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malaise

(269,019 posts)
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 07:02 PM Jan 2020

King Donald IV

Do DUers think the Con's Scottish mother fed him with stories about the three Scottish Kings named Donald.
His obsession with British royalty and his desire to be king is not normal.
Dems should ridicule him about this - it will further piss him off.

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King Donald IV (Original Post) malaise Jan 2020 OP
the republican senate is about to crown him.... spanone Jan 2020 #1
Well I like this title malaise Jan 2020 #3
Bwahahahahaaa spanone Jan 2020 #6
I'm rather leaning toward Totally Tunsie Jan 2020 #8
Hehehehehehehhe malaise Jan 2020 #15
Mind if I borrow that "Dotard the Dictator" line? Different Drummer Jan 2020 #10
All yours malaise Jan 2020 #11
He has royal blood, all right. Kid Berwyn Jan 2020 #2
Hehehehehe malaise Jan 2020 #4
The Downpresser Kid Berwyn Jan 2020 #5
More like Downpressor malaise Jan 2020 #7
You mean, *this* Royal Blood? Different Drummer Jan 2020 #12
All hail to the burger king dalton99a Jan 2020 #9
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Jan 2020 #13
Doncha know the portraits on the walls were quietly weeping Grammy23 Jan 2020 #18
He's too stupid to understand history XRubicon Jan 2020 #14
Consequences are coming malaise Jan 2020 #17
This quote is making the rounds so babylonsister Jan 2020 #16
Ma was prescient malaise Jan 2020 #19
Haha! babylonsister Jan 2020 #20
"Donald the Slobberer" smirkymonkey Jan 2020 #21
Love it malaise Jan 2020 #22
pretty sure HAB911 Jan 2020 #23
I don't know for a fact, but it's my honest conjecture that Fred went to Scotland for a bride Mc Mike Jan 2020 #24
I read that his mother's people were malaise Jan 2020 #25
+1. A two-bedroom rented cottage crammed with her and 10 siblings dalton99a Jan 2020 #26
He's as close to royalty as a malaise Jan 2020 #29
Well, mythos aside, why did the proud German (Swede) Fred go to a poor small remote highland Mc Mike Jan 2020 #28
He met her in New York where she was a maid malaise Jan 2020 #30
Fred's dad was a climber, Fred was a climber. But he married a maid, who was inbred up the wazoo. Mc Mike Jan 2020 #32
You owe me a keyboard malaise Jan 2020 #33
Fred C. Trump met Mary Anne MacLeod at a party in Queens, New York. dalton99a Jan 2020 #31
I read your post 26 and 31, dalton. Thanks for the info, nt. Mc Mike Jan 2020 #40
Nah. King Mob Boss the First blm Jan 2020 #27
They sure behave like Royalists malaise Jan 2020 #34
All that "rugged individualism" mantra was bait for the Stupiderati to blm Jan 2020 #35
I'm stealing Stupiderati malaise Jan 2020 #36
I imagine Trump gave the Queen the best laugh she's had in years when Vinca Jan 2020 #37
That was freaking hilarious malaise Jan 2020 #38
oh I've been calling him King Trump... Trueblue Texan Jan 2020 #39

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
18. Doncha know the portraits on the walls were quietly weeping
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 08:52 PM
Jan 2020

At that display? Hamberders on silver trays? How absurd. Those young men invited to that “feast” were probably snickering at that faux pas. Even the athletes knew better. But tRump thought he was doing it up proud.

babylonsister

(171,066 posts)
16. This quote is making the rounds so
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 08:48 PM
Jan 2020

maybe she didn't like him too much. He obviously wasn't encouraged to read or better himself.

A meme posted repeatedly on Facebook in recent days attributes a supposed quote about President Donald Trump to his late mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, but there’s no evidence she ever said it.

“Yes, he’s an idiot with zero common sense, and no social skills, but he IS my son,” the dubious statement reads. “I just hope he never goes into politics. He’d be a disaster.”

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
21. "Donald the Slobberer"
Sat Jan 25, 2020, 10:09 PM
Jan 2020

After ALFONSO THE SLOBBERER, who was the King of Galicia from 1188-1230. He apparently earned his nickname because he foamed at the mouth when enraged.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
24. I don't know for a fact, but it's my honest conjecture that Fred went to Scotland for a bride
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 12:04 PM
Jan 2020

based on looking at Burke's Peerage and seeing Mary MacLeod's name mentioned so many times.

He was proud of his German heritage, except around WWII through the '80's, then the family was Swedish, I guess. But he went to Scotland to import his bride. Like some rich Americans buy a castle over there. Went to a royal blood family with clout and lineage but less finances than him. Mary's dad was a MacLeod, his mom and dad were both MacLeods pre-marriage, 3/4s of their parents were born MacLeods.

I think the Rump family probably had some small amount of german royal blood, and that Fred was a bund er. He was busted rioting as a klansman pre-WWII because he was a bund er. So we have the worst of both worlds, Fred and Donnie are royalists and fascists, simultaneously. Little donnie is always trying to foist himself off onto the British Royals, claiming kinship. Always bragging about his great genes.

Donnie aims to be King Hitler MacLeod.

When he was a snot nose dirty faced grubby obnoxious little punk running around in Damian Omen style short pants, his parents told him he was a royal blooded prince and it was o.k. to assault the help, which they considered to be everyone else except people more powerful than them, who they were scared of. He internalized that and turned it on his parents, and they tossed him into a military 'themed' school to straighten him out.

