TRUMP: I don't lie - Except in The Art of the Deal - From Sweden or Germany?

"His story is classic Horatio Alger. Fred Trump was born in New Jersey in 1905. His father, who came here from Sweden as a child, owned a moderately successful restaurant, but he was also a hard liver and a hard drinker, and he died when my father was eleven years old." (pg. 41 of .pdf of book)

Donald's parents

WRONG!!

Fred Trump’s father Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump; March 14, 1869 – May 30, 1918) was a German-American businessman. Born in Kallstadt, in the Kingdom of Bavaria(now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), he immigrated to the United States at the age of 16 and started working as a barber. Several years later in 1891, he moved to the Northwest. He made his fortune operating boom-town restaurants and boarding houses in Seattle and a mining town to the north, and in the Klondike Gold Rush.

Elizabeth Christ and Frederick Trump, 1918

Frederick and Family

DRAFT DODGER just as Donald is. He later returned to Germany and married. When authorities found that he had emigrated when young to avoid fulfilling his military service, he lost his Bavarian citizenship; he and his family returned to the United States. In other words a "draft dodger.

NOTE FROM ANOTHER SOURCE: Soon after the family arrived in Germany, Bavarian authorities determined that Trump had emigrated from Germany to avoid his military-service obligations, and he was classified as a draft dodger. On December 24, 1904 the Department of Interior announced an investigation to expel Trump from Germany. Officially, they found that he had violated the Resolution of the Royal Ministry of the Interior number 9916, an 1886 law that punished emigration to North America to avoid military service with the loss of German citizenship. For several months, Trump petitioned the government to allow him to stay but he was unsuccessful.

He worked as a barber and hotel manager, and began to acquire real estate in Queens. He was the father of Fred and John G. Trump, and grandfather of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States.

NOTE:

Since 1816 and until 1945, the Palatinate was part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1871, Bavaria became a part of the newly formed German Empire. During periods of war and anti-German discrimination in the United States, Trump's son Fred later denied his German heritage, claiming his father had been a Swede from Karlstad. This version was recounted by Fred's son Donald in his 1987 autobiography.