Merz bjuder in Trump till farfars tyska by
Den nye tyska förbundskanslern Friedrich Merz verkar ha en plan för att börja sin mandatperiod på god fot med Donald Trump. Under en näringslivssammankomst i Berlin uppger Merz att han bjudit in tyskättade Trump till byn Kallstadt, där hans farfar Frederick Trump växte upp på 1800-talet. Det skriver Politico.
– Jag har bjudit honom till Tyskland, för att besöka hans förfäders stad. Jag kommer åka dit tillsammans med honom, säger Merz.
Det är ännu oklart om den amerikanska presidenten kommer att tacka ja till inbjudan.
Donald Trump har flera gånger lyft fram sitt tyska arv offentligt. Men fram till 2016 hade han aldrig besökt Kallstadt, skriver Politico.
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Frederick Trump
Wikipedia (en)
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump; German: [fʁi:dʁɪç tʁʊmp]; March 14, 1869 – May 30, 1918) was a German-American businessman. He was the patriarch of the Trump family and the paternal grandfather of the 45th and 47th U.S. president, Donald Trump.
Born and raised in Kallstadt, Germany, in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria, Trump immigrated to the United States in 1885. In 1891, he began speculating in real estate in Seattle. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he moved to the Yukon and made his fortune by operating a restaurant and a brothel for miners in Whitehorse.
In 1901, Trump returned to Kallstadt and married Elisabeth Christ. As he had purportedly immigrated to the United States in order to evade conscription, the Bavarian Government stripped him of his citizenship in 1905. Consequently, he returned to the United States with his family.
Trump worked as a barber and manager of a restaurant-hotel and was beginning to acquire real estate in Queens when he died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
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