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The legacy of #FredTrump: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Tr... " In 1927, Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan demonstration, but there is no conclusive evidence that he supported the organization.[b][c] From World War II onward, to avoid associations with Nazism, Trump denied his German ancestry "

Fred Trump - Wikipedia
Fred Trump - Wikipedia

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" During World War II, Trump began concealing his German ancestry. Notwithstanding his German accent (later replaced by a New York one), he denied that he spoke the language. "
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" Trump later falsely claimed that he was of Swedish descent and in 1973 wrongly stated that he was born in New Jersey; these deceptions were sustained in the 1980s by Donald Trump and the author of Donald's first biograph "
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" Mary L. Trump states that #FredSr. "dismantled #FredJr by devaluing and degrading every aspect of his personality" and mocked him for his decision to become an airline pilot. In 1981, Fred Jr. died at age 42 from complications of alcoholism. "
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" Folk singer #WoodyGuthrie was a tenant of Beach Haven Apartments from 1950 to 1951.In his unrecorded song #OldManTrump, he complains about the rent and accused Trump of stirring up racial hate "in the #bloodpot of human hearts" "
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" In his 1993 biography of Donald Trump, Harry Hurt III asserts that Fred was a #philanderer, with his alleged affairs in Florida leading him to be known as the #KingofMiamiBeach "
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" Fred reputedly lectured Donald that he could "have a #ThousandMistresses" but not to get caught in a single specific #extramarital affair. "
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" jonathanbchait.bsky.social opined that many of #FredsContributions to Donald were by definition CriminalInNature. "

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Jonathan Chait (@jonathanbchait.bsky.social)

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" The Art of the Deal ghostwriter Tony Schwartz stated in 2020 that the "brutal" Fred lacked emotional intelligence, which affected his sons. In her 2020 book, #TooMuchAndNeverEnough, Mary L. Trump (a clinical psychologist) asserts that Fred was a high-functioning #sociopath "
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" who impaired Donald's #EmotionalDevelopment. According to a 2024 article in the psychohistorical journal #CliosPsyche, the "cruel" and deceptive Fred deprived Donald of "basic, life-affirming emotional nourishment" "
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" (while calling him a "killer", etc.), resulting in Donald's "absence of moral responsibility". Following Donald Trump's arrest in New York in 2023, some media outlets pointed out that his father had been arrested twice. " This why whenever I encounter #DarkTriad theory I think of #FamilyTrump.
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Digging into this a bit more just led me to read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H... #JamesHFallon (October 18, 1947 – November 20, 2023) was an American #neuroscientist bsky.app/profile/math...

James H. Fallon - Wikipedia
James H. Fallon - Wikipedia