Jan 24, 2018

Trump sequentials - 1





I've been reading a Trump biography ("Trump Revealed"), got inspired to maybe do a few strips based on his storied and checkered past.

On a side note-- These official stories they give you always leave so many unanswered questions. For instance, they talk in this book about his German grandfather coming to the US in the late 1800s (IIRC), having trained as a barber. That was it, he had barber skills, and otherwise, so far as they tell us, was a young man with little money to his name. In fact, he was even described as being of slight build, unsuited for the family grape/ winery business, or something like that. So not extremely charismatic one imagines.

Yet somehow, in his initial foray to the West, he ends up owning a newly built hotel out in Oregon or someplace...! And then some kind of sketchy brothel/ saloon further north in Canada (again, IIRC, that was the gist of it anyway.) But how? Why would he be lent money to build a hotel? Or let in on it in any way? Which is all glossed over anyway, they don't mention how that transpired.

Then, he returns to Germany, now with a fortune. Takes a German wife. But, being considered a draft dodger, despite his fortune and the good word of his family and friends, the bureaucrats kick him out of Germany. He returns to the US, goes to Wall Street and (despite his wealth... did he blow it all?), works as a BARBER again! Cutting plutocrats' hair, on Wall Street. Then, after some short time, he gets hot tips(?) or something, and is back in business, investing in real estate or whatever else, getting rich.

That was Friedrich Drumpf (or Tromph or Dromp or 5 or 6 other possible variations of the family name.)

2 comments:

  1. Great page Tim!!

    Love the writing.

    Still gotta figure out another story we can work on!

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  2. Thanks PBD(?)! I'm swamped with projects I'd like to develop.. and extremely unproductive anyway, as commenter CM has many times reminded us... but I'm open to any ideas you want to put forth, one never knows..

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