• calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    2 months ago

    If it’s just the last name, you can go back further.

    Fred Trump was so famously racist, Woody Guthrie had already written a song about him in 1954.

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      2 months ago

      didn’t fred trump get busted at a klan rally in the 20s? i think the trump camp got asked about this once, and they were seriously like “that was a different racist fred trump”

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        2 months ago

        Fuck me, I did not know that!

        In 1927, Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan demonstration, but there is no conclusive evidence that he supported the organization.

        Oh sure, just at a Klan rally as a social call.

        And yep, according to the details on Twitter, Donald confirmed it and then said “nah, must have been another Fred Trump who lived at that same address.”