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All accounts seem to agree that Trump was an aggressive and violent child. Trump himself has written "I was a very assertive, aggressive kid" and has claimed he was almost expelled from school for punching his second-grade teacher in the face.<ref>{{Quotation|Donald Trump, the new president-elect of the United States, once said he punched a teacher in the face when he was in the second grade. So did he? Here's what he wrote in his 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal": “Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid. In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye. I punched my music teacher because I didn't think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled. I'm not proud of that, but it's clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a forceful way. The difference now is that I like to use my brain instead of my fists.” (''Washington Post'', November 13, 2016)}}</ref> Trump's father backed up his assessment, telling reporters that his son "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small."<ref>{{Quotation| “He was a pretty rough fellow when he was small,” recalled his father, who packed off his obstreperous teen-age son to the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson for his high school education. According to some of his peers in the industry, Donald Trump has not really changed much from those boyhood days. (''New York Times'', August 7, 1983)}}</ref> Trump's childhood neighbor has recounted an incident in which a young Trump was caught hurling rocks over the fence at a smaller child left unsupervised in a playpen.<ref>{{Quotation|Dennis Burnham was four years younger and lived around the corner from Donald. He inherited his own impression of his neighbor from his mother, who warned that he should "stay away from the Trumps." "Donald was known to be a bully, I was a little kid, and my parents didn't want me beaten up," said Burnham, 65, a business consultant in Texas. Once when she left Dennis in a playpen in a back yard adjoining the Trumps' property, Martha Burnham returned to find Donald throwing rocks at her son. "She saw Donald standing at the fence," Dennis Burnham said, "using the playpen for target practice." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)}}</ref> Another childhood neighbor has described Trump as a "loudmouth bully" and recounted watching Trump and of his friends beat up another boy. <ref>{{Quotation|In his neighborhood, Donald and his friends were known to ride their bikes and "shout and curse very loudly," said Steve Nachtigall, who lived nearby. Nachtigall said he once saw them jump off their bikes and beat up another boy. "It's kind of like a little video snippet that remains in my brain because I think it was so unusual and terrifying at that age," recalled Nachtigall, 66, a doctor in New Jersey. "He was a loudmouth bully." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)}}</ref> In boarding school, Trump attempted to push a fellow student out of a second-floor window, but was restrained by other students.<ref>{{Quotation|At the military academy where he attended high school, Donny grew taller, more muscular and tougher. Struck with a broomstick during a fight, he tried to push a fellow cadet out a second-floor window, only to be thwarted when two other students intervened. (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)}}</ref> During the [[2016 US Presidential Election]], Trump claimed "when I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different."<ref>{{Quotation|"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same," the 70-year-old presumptive Republican nominee once told a biographer. "The temperament is not that different." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)}}</ref> | All accounts seem to agree that Trump was an aggressive and violent child. Trump himself has written "I was a very assertive, aggressive kid" and has claimed he was almost expelled from school for punching his second-grade teacher in the face.<ref>{{Quotation|Donald Trump, the new president-elect of the United States, once said he punched a teacher in the face when he was in the second grade. So did he? Here's what he wrote in his 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal": “Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid. In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye. I punched my music teacher because I didn't think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled. I'm not proud of that, but it's clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a forceful way. The difference now is that I like to use my brain instead of my fists.” (''Washington Post'', November 13, 2016)}}</ref> Trump's father backed up his assessment, telling reporters that his son "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small."<ref>{{Quotation| “He was a pretty rough fellow when he was small,” recalled his father, who packed off his obstreperous teen-age son to the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson for his high school education. According to some of his peers in the industry, Donald Trump has not really changed much from those boyhood days. (''New York Times'', August 7, 1983)}}</ref> Trump's childhood neighbor has recounted an incident in which a young Trump was caught hurling rocks over the fence at a smaller child left unsupervised in a playpen.<ref>{{Quotation|Dennis Burnham was four years younger and lived around the corner from Donald. He inherited his own impression of his neighbor from his mother, who warned that he should "stay away from the Trumps." "Donald was known to be a bully, I was a little kid, and my parents didn't want me beaten up," said Burnham, 65, a business consultant in Texas. Once when she left Dennis in a playpen in a back yard adjoining the Trumps' property, Martha Burnham returned to find Donald throwing rocks at her son. "She saw Donald standing at the fence," Dennis Burnham said, "using the playpen for target practice." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)}}</ref> Another childhood neighbor has described Trump as a "loudmouth bully" and recounted watching Trump and of his friends beat up another boy. <ref>{{Quotation|In his neighborhood, Donald and his friends were known to ride their bikes and "shout and curse very loudly," said Steve Nachtigall, who lived nearby. Nachtigall said he once saw them jump off their bikes and beat up another boy. "It's kind of like a little video snippet that remains in my brain because I think it was so unusual and terrifying at that age," recalled Nachtigall, 66, a doctor in New Jersey. "He was a loudmouth bully." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)}}</ref> In boarding school, Trump attempted to push a fellow student out of a second-floor window, but was restrained by other students.<ref>{{Quotation|At the military academy where he attended high school, Donny grew taller, more muscular and tougher. Struck with a broomstick during a fight, he tried to push a fellow cadet out a second-floor window, only to be thwarted when two other students intervened. (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)}}</ref> During the [[2016 US Presidential Election]], Trump claimed "when I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different."<ref>{{Quotation|"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same," the 70-year-old presumptive Republican nominee once told a biographer. "The temperament is not that different." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)}}</ref> | ||
