How Trump got Drumpf-ed: the truth behind John Oliver’s epic takedown of the Donald
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As Super Tuesday results were reported, it was unsurprising that Donald Trump was the most searched candidate on Google on Wednesday morning. But the runner-up was neither Marco Rubio nor Ted Cruz.
The second-most Google-searched candidate was “Donald Drumpf”.
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On his show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the comedian described Trump as the “cornerstone of his brand” but Drumpf as “much less magical”, though magical in an ironic sense.
While it is certain his family came from a line of Drumpfs, it is unclear when the name change took place.
Biographer Gwenda Blair initially traced the switch to the 1600s, but later contradicted that conclusion during an interview last year with German news outlet Deutsche Welle, saying “Friedrich Drumpf” emigrated to the US in 1885.
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Donald Trump himself seemed to have accepted Drumpf as his ancestral name, as noted in his 2004 book Trump: Think like a Billionaire. He reiterated Blair’s research that a German lawyer named Hanns Drumpf settled in Kallstadt in 1608 and one of his wine-making ancestors changed the family name to Trump at the end of the 1600s.