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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 86 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

One of the times where I was most proud to be Canadian was when Justin Trudeau gifted Trump a frames photo of his grandpa's Canadian brothel

[–] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 31 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, snap! How did I miss that?!? That must've been hilarious AF!

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

melania must be bummed to see katie perry dating him.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Has Melania been to space tho

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 64 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Draft dodging, a family tradition

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

Brothel too, but that got more specialized

[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yep no surprise there

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 3 weeks ago

and owning a seedy business, like tradition. DJT opens a "pageant" to traffick women.

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The restaurant burned down in the Whitehorse fire of 1905.[19] Blair wrote that "once again, in a situation that created many losers, [Frederick Trump] managed to emerge a winner."

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The apple didn't fall far from the tree.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

dont you mean navel orange or GRAPEFRUIT.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Brothel owner... Yes. Accurate for the family line. A bunch of perverts.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Don't shame sex work. Lots of brothel owners are bad people but it's not automatic.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Ran a brothel, eh? Guess the trumps have never strayed too far from the idea of paying for sex.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump worked as a barber and manager of a restaurant-hotel and was beginning to acquire real estate in Queens when he died in the 1918 flu pandemic.

Fucking irony

[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

restaurant-hotel

Well, a sort of hotel.

Located at 208 Washington Street, the Dairy Restaurant was in the middle of Seattle's Pioneer Square; Washington Street was nicknamed "the Line" and included an assortment of saloons, casinos, and brothels. Biographer Gwenda Blair called it "a hotbed of sex, booze, and money, was the indisputable center of the action in Seattle."[6]: 41  The restaurant served food and liquor and was advertised to include "Rooms for Ladies", a common euphemism for prostitution.[6]: 

Despite the placer's claim providing Trump no right to build any structure on the land, he quickly bought lumber to build a new boarding house and operate it similarly to the Dairy Restaurant.

In May 1898, Trump and Levin moved to Bennett, British Columbia,[17] a town known for prospectors building boats in order to travel to Dawson. In Bennett, Trump and Levin opened the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel, which offered fine dining, lodging and sex in a sea of tents.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

A family of cowards and simpletons.

Of course conservatives are drawn to them.

[–] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is that his real name? I thought trump changed his family name from Drumph

[–] Cavemanfreak@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There seems to be some speculation about when the change was made. Some time between late 1600's and early 1900's seems to be the consensus. Both DJT and his father has always been named Trump though.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

He got that Eric look

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn't do a service in an imperialist empire army either