He came out knowing he couldn't attack the parents or family, or any important people above them, but he was greatly damaged before he went in, and none of that got fixed, he's the same little sneering damian thorpe asshole, but with a veneer of wasp business organizational socialization laid over his sucky damaged persona.

malaise

(269,019 posts)
25. I read that his mother's people were
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 12:14 PM
Jan 2020

fisher folks.
https://www.insideedition.com/see-house-where-president-trumps-mother-grew-scotland-48027
<snip>
He doesn't talk about it much, but President Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, grew up poor in the fishing village of Tong in the Scottish Highlands.

Inside Edition visited the tiny village and the home where MacLeod lived together with her parents and nine siblings. The home remains in the family.

Local historical writer Ian Stephen told Inside Edition that times were tough when MacLeod was growing up.

“This was not an easy place to make a living,” he said. “You have displaced communities; this is the aftermath of the First World War, between the wars, uneasy political times, and depression. So here we have someone who had very little choice but to try and make a new life."


In 1930, when she was only 17, MacLeod decided to pack her bags and move from her humble home all the way to New York City, where she planned to work as a maid. She left home with only $50 in her pocket and no plans to return.

She arrived on Ellis Island by ship. Immigration records described her as having fair hair, a fair complexion, blue eyes and standing 5-foot-8.

dalton99a

(81,513 posts)
26. +1. A two-bedroom rented cottage crammed with her and 10 siblings
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 12:19 PM
Jan 2020
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mom-mary-anne-macleod-insecurity-deep-president-white-house-ivanka-758644
Donald Trump's Mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, is Key to Understanding the President's Deep Insecurity
Nina Burleigh , National Politics Correspondent
On 12/28/17 at 8:10 AM EST

Parishioners at the Stornoway High Church on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland still remember the dignified blonde who came back from America every summer. She walked with a formal, erect posture, provoking whispers about how she'd picked up her "airs and graces" in New York, where she'd married a rich man. But mostly they remember her speaking Gaelic as though she'd never left the island.

The woman, Mary Anne MacLeod, is the mother of Donald Trump, the aggressive rich kid turned real estate mogul turned President of the United States. And the contrast between her humble immigrants roots and the 1950s McMansion where she wound up is the key to understanding Trump's deep insecurity.

MacLeod spent the first 17 years of her life in Tong, a fishing village on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, closer to Iceland than to London. Though her son was raised in a mansion in Queens, she grew up among poor islanders in a two-bedroom rented cottage crammed with her and 10 siblings.

The MacLeods lived several miles from their church, on a tidal flat the locals called "the saltings." At certain times of day, the muck turned into quicksand as the tide rose. To get to church on Sunday—a daylong affair—the family would pick their way across the flats in muck boots—a perilous journey that only fishing families would even attempt because people frequently drowned. On every other day of the week, MacLeod's family worked hard, digging peat to burn, hauling fishing nets in the icy rain and farming meager crops they grew in the rocky soil.

As a girl, MacLeod saw few examples of how rich people lived. An English opium baron named Matheson had purchased the entire island in the mid-19th century and built himself a turreted gray stone Victorian castle on a plot of land overlooking Stornoway. The family's church was on Matheson Road, a street lined with small but handsome brick mansions belonging to the families of local merchants. To distinguish themselves from their impoverished—and often fish-smelling—counterparts, residents of these mansions forbade the poor to walk on their street. That ban would have included MacLeod and her family, local residents say.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
28. Well, mythos aside, why did the proud German (Swede) Fred go to a poor small remote highland
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 12:32 PM
Jan 2020

Scottish fishing village for a wife? I know his dad went back to germany to buy his way into society there with the bordello money, and couldn't get back in, so brought back a german spouse.

What kind of business did Friedrich have in the poverty stricken highland fishing village? How come 3/4 of Mary's great grandparents and both her dad's parents were MacLeods?

They were stacking up royal blood, and Friedrich was in the market.

malaise

(269,019 posts)
30. He met her in New York where she was a maid
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 12:35 PM
Jan 2020

and he was no proud German. His grandfather was banished from Germany - the original draft dodger in the family. He ran a brothel.
Funny the Con pretended to be Swedish for quite some time - he was really ashamed of his background.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
32. Fred's dad was a climber, Fred was a climber. But he married a maid, who was inbred up the wazoo.
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 12:40 PM
Jan 2020

blm

(113,063 posts)
35. All that "rugged individualism" mantra was bait for the Stupiderati to
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 01:22 PM
Jan 2020

End up supporting the monarchists.

Vinca

(50,273 posts)
37. I imagine Trump gave the Queen the best laugh she's had in years when
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 01:25 PM
Jan 2020

he appeared in that ill-fitting penguin suit next to her.

malaise

(269,019 posts)
38. That was freaking hilarious
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 01:27 PM
Jan 2020

but the fact that his children crashed the state banquet must have been way more hilarious to those Victorian sensibilities

Trueblue Texan

(2,430 posts)
39. oh I've been calling him King Trump...
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 10:36 PM
Jan 2020

I think the Republicans should get used to that designation, see how they really like it. I think they need to go ahead and start bowing down and kissing his feet literally instead of the groveling figurative way they've been doing it since Jan 20, 2017.

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