Thursday, April 28, 2011

Ruling the World.

Trump and I share a first name and much is made of names in this country and in our culture to define who we are among our neighbors. People are usually proud of their given names and their family names.
 
Take the name Donald for instance.  As most Donalds know and as Wickapedia tells us, the name, "... is an anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic or Irish personal name Domhnall, Dòmhnall, Dumhnuil and or Dónall. This contains the elements dumno meaning "world" and val meaning "rule" (viz. "ruler of the world").  A short form of Donald is Don; pet forms include Donnie and Donny, and in Scotland Dolly." 

It is not surprising that we Donalds are an arrogant lot considering the meaning of our name. Of course I never meet a Donald who was actually ruler of the world, but then I never meet "the Donald".
Donald is a very popular first name for men (#15 out of 1220) and also a popular

last name (#2477 out of 88799). (Taken from the 1990 
U S Census). But the popularity of the name has been going down hill for some time as the graph from http//:thinkbabynames.com, shows. 

Donald Trump's real name however is not Trump, but Drumpf which his grandfather Federick decided to change upon becoming a naturalized US Citizen and before succumbing to the flu epidemic of 1918. There is no record of a legal name change so Trump must be considerd a long time alias.

Father, Fred Christ Trump Jr. did well apart from having his eldest son commit suicide and left the remaining children 400 million to start out in life.
Barack Hussein Obama on the other hand embraced his name and brought himself up from a  middle class family to be President of the United States.  His family, (Irish and East African), like the German Drumpf akaTrump, and most of the rest of us were of foreign blood to start, but we made a place in this nation of ours.

How dare Drumpf challenge the President's right to be were he is?
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