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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsthe inbred family tree of the deranged demagogue (courtesy of DU'er McMike)
Here's an ancestry tree link, via wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry_of_Donald_Trump
Scroll down, you'll see it. Here's a summary: D Rump's mom, Mary MacLeod, her dad was Malcolm MacLeod.
Malcolm's parents were 2 people named Alexander MacLeod and Ann MacLeod, Ann was a MacLeod who married a MacLeod. Ann's parents were Alexander MacLeod and Ann MacKenzie. (That's a different Alexander, so she married a guy who was named after her father.) Malcolm's dad Alexander MacLeod had a father-in law named Alexander MacLeod. And Malcolm's dad Alexander was the offspring of William MacLeod and Carol MacLeod, Carol was a MacLeod who married a MacLeod. Both of Malcolm's parents and 3/4 of his grandparents were MacLeods.
So Prez Shithole, Mr. 'Great Genes', comes from a super inbred family tree. 5 out of 6 of his lovely mom's progenitors on her dad's side of the family are MacLeods. Looking at the family tree on dRump mom Mary and her dad Malcolm's side, 7 out of 8 people were born MacLeod. If there was ever a family gathering where Malcolm took his daughter Mary, his mom's mom must have felt a bit out of place.
D rump's mom was born a ball of fingers. Like Steve Forbes. Luckily those people were royal family relatives, so they had the necessary money and connections to get her corrective surgery. The results are the picture you posted.
Lars39
(26,110 posts)I remember reading this at the time it was posted...just jaw-dropping. And explains quite a bit.
niyad
(113,494 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)MacLeod 's have their own clan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_MacLeod
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niyad
(113,494 posts)PatSeg
(47,549 posts)was born in Tong, a very small town with a population of 527. It is likely that there were many people with the same last name.
While researching my family tree, I found many small communities in colonial America where there were only a handful of surnames and if you didn't marry a relation, you may not marry at all. Some were not necessarily closely related, though it was not uncommon or unacceptable to marry a 1st or 2nd cousin.
niyad
(113,494 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)Probably half the people on Skye--especially in that era--were named MacLeod and most of the rest were MacDonalds. Population in that era maybe 20,000? But yeah, sure, "inbred."
malaise
(269,111 posts)children were born in the Caribbean. The daughter migrated to England and married her mother's brother's son.
I found the idea of marrying a first cousin quite shocking.