President
Donald Trump will not be made an honorary citizen of the small German
town from which his grandparents emigrated from.
President Donald Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump will not be made an honorary citizen of
the small German town from which his grandparents emigrated, the town’s
mayor Thomas Jaworek said on Friday after a council meeting.
Councillors in Kallstadt, the quaint village in Germany’s
wine-making Rheinland region that was home to Trump’s grandparents, had
been presented with a proposal to honour the newly inaugurated
president.
The town’s councillors did not address the Trump proposal directly
at the meeting, but instead reaffirmed their position that the town does
not hand out honorary citizenships.
Germany’s own Republicans, a fringe party sharing the right-wing
conservative values of their U.S. namesakes, lodged the request for
honorary citizenship and even wanted to have a street or square named
after him.
“There is no faction that supports the proposal,’’ Jaworek said ahead of the meeting.
The municipality of Freinsheim, which includes Kallstadt, also
brushed aside a similar proposal, with a town spokesman saying Trump did
not fulfill the requirements.
Report says Trump’s grandfather Friedrich, who later anglicised his
name to Frederick, set out from Germany for New York in the late 1800s
and later headed west as part of the Gold Rush.
He sent some of his earnings back to his relatives in Germany, while a distant few of them could still be found in Kallstadt.
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