Trump's Parents' Naches Short-Lived

 Nadene Goldfoot                                             

The January 20, 2017 inauguration From left to right: Donald, Melania, Donald Jr., Barron, Ivanka, Eric, and Tiffany Trump.  By January 6, 2021, it was all forgotten.  He went out with a bang, all right and took all the naches with him.  Trump was born June 14, 1946, so he became president at age 70 turning 71 in June.  

With us, parents look forward to receiving that special joy; that pleasure plus pride that only a child can give to his parents, called naches.    "I have such naches:  My son was voted president of the United States.!"  Donald Trump's father must have felt that, finally, with Donald.                                               

New York Military Academy is one of the most prestigious military preparatory schools in the United States. Located directly on the Hudson River in Cornwall-on-Hudson, notable alumni include current president Donald J. Trump, Francis Ford Coppola, and Judge Albert Tate.

           Trump at the New York Military Academy entering in 1959 when 13.  This pictures was in 1964 at age 18 when he must have graduated.  His first naches that he gave his parents must have been this graduation.  

At age 13, Donald Trump was enrolled at the New York Military Academy, a private boarding school,  As a teacher, I wondered about this.  Usually, this happens to boys who have been overly unruly in their own homes.  According to the Washington Post, [Donald Trump] was a 13-year-old with a history of trouble at school, and his father, Fred Trump, a prominent New York real estate developer, sent him to the academy to be straightened out.  If you can get access to the Post story, I recommend reading it for more on Trump’s early life at the Military Academy. Trump himself attacked the Post story and denies the recollections of his former classmates. Ironically, while Donald Trump demanded in 2012 Obama release his college transcripts, Trump refused to allow anyone access to his military academy records.  

The word "naches" is pronounced Noch-ess,  to rhyme with "Loch Ness."   ---with the kh sound a Scot would use in pronouncing "loch." It comes from the Hebrew word, nachat: "contentment." 

                                                     

            Mary Ann MacLeod, born May 10, 1912,  died August 7, 2000 at New Hyde Park, Nassau, New York was Donald's mother.

Fred Trump was Donald's father.  Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump (1905–1999), born in New York, was a successful real estate developer in New York City. Using their inheritance, Fred Trump and his mother Elizabeth Christ Trump-Donald Trump's grandmother, founded E. Trump & Son in 1927. Donald's mother was Mary Ann MacLeod.   Born as Mary Anne MacLeod (1912–2000) in Tong, a small village near Stornoway, in the Western Isles of Scotland, she was a daughter of fisherman Malcolm MacLeod and Mary MacLeod (née Smith). At age 17, she immigrated to the United States with $50 (equivalent to $852 in 2022), and moved in with a sister before starting work as a maid in New York. Mary and Fred Trump met in New York and married in 1936, settling together in Queens. Mary became a U.S. citizen in 1942. While visiting Scotland in June 2008, Donald Trump said in part, "I think I do feel Scottish."

                                                                                   

                                                          Elizabeth Christ

                                                           Friederick Trump

Trump Grandparents were from Bavaria which is part of Germany today:  Grandparents get naches, too, from their grandchildren.  They both died before Trump became President, though.  They would have been proud of Trump's father, Fred, a man who made his mark in life through real estate.  

Frederick Trump:  In 1885, Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump, emigrated from Kallstadt, Palatinate (then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria), to the United States at age 16. He anglicized his name to Frederick in 1892 when he became a U.S. citizen. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he amassed a fortune by opening a restaurant and hotel in Bennett and later Whitehorse, serving gold seekers on their way to the region; one biographer wrote that the business included a brothel, a portrayal Donald Trump has said was "totally false". On attempting to return, Frederick was exiled by Germany in 1905 for his lack of mandatory military service and not giving authorities notice before his 1885 departure; an appeal was denied.  He died in the first wave of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. After his death, his fortune was passed on to his wife and son.

Elizabeth Christ Trump:  Donald Trump's grandmother, Elizabeth Christ Trump, was born in 1880 and died on June 6, 1966. She married Frederick Trump in 1902 and moved to the United States with him. Like her husband, she was a native of Kallstadt, born as the daughter of Philipp and Marie Christ. Philipp Christ was descended from Johannes Christ (1626–1688/9) of Flörsheim, Hesse. Elizabeth Christ Trump was a descendant of organ builder Johann Michael Hartung (1708–1763) through her paternal grandmother Sabina Christ.

I'd say that his reported behavior as a president fits right in with a problematic teen-ager.  On January 6, 2021, following the defeat of U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a mob of his supporters attacked the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The mob sought to keep Trump in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the electoral college votes to  formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.  Video shows that he had urged them on, and did not take steps to stop them. A bipartisan Senate report found that at least seven people had lost their lives in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. 

Since leaving office, Trump has remained heavily involved in the Republican Party. In November 2022, he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election. In March 2023, a Manhattan grand jury indicted him on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, and in June a federal grand jury indicted him on 37 counts related to his handling of classified documents. No other president had previously been indicted in state or federal court. Today, June 13, 2023, he was indicted in New York's federal courtroom with the 37 issues against him.  He left from there to an election get-together.  

Any naches his family had received have been long gone since January 6 th.  He seems to be collecting indictments these days, both state and federal, and you don't give your parents any naches for those.   

Edited: 6/14/23-picture

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Donald_Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inauguration_of_Donald_Trump#:~:text=On%20the%20evening%20of%20January,his%20inauguration%20the%20following%20day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack#:~:text=On%20January%206%2C%202021%2C%20following,the%20electoral%20college%20votes%20to

https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-reason-President-Donald-Trump-at-age-13-was-enrolled-in-the-New-York-Military-Academy

Book: the Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-deaths.html

https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/military-schools-for-boys-and-girls/#most-exclusive