# The Banishment of the Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banishment-of-the-trump/772668 "2016-11-21T18:25:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banishment-of-the-trump/772668/1 "2016-11-21T18:25:18Z")
Back in 1905, Donald Trump’s grandfather was ordered out of Bavaria on the pretext of not performing military service and failing to inform them of his earlier emigration. Effectually Royal tyranny spitefully deprived themselves of future Trumps forever. And ensured America would be made great again. Guardian : **[Historian finds German decree banishing Trump’s grandfather](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/trump-grandfather-friedrich-banished-germany-historian-royal-decree)** ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banishment-of-the-trump/772668/2 "2016-11-21T18:31:25Z")
[Quote=The Guardian] In an effort to overturn the royal decree dated 27 February 1905, Trump wrote an obsequious letter appealing to Prince Regent Luitpold, addressing him as “the much-loved, noble, wise and righteous sovereign and sublime ruler”. [/quote] Which, coincidentally, is how I hear Mr. Donald J. Trump prefers to be addressed by his loyal followers. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banishment-of-the-trump/772668/3 "2016-11-21T18:36:13Z")
I don’t know what this is, but it’s not about Elections. Moved to MPSIMS [/moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banishment-of-the-trump/772668/4 "2016-11-21T19:28:38Z")
Damnit - he’s everywhere! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banishment-of-the-trump/772668/5 "2016-11-22T02:21:53Z")
This story appears to put paid to Oliver’s silliness about his grandfather changing his name for immigration purposes. It sounds like “Drumpf” and “Trump” we’re both common variants in that region of Bavaria. ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banishment-of-the-trump/772668/6 "2016-11-22T18:48:21Z")
I read different news sources… Talk about SLANTING a story! The “Trump loving” Fox News headline for this story is… “Newly unearthed letter shows Trump grandfather fought to stay in Germany”!!! Source… > **[Newly unearthed letter shows Trump grandfather fought to stay in Germany](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newly-unearthed-letter-shows-trump-grandfather-fought-to-stay-in-germany)** > > An impassioned 111-year-old letter written by Donald Trump’s grandfather appealing his expulsion from his German homeland has turned up in regional German archives. (Why I rarely look at Fox News anymore except to see how they switched around a story like this.) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banishment-of-the-trump/772668/7 "2016-11-22T22:15:51Z")
If family stories are to be believed, MY grandfather got caught canoodling with the boss’ daughter and got the hell out of the old country one step ahead of a shotgun wedding, so I tend not to hold the actions of someone’s grandfather against them. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-banishment-of-the-trump/772668/8 "2016-11-23T03:03:56Z")
If only Prince Luitpold had shown mercy and allowed Herr Trump to remain in Bavaria.