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'This is dementia': Trump sets off fresh concerns by mixing up his father's birthplace
trump is NOT well.
'This is dementia': Trump sets off fresh concerns by mixing up his father's birthplace
— Rick de Ruiter (@rickderuiter.bsky.social) 2026-03-03T18:59:34.013Z
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-dementia-new-concern/
President Donald Trump set off another round of speculation about his mental health by mixing up his father's birthplace.
The 79-year-old president hosted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday at the White House, where he took questions about the U.S. attack on Iran and seemingly mixed up his U.S.-born father, who died in 1999, with his German-born grandfather, who died decades before Trump's birth.
"My father was born -- he knows all about my father -- my father was born there," Trump said. "These are places you automatically feel warmly about."
Frederick Trump was born in 1869 in Bavaria and first came to the U.S. in 1885 and was eventually stripped of his German citizenship for failing to complete mandatory military service, and he died in the 1918 flu pandemic after returning to the U.S. and buying up real estate in Queens.
His son Fred Trump, the president's father, was born in the Bronx in 1905 and took over the real estate business that had been started by his parents, and which eventually became the Trump Organization......
"Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born," posted veteran newspaper editor Mark Jacob. "It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft."
"This is called dementia," agreed Bluesky user Christian Harrup.
The 79-year-old president hosted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday at the White House, where he took questions about the U.S. attack on Iran and seemingly mixed up his U.S.-born father, who died in 1999, with his German-born grandfather, who died decades before Trump's birth.
"My father was born -- he knows all about my father -- my father was born there," Trump said. "These are places you automatically feel warmly about."
Frederick Trump was born in 1869 in Bavaria and first came to the U.S. in 1885 and was eventually stripped of his German citizenship for failing to complete mandatory military service, and he died in the 1918 flu pandemic after returning to the U.S. and buying up real estate in Queens.
His son Fred Trump, the president's father, was born in the Bronx in 1905 and took over the real estate business that had been started by his parents, and which eventually became the Trump Organization......
"Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born," posted veteran newspaper editor Mark Jacob. "It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft."
"This is called dementia," agreed Bluesky user Christian Harrup.
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