# Trump's grandfather and the sex trade **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368 "2016-03-27T16:53:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/21 "2016-03-29T15:06:23Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Like father, like grandson. [Concerned, anti-smoking voice] Think about it, won’t you? [/C A-SV] ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/22 "2016-03-29T20:57:46Z")
> [@davida03801](#): > > So grandsons pay for the sins of their grandfathers. Is that what your suggest ? **Unto the Third and Fourth Generation of them that hate Me** Any of Donald’s manse-dwelling forefathers on the distaff side could have told you that. Plus he’s a Christ. Personally I’d rather be descended from putative German brothel-owners than presbyterian meenisters any-day — and then again the Hebrew testaments seem sillier and sillier the more one reads them. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/23 "2016-03-29T21:03:02Z")
Come to think about it, that generations thing was not infrequently used to make banal moralising points against the children of syphilitics back in the good old days. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/24 "2016-03-29T21:03:27Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Clearly, Donald Trump should change his name to avoid association with this shameful familial history. What could he change it to…? The Drumpf of Monte Cristo…! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/25 "2016-03-29T21:20:45Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > So what? My ancestors were Scottish pirates and wreckers, Cornish pirates and wreckers, Vikings, possibly Scottish royalty, and Scouse slavers. So, all royalty then? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/26 "2016-03-29T21:40:35Z")
It matters because of how Trump got his money. When you are rich because of your family, what your family did to become rich matters. Now, granted, it’s two generations removed, so it doesn’t matter a whole lot. But it is relevant–especially when we see behaviors that seem to have been passed down the family tree. Forget the brothel part. It’s the exploitative businessman part that is relevant. And it’s the same business Grandson Trump is in today. And no one holds Trump responsible for his name change. Don’t make up strawman. The point is just to help remove the social programming we have to think that “Trump” means classy or rich. It’s to deprive Trump of the one thing he uses to do everything he does: his brand. Instead of “Trump” the mythical creature, he is “Drumpf,” the man with a slightly silly sounding name. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/27 "2016-03-29T21:50:42Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > And no one holds Trump responsible for his name change. Don’t make up strawman. The point is just to help remove the social programming we have to think that “Trump” means classy or rich. It’s to deprive Trump of the one thing he uses to do everything he does: his brand. Instead of “Trump” the mythical creature, he is “Drumpf,” the man with a slightly silly sounding name. So A/ You think ‘foreign’ names are _ipso facto_ ‘silly’. Good to know, B/ You think the brand ‘Trump’ means classy. Good to know. ---
**Author:** ![Goofus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@Goofus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goofus)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/28 "2016-03-29T23:36:06Z")
Leaving aside the question of whether Grampy Trump ran a brothel, what I want to know is: if Donald Trump opens a brothel someday, what should he name it? My suggestion: T’Rump ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/29 "2016-03-30T07:22:55Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Turns out that Trump’s grandfather is not running for president. I wouldn’t have voted for Joe Kennedy, the bootlegger, either. Nor Gerald Ford’s wife-beating dead-beat biological father. I’m with you. I didn’t vote for that killer Laura Bush when she ran. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/30 "2016-03-30T07:26:23Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It matters because of how Trump got his money. When you are rich because of your family, what your family did to become rich matters. Now, granted, it’s two generations removed, so it doesn’t matter a whole lot. But it is relevant–especially when we see behaviors that seem to have been passed down the family tree. > > Forget the brothel part. It’s the exploitative businessman part that is relevant. And it’s the same business Grandson Trump is in today. LOL. And, the same business Hillary and Bernie are in also. Politicians who steal from one group to give to another so that they, themselves, can profit. I guess their relationship to ol’ Gramps is closer than we knew. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/31 "2016-03-30T07:28:20Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > So, all royalty then? Awesome! ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/32 "2016-03-30T14:00:21Z")
> [@Goofus](#): > > Leaving aside the question of whether Grampy Trump ran a brothel, what I want to know is: if Donald Trump opens a brothel someday, what should he name it? Leaving aside the question of what he should name it, one thing I can assure you is that if Donald Trump opened a brothel it would be **the best brothel ever!** ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368/33 "2016-03-30T18:50:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by BigT View Post > > > [@](#): > > > > It matters because of how Trump got his money. When you are rich because of your family, what your family did to become rich matters. Now, granted, it’s two generations removed, so it doesn’t matter a whole lot. But it is relevant–especially when we see behaviors that seem to have been passed down the family tree. > > > > Forget the brothel part. It’s the exploitative businessman part that is relevant. And it’s the same business Grandson Trump is in today. > > LOL. And, the same business Hillary and Bernie are in also. Hillary and Bernie are businesspeople? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-grandfather-and-the-sex-trade/750368.md?page=1)