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Make Donald DRUMPF again!!!

ponderingturtle said:
And his name is the bulk of his wealth. He values it in the 3-5 billion dollar range. Drumpf would never work as a brand to put on buildings, airlines, vodka, meat and so on.
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Sure it would, names are nothing. Examples - Xerox, Google, Twitter, International Business Machines, Engelbert Humperdinck. Justin Bieber. Arnold Schwarze-whatshisname. Names are nothing. People get used to them and they take on a life of their own.

When did Donald Trump change his name? He didn't, right?
 
I'm willing to bet that those criticizing the "Drumpf" bit didn’t bother to watch the segment.

So here’s the context for those who like to complain about things they haven’t actually watched:

Oliver wasn’t making fun of Trump’s family name or the fact that it was changed.

He was commenting on the fact that the name “Trump” has become a brand unto itself often associated with quality and success, and that those qualities might be attributed to the man himself by mere association. He therefore suggested referring to Trump by his original family name of “Drumpf” as a means of separating the man from the brand.
 
johnny karate said:
the name “Trump” has become a brand unto itself often associated with quality and success
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I have honestly never heard this. I associate his "brand" with tacky ostentatiousness rammed through loopholes in the tax code. Of course, someone's gotta be buying all this Trump crap. Maybe there's a whole cadre of real estate D-bags keeping it all in the air, I dunno. Or maybe not and the whole thing's a paper sham like the last, what, four times he's done that and gone bankrupt?
 
You'd be surprised at how many people associate Trump with quality and expensive stuff. I mean he gilds everything in gold! That surely means it's great!
 
johnny karate said:
I'm willing to bet that those criticizing the "Drumpf" bit didn’t bother to watch the segment...
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I watched the segment and really enjoyed it, I thought it was not only hilarious but very true. I do think that John Oliver was also suggesting that just the sound of the name Trump confers something grand, something of quality. In a way the name Drumpf does not. Different sound, different reaction.

Hilarious piece.
 
Travis said:
You'd be surprised at how many people associate Trump with quality and expensive stuff. I mean he gilds everything in gold! That surely means it's great!
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Wasn't he on the first episode of that show Lifestyles of the Rich and Tasteless?
 
fuelair said:
Tonight on John Oliver's HBO Show he announced a new campaign based on the Trump family's real family name -which was changed for some odd reason a few generations back. The campaign is simple it's goal is to let people know what it is and push Trump to use the real family name or explain why he won't.

The real family name was Drumpf, the campaign is through the show (look up John Oliver HBO and you should get to the info.

I'll be back with an update but did not want to hold back on this great idea!!!!:):D:):D:thumbsup:
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Why? Who cares about his old family name? What does it change?

I admit the Oliver segment was funny, but irrelevant. It might actually backfire and help Trump, in fact.
 
mgidm86 said:
Sure it would, names are nothing. Examples - Xerox, Google, Twitter, International Business Machines, Engelbert Humperdinck. Justin Bieber. Arnold Schwarze-whatshisname. Names are nothing. People get used to them and they take on a life of their own.

When did Donald Trump change his name? He didn't, right?
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And no one would pay more to get a Drumpf steak or live in Drumpf towers.

Having a cool name certainly makes it easier to brand with it, and that is the majority of his worth. He doesn't build buildings, he sells them use of his name.
 
It is also a sendup of Trump criticizing Jon Stewart for changing his name from Jon Leibowitz. (Stuart -- spelled differently -- is his middle name.)

Point being, Trump is so completely hypocritical and fundamentally phony. The man of whom his supporters say, one of the best things about him is, "He tells it like it is."

It's actually sad. ;)
 
Travis said:
John Oliver is really carrying the torch left over with the retirement of Jon Stewart. Much more so than the relaunched Daily Show.
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He did really well when Stewart went on Hiatus to film his movie. Oliver really should have gotten that spot, but he'd already moved on before Stewart announced his planned retirement.
 
newyorkguy said:
I do think that John Oliver was also suggesting that just the sound of the name Trump confers something grand, something of quality. In a way the name Drumpf does not. Different sound, different reaction.
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Yes, he used the term onomatopoeia.
 
Apparently the name change happened in the 17th century. Since then they were called Trump which is pronounced something like Troomp in his ancestors village of Kallstadt, which is also the home of the Heinz Ketchup guy. There's a fun movie about this called "Kings of Kallstadt" which includes everybody in the village being invited to meet Teh Donald in his tower, which a busload of them takes up. If anybody is interested, I've seen it recently for free on public TV stream (in German of course) and could look up where.
 
Doghouse Reilly said:
The thing is, Drumpf and Trump don't even sound that different in German.
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Thing is that this "story" is totally made up.

You can watch them spot "Trump" graves back in Kallstadt around six minutes into the (2014) film (I watched it again just now, it's totally hilarious), which wouldn't be possible if Frederick changed his name after emigrating to the US.
 
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