made the erroneous claim about his father at least four times since taking office. <<
Thus:
Most instructive is the way he phrases it:
"My father is German,
right? Was German, and born in a very wonderful place in Germany." (A place called "The Bronx" (a name that derives from Denmark via Holland) which is definitely not in Germany).
But it's most psychologically interesting that he phrases it as a question --- "
right?" --- as if to say "can I get away with this? If I revise my own history will you swallow it?"
Well let's think about tha
NO.