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Little Donny: “Father, I cannot tell a truth. I did not chop down the cherry tree.”

Old Fred: “Well done, son. How much did you get for the wood?”

[Yes, I know that the six-year-old George Washington is sometimes said to have damaged the cherry tree with his hatchet, and by other  sources to have actually chopped it down. I also know that the whole story is usually assumed to be a myth, perpetuated because it was included in a biography by Mason Locke Weems and subsequently in McGuffey’s Readers by William Holmes McGuffey, as well as an engraving by John C. Macrae. But the dialogue above is a parable, not historical fact.

What I didn’t know is that Trump’s father was actually named Frederick Christ Trump. I have no further comment to make about that, but Woody Guthrie might have… He wrote at least two songs about Fred Trump, and was definitely not a fan.]

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