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{{Quotation|On Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathizers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica. [...] The predication for the Klan to march, according to a flier passed around Jamaica beforehand, was that "Native-born Protestant Americans" were being "assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City." "Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon," it continued, "when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language." (Washington Post, February 28, 2016)}} | {{Quotation|On Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathizers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica. [...] The predication for the Klan to march, according to a flier passed around Jamaica beforehand, was that "Native-born Protestant Americans" were being "assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City." "Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon," it continued, "when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language." (Washington Post, February 28, 2016)}} | ||
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− | '''A.''' And by the way, my father was not involved, was never charged and I never even heard this before. What? It comes out on a website and you are going to write it on The New York Times? It shouldn't be written because it never happened, No. 1. And No. 2, there was nobody charged. (New York Times, September 22, 2015)}} | + | '''A.''' And by the way, my father was not involved, was never charged and I never even heard this before. What? It comes out on a website and you are going to write it on The New York Times? It shouldn't be written because it never happened, No. 1. And No. 2, there was nobody charged. (''New York Times'', September 22, 2015)}} |
{{Quotation|From the beginning, Freddy stood out as different from his authoritarian, workaholic father. [...] When Ms. Schifano moved to Jamaica Estates, Queens, the wealthy enclave where the Trumps lived, Freddy confided to her that his parents had panicked because, as Italians, the Schifanos were “the first ethnic family to move into the neighborhood.” (New York Times, January 3, 2016)}} | {{Quotation|From the beginning, Freddy stood out as different from his authoritarian, workaholic father. [...] When Ms. Schifano moved to Jamaica Estates, Queens, the wealthy enclave where the Trumps lived, Freddy confided to her that his parents had panicked because, as Italians, the Schifanos were “the first ethnic family to move into the neighborhood.” (New York Times, January 3, 2016)}} | ||
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+ | {{Quotation|The Trump family owns 25,000 apartment units primarily in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island - the empire that Fred C. Trump, Donald Trump's father, built. [...] The family is of Swedish descent. (New York Times, April 8, 1984)}} | ||
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+ | {{Quotation|Even today, Donald Trump seems to bathe in his father's approval. A framed photo of Fred Trump faces him on his cluttered desk. Asked what his father, who died in 1999, would have thought about his run for president, Mr. Trump, 70, said, “He would have absolutely allowed me to have done it.” (New York Times, August 13, 2016)}} | ||
{{Quotation|The most recent example of code enforcement success, according to Kelly, was the September arrest of a New York owner of a Seat Pleasant apartment complex that did not meet housing codes. Arrested was Fred C. Trump, the owner of Gregory Estates at 6918 George Palmer Hwy. Trump was ordered by a Prince Goerge's County judge to correct the code violations in all of the 504 units before his sentencing March 22. (Washington Post, March 10, 1977)}} | {{Quotation|The most recent example of code enforcement success, according to Kelly, was the September arrest of a New York owner of a Seat Pleasant apartment complex that did not meet housing codes. Arrested was Fred C. Trump, the owner of Gregory Estates at 6918 George Palmer Hwy. Trump was ordered by a Prince Goerge's County judge to correct the code violations in all of the 504 units before his sentencing March 22. (Washington Post, March 10, 1977)}} | ||
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{{Quotation|Fred C. Trump, one of the last of New York City's major postwar builders, died yesterday at a hospital in Queens. He was 93 and lived in Jamaica Estates, Queens. Although Mr. Trump was stricken with Alzheimer's disease six years ago, he still retained his title of chairman of the board of Trump Management, a title he held since the company was formed in the mid-1960's. [...] His estate has been estimated by the family at $250 million to $300 million. [...] From World War II until the 1980's, Mr. Trump would tell friends and acquaintances that he was of Swedish origin, although both his parents were born in Germany. [...] (New York Times, June 26, 1999)}} | {{Quotation|Fred C. Trump, one of the last of New York City's major postwar builders, died yesterday at a hospital in Queens. He was 93 and lived in Jamaica Estates, Queens. Although Mr. Trump was stricken with Alzheimer's disease six years ago, he still retained his title of chairman of the board of Trump Management, a title he held since the company was formed in the mid-1960's. [...] His estate has been estimated by the family at $250 million to $300 million. [...] From World War II until the 1980's, Mr. Trump would tell friends and acquaintances that he was of Swedish origin, although both his parents were born in Germany. [...] (New York Times, June 26, 1999)}} | ||
− | {{Quotation|In the last decade of his life, the early stages of Alzheimer's disease slowed Fred Trump, according to his friends and relatives, and he died at the age of 93 with difficulty recognizing people. Mr. Trump said he wasn't scared that the disease might be the last thing he inherits from his father. | + | {{Quotation|In the last decade of his life, the early stages of Alzheimer's disease slowed Fred Trump, according to his friends and relatives, and he died at the age of 93 with difficulty recognizing people. Mr. Trump said he wasn't scared that the disease might be the last thing he inherits from his father. "Do I accept it? Yeah," he said. "Look, I'm very much a fatalist." (New York Times, August 13, 2016)}} |
===Mary MacLeod=== | ===Mary MacLeod=== |
Revision as of 23:44, 5 April 2017
Donald Trump is President of the United States. Trump holds the unfortunate distinction of winning the Presidency through the Electoral College despite a thumping loss of 2.9 million votes (a 2.1% margin).[1] So far, Trump has been consistently setting records as the most unpopular President in the history of polling.[2] But hey - if you like him... congrats. He's your president, and ours too.
