Why Trump rallied at MSG: Nazis often did

I've got dementia and I'm old (80). I don't care what I say or do, I just have to stay out of jail.

Pres. Don John Trump's German dad, Fred Trunf, participated in a Nazi rally and white supremacist racist parade on the streets of New York, possibly ending up at Madison Square Garden. In any case, we know this because Father Trump was arrested for his racist outpouring of hate, which he taught his son, almost as if Hitler had had a father.

A Night at the Garden | An American Nazi Rally in 1939 | POV

(PBS) In 1939, 20,000 Neo-Nazi Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism – an event largely forgotten from American history.

A Night at the Garden uses striking archival fragments recorded that night to transport modern audiences into this gathering and shine a light on the disturbing fallibility of seemingly decent [white] people.

Trump campaign backpedals after racist, fascist Madison Square Garden rally: A Closer Look

(Late Night with Seth Meyers) Jewish Seth Meyers takes a closer look at Republicans and the Trump campaign distancing themselves from a racist comment at Trump's fascistic rally at Madison Square Garden that sparked ab immediate backlash.

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Pres. Donald Trump's racist German family

In 1927, Don Trump's father Fred Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan meeting and demonstration. There is no conclusive proof, other than he presence there and arrest, that he supported all of the organization's goals [b, c].

From WW II onwards, to avoid further associations with Nazism, Fred Trump denied his German ancestry (and Nazi sympathies), even supporting Jewish causes [d, e, f], at least the white Ashkenazi/European Jewish kind since many of those kinds of Jews were German.

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Early life and career

Fred Trump (far left) with his German Trunf family, circa 1915

The Germanic American Friedrich Trunf Trump, amassed considerable wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush by running a brothel (house of prostitution) and eatery for miners trying to get rich quick.

Friedrich returned to Kallstadt in 1901 and, by the next year, met and married Lizzy Christ [17]. They moved to NYC, where their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1904 [18]. Later that year, the family returned to Kallstadt [19]. Fred was conceived in Bavaria, where his parents wished to re-establish residency, but Friedrich was banished for dodging the draft [20, 19].

The family returned to New York on July 1, 1905, and moved to the Bronx, where [Donald Trump's father] Frederick Christ Trump was born on October 11 [21]. Fred's younger brother, John G. Trump, was born in 1907.

All three children were raised speaking German [22] with severe German discipline. In September 1908, the family moved to Woodhaven, Queens [23].

Many details of Trump's childhood come from autobiographical accounts and emphasize independence, learning, and especially hard work – to the point of being fictional [24][g].

At the age of 10, Trump worked as a delivery boy for a butcher [27]. About two years later, on Memorial Day, his German father died in the 1918 flu pandemic [28]. More

• PBS, July 12, 2020; Late Night with Seth Meyers, Oct. 28, 2024; Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit "Fred Trump"