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Allegation that Frederick Trump owned and ran a brothel

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The allegation that Frederick Trump owned and ran a brothel comes from an error made by Gwenda Blair in her book "The Trumps". I think she may have published a retraction since then. The more authoritative sources indicate that Trump did not procure and offer the services of prostitutes. Rather he rented hotel rooms to customers which may have included women working as prostitutes. As a result of the animosity some people hold against Donald Trump they have been repeating the error. RichardBond (talk) 01:10, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Family name

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There seems to be a major misunderstanding in the article regarding the name Trump. The Trump family certainly didn't change their name; it evolved naturally over time. Until around 1850, there was no binding spelling system in Germany, so names were spelled in the opinion of the writer, including dialectal accents. In the Palatinate dialects, the hard "T" often becomes a softer "D," which also explains "Trump" to "Drump(f)". Matweber80 (talk) 10:37, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]