Contents
Childhood and Family
Trump Showed Early Propensity for Aggression and Violence
All accounts seem to agree that Trump was an aggressive and violent child. Trump himself has written "I was a very assertive, aggressive kid" and has claimed he was almost expelled from school for punching his second-grade teacher in the face.[3] Trump's father backed up his assessment, telling reporters that his son "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small."[4] Trump's childhood neighbor has recounted an incident in which a young Trump was caught hurling rocks over the fence at a smaller child left unsupervised in a playpen.[5] Another childhood neighbor has described Trump as a "loudmouth bully" and recounted watching Trump and of his friends beat up another boy. [6] In boarding school, Trump attempted to push a fellow student out of a second-floor window, but was restrained by other students.[7] During the 2016 US Presidential Election, Trump claimed "when I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same. The temperament is not that different."[8]
Early Childhood Steeped in Bigotry
“ On Memorial Day 1927, brawls erupted in New York led by sympathizers of the Italian fascist movement and the Ku Klux Klan. In the fascist brawl, which took place in the Bronx, two Italian men were killed by anti-fascists. In Queens, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Rd. in Jamaica. [...] The predication for the Klan to march, according to a flier passed around Jamaica beforehand, was that "Native-born Protestant Americans" were being "assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City." "Liberty and Democracy have been trampled upon," it continued, "when native-born Protestant Americans dare to organize to protect one flag, the American flag; one school, the public school; and one language, the English language." (Washington Post, February 28, 2016) ”
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“More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history. The Democrat outpaced President-elect Donald Trump by almost 2.9 million votes, with 65,844,954 (48.2%) to his 62,979,879 (46.1%), according to revised and certified final election results from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (CNN, December 22, 2016”
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“Trump’s current rating is a low not just for Trump’s presidency so far, but also for this point in any recent presidency. We’re on day 69 of the Trump administration, and his net approval rating — -11.1 — is by far the lowest of any of the past 13 presidents at this point. (Five Thirty Eight, March 29, 2017)”- ↑
“Donald Trump, the new president-elect of the United States, once said he punched a teacher in the face when he was in the second grade. So did he? Here's what he wrote in his 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal": “Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid. In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye. I punched my music teacher because I didn't think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled. I'm not proud of that, but it's clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a forceful way. The difference now is that I like to use my brain instead of my fists.” (Washington Post, November 13, 2016)”- ↑
““He was a pretty rough fellow when he was small,” recalled his father, who packed off his obstreperous teen-age son to the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson for his high school education. According to some of his peers in the industry, Donald Trump has not really changed much from those boyhood days. (New York Times, August 7, 1983)”- ↑
“Dennis Burnham was four years younger and lived around the corner from Donald. He inherited his own impression of his neighbor from his mother, who warned that he should "stay away from the Trumps." "Donald was known to be a bully, I was a little kid, and my parents didn't want me beaten up," said Burnham, 65, a business consultant in Texas. Once when she left Dennis in a playpen in a back yard adjoining the Trumps' property, Martha Burnham returned to find Donald throwing rocks at her son. "She saw Donald standing at the fence," Dennis Burnham said, "using the playpen for target practice." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)”- ↑
“In his neighborhood, Donald and his friends were known to ride their bikes and "shout and curse very loudly," said Steve Nachtigall, who lived nearby. Nachtigall said he once saw them jump off their bikes and beat up another boy. "It's kind of like a little video snippet that remains in my brain because I think it was so unusual and terrifying at that age," recalled Nachtigall, 66, a doctor in New Jersey. "He was a loudmouth bully." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)”- ↑
“At the military academy where he attended high school, Donny grew taller, more muscular and tougher. Struck with a broomstick during a fight, he tried to push a fellow cadet out a second-floor window, only to be thwarted when two other students intervened. (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)”- ↑
“"When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I'm basically the same," the 70-year-old presumptive Republican nominee once told a biographer. "The temperament is not that different." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)” - ↑