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Originally Posted by Lucas McCain
Cool. Trump's family didn't own slaves because his ancestors came to America after slavery was abolished so it was illegal to do so by the time they arrived here.
I hope his racist trailer park hillbilly followers never find out about this complete outrage because this breaking news would break their hearts. ![Smile](https://cdn-w.eccie.net/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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Don't worry, I doubt they can read that far...
While other presidents have deep ancestral roots in America,
Trump's ancestors did not immigrate to the United States until after slavery was abolished in 1865.
In fact, none of his grandparents were born in the United States.
Trump's paternal grandparents were born in Kallstadt, a small town in southwestern Germany, and emigrated to the US in the early 1900s. His mother Mary, meanwhile,
was born in Scotland.
Despite this, Trump has a
long history of defending symbols of the Confederacy — as President, he resisted the renaming of US military bases that had been named after Confederate generals, despite the Department of Defense being open to making changes.
He also once infamously declared that there were "very fine people on both sides" of a clash involving white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia over the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.