Can we stop calling him "Drumpf"?
My understanding is that "Drumpf" was Trump's father's, or maybe grandfather's, name, and he changed it to make it sound more American. Drumpf was German.
When someone calls Trump "Drumpf," I guess they're trying to remind readers of Trump's immigrant, specifically German, ancestry. The implication seems to me to be "Look, he's German; he must be evil." I think DU is better than to think that way. In the last century, an evil man led Germany and brought out the evil in many -- too many -- of his countrymen. That is a stain on German history. But that does not make Germans evil generally, nor does it give anyone license to refer to them as such.
For the record -- I guess it's relevant here -- I'm Jewish, and I have close friends who are German. I simply don't think my friends are responsible for the Holocaust, so I see no reason not to have them as friends.
The Drumpf thing just sounds racist to me. Trump would be a nightmare of a president. That is not because his ethnicity is part German.
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To imply that Trump's ancestry has anything to do with his rhetoric, would be a slap in the face of tens of million of good German-Americans who won't have anything to do with hate speech and whose immigrant forbears were attacked and discriminated in the same way the Irish, Italians, Polish, and Chinese were in the 19th century.
It would also be an insult - even if unintended - to the memory of Baron von Steuben, Chester Nimitz, Dwight Eisenhower, Neil Armstrong, John Jacob Astor, Bill Boeing, Henry Heinz, Walter Reuther, Kurt Vonnegut, and so many others who enriched our lives (not to mention the many prominent German Jews in U.S. history).
It's simply a matter of respect. 
Once you memorize them (or some at least), it makes typing foreign names a lot easier. It really helps with Spanish and French, more so even than German. Tchüß!
It's far more descriptive.
Teaching tolerance never ends. Excellent work!
or is it a trope? 
has NO sense of humor!
dubya used to give everybody a nickname, I think he called rove "Turd blossom", so if it's good enough for dubya, it's good enough for me
Totally agree. 
...the alliteration! So tempting..
we can't...his hypocrisy is epic and needs to be called out..it has nothing to do with national groups (i'm part german)
Personally, i prefer Drumpfenfueher...gets both his immigrant roots and his Hitler imitation at once
I saw this on Facebook and had to laugh.
just because the FACTS have been pointed out. Also, when did Germany become a race of people, I must have missed that memo.
FFJH,
I've been seeing the name tossed around du lately and never made the German connection. I just figured it was a rhyme on his name like the Trumpster. It's hard for me to view Trump as anything other than American......just as much as P.T. Barnum - who also was born in the US, was a Republican, served four terms in the Connecticut Legislature and was mayor of Bridgeport, Conn. He also ran for Congress but lost to a 3-rd cousin - perhaps the man who invented the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute" didn't aim high enough.....
I'm wondering if the League of Women Voters were still running the debates instead of the cable networks whether Trump would be in the lead for the Republican spot. I think that once the debates were turned into a profit making enterprise for the media it led to this - the debates being pushed to deliver high ratings above all else. Though recently I looked up what Ted Cruz's 5 point plan is about and I must admit he is trying hard to make Trump look like the rational one........ Whatever happened to the more centralist members of the party like Weicker and Baker back in the 70's - it's pretty sad where it is today.....
Another thing to ponder is if Trump obtains the nomination - how do you think he will go about selecting his VP? I'm imagining the candidates on one table and across the room Trump sitting with some of his advisers at another table facing them. Just like his old reality show,..... you can hear the sound track - dum dum DUM........
burfman......
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Etymology of "Tweety". During Campaign 2000 the media noise machine was swooning over the nicknames Shrub was giving some of them. Media Whores Online ran a contest to nickname Chris MATTHEWS. In the first three or so weeks, there was no clear, catchy front runner, with "The Screamer" sort of leading. Then one of MATTHEWS's own Hardball staff leaked to MWO that they themselves called him "Tweety" because of the Clairol shade of hair coloring he favored. This was immediately declared the winner. But in some quarters, it wasn't entirely satisfactory. For one thing, by the time the name was declared, the shade had changed to platinum, leading to a suggestion he be called "Carole LOMBARD".
Plus, "Tweety" sounded too affectionate.
Then M-TV held its 20th or 25th or whatever anniversary, and all the cable echo chambers were doing segments of Britney shedding her duds down to almost nothing. Not to be left behind, Tweety followed suit, with a guest "culture" commentator from Time Mag, the young humor columnist, Joel STEIN. The staff kept re-running the Britney clip, and Tweety was clearly DROOLING disgustingly. STEIN said, "You're beginning to creep me out." Tweety responded, "Yeah, well, wait till YOU're 50." This led to the suggestion that "Tweety" be modified to "Tweezer" to retain the hair reference while canceling out the affection factor and also adding the (dirty old) "geezer" angle.
Darrell HAMMOND "Doing" Tweety on SNL. Tweety's ego was massively stroked after the debut of HAMMOND's impersonation of him, either in 2001 or 2002. He said, "I am now an ICON: I have been 'done' on Saturday Night Live'." The funniest line in the debut was HAMMOND as Tweety, cracking himself up with, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]"For the ... FIFTY ... people who watch this show[/FONT]...” (Hardball, not SNL). In the first few times HAMMOND featured him, the target was Tweety himself -- manically interrupting, spitting, and drooling. However, the characterization evolved, not true to the original, where Tweety became the "rational" character surrounded by oddball, extremist "guests", with HAMMOND-Tweety shaking his head in disbelief at their partisan spin.
"Turning" from Being a Democrat. He (like G.E.RUSSERT and Pat CADDELL) still trades on having been a Democrat in the CARTER/O'NEILL era. In the hothouse of big time political flunkydom, STATUS and POWER come from the SUCCESS of your boss. RAYGUN kicked Tweety's bosses' rears, and Tweety gravitated to admiring that "success". When he started up his media career he was mentored by G.E. RUSSERT, who had himself already started "turning" by "reaching out" to LIMBOsevic and expending his formerly-Lib-bleeding-heart on those poor wingnuts who had been maligned and marginalized by the Liberal Elite, lo those many years. Tweety started doing video valentines to RAYGUN, promenading arm in arm with Nancy. He might have tapped into the frenzy of the FAKE impeachment, but "hatred of the CLINTONs" isn't what made him turn. The last time he was identifiably a Democrat was sometime around 1988 when Hardball (the book) was published. Throughout the year of Campaign 2000 he savaged the Dem candidate daily and went on to years of bromance over Shrub, renouncing any Democratic heritage. He said his parents were “cloth coat" (Rethugs), and that basically what first drew him to the Dem side was Irish-Catholic pride over JFK. Not ideology, not idealism. He said the reason he joined the Peace Corps was specifically to avoid going to Vietnam.
How Tweety "Executed" DONAHUE on MSNBC. Tweety was on his book tour for another one of his "books" (large type, wide spaces between lines, blank half-pages). It was in the jingoistic hysteria in the run-up to the illegal Iraq attack. The book was about supposed "Americanism" -- an American Civ 101 ripoff about books and movies and cultural stuff that are essentially American (think, "The Great Gatsby"
. So Phil welcomed him as a colleague and peer on Phil's MSNBC show for the full hour to plug the book. From the moment he appeared, there was a strange, deadly snake look in Tweety's snake eyes. Phil was walking around the audience, apparently not sensing anything, while Tweety was motionless, following him only with his eyes. Phil brought up something or other questioning blind, kneejerk jingoism, and Tweety STRUCK! He started out with venom dripping, "You see, THIS is EXACTLY what's wrong with YOU Liberals: You are NEGATIVE about this country, you find NOTHING good about it," and on and on. It took awhile before Phil figured out what was happening. Later, Phil, devastated and spent, was sitting at the table with Tweety and, weaker and weaker, did some of his trademark shoulder shrugging and arm waving. Tweety delivered the coup de grace, "What's THIS (mimicking the movements)??!! What's with the --APE-- movements???!" Days or a week or two later, Phil's cancellation was announced and took effect.
How Tweety "Triggered" a Gun Incident (re: Kathleen WILLEY). At the height of the FAKE impeachment, Ms WILLEY claimed that a mystery jogger had threatened her or her cat or somebody, with the insinuation that there was a CLINTON connection. Several months later, there was gossip that the jogger had been identified. Tweety hosted her and it appeared they had discussed the identity off camera. He tried mightily to get her to say the name on the air, which she wouldn't do. Finally, he himself blurted it out, "Was it (Name/Surname)?" She wouldn’t confirm it. Within days there was a bizarre incident, with the mentally disabled brother of Pat and Bay BUCHANAN going with a gun to the house of the supposed jogger named by Tweety, where there were only some foreign exchange students present. Later it was determined that the person Tweety named on the air had NOTHING to do with the supposed jogger incident.
"Heroes" Tweety and Tom DeLAY. In the aftermath of the 07-24-98 shooting of two Capitol police officers when the slain officers were duly eulogized and called heroes, Tweety latched on to this, the way we have seen him attempt to glorify himself in other instances: Like saying he was assigned to Africa in the Peace Corps and "WALKED THE SAME GROUND" THAT CHURCHILL had passed through. Or when he said, "I am an ICON! I have been 'done' by SNL!". So now that the Capitol policemen were being called heroes, Tweety came forward to say that HE had been a Capitol policemen, TOO, JUST LIKE THEM, when he was starting out. It turns out that he had worked a (temporary?) job for three months as that. In all the years before the officers were shot and eulogized, he probably NEVER referred to that job, most likely thinking of it as a rent-a-cop turn, until he could see in retrospect the glory that he had been DESTINED to from the beginning.
But he is not the only glory hog. When that incident was happening, the news of the moment reported that Tom DELAY had hopped a plane out of town and immediately turned around in Houston when the incident was over. This show of courage is why he has been dubbed, "Tom-DePLANE!-DePLANE!-DELAY".
But searches of countless news reports of that time show no mention of the hopping-the-plane. Only this is left:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm /... "...House members, many rushing out of town, did not have to remain behind. DeLay slipped out the main door of the Capitol less than 15 minutes after the shooting. He looked stricken. Asked if he'd seen anything, he said, "Did I ever. I don't want to talk about it." Aides rushed him into his waiting car. ...."
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He is not of Japanese Ancestry....
Unlike the Trumpbots who were extremely rude to him...
https://twitter.com/JoeTheWonderful/status/710167339468197888
He should be proud of his heritage!!
I'm with Oliver on this one!
