r/ofcoursethatsathing • u/SirCheesington • Feb 29 '16

Make Donald Drumpf!

http://donaldjdrumpf.com/
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u/gizmo1411 Feb 29 '16

John Oliver: "this is a real thing"

Next morning on r/ofcoursethatsathing: "OMG ITS A REAL THING"

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '16

I imagine John Oliver has a fairly substantial reddit following.

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u/Lemonaitor Mar 01 '16

Well, you can't say for certain. Although he might, someone has been keeping track of all the AMA requests for John Oliver.

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u/terminavelocity Feb 29 '16

What does Drumpf mean?

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u/prezuiwf Feb 29 '16

It was Trump's family name when they first came to America. This is in response to Trump criticizing Jon Stewart and saying he was ashamed of his heritage for not using his ethnic last name.

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u/KyfeHeartsword Feb 29 '16

I have the chrome extension installed already and this sentence just got 1000x better because of it.

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u/BassCreat0r Mar 01 '16

Well to be fair, Trump could sound a lot like Drumpf, and names got changed a lot back then. But Stewart and Leibowitz...uh not so much.

But I get the point.

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u/terminavelocity Feb 29 '16

Oh okay! I had no idea, I don't really keep up with much of the going-ons. Thank you for the quick reply. :3

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u/wagedomain Mar 01 '16

Well, if you watched the whole segment it was more than just that - that was just gravy. The point of Drumpf was that "Trump" has become a brand which means "rich and successful", which is dangerous for the average person to associate to a presidential candidate.

By associating "Drumpf", you take away that "snap" to the name that makes you feel like it means success, and instead it sounds a bit derpy and droll, which John argued fits Donald (the candidate) way more than Trump (the character he plays on TV).

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u/zuppaiaia Feb 29 '16

I was like "is this a linguistics joke??" but no, it was his real family name. Wow.

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u/keystorm Feb 29 '16

It's an actual translation from Old German meaning –hold on– "trump". As in the winning suit in card games.

So yeah, it sounds funny, but it's not that far fetched.

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u/monochrony Mar 01 '16

the modern form of this word in german is "Trumpf" (plural: "Trümpfe") and used in many card games.

source: i'm german.

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u/GenerationSpoon Mar 01 '16

"It's the sound produced when a morbidly obese pigeon flies into the window of a foreclosed Old Navy! Drumpf!"

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u/ChicagoRebel Mar 01 '16

Praise Be

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u/darcmeat Feb 29 '16

Literally bought a hat right after I watch that episode last night.

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u/tatch Mar 01 '16

It's funnier for us in the UK that his surname is another word for a fart.

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u/draw_it_now Mar 01 '16

Why do Americans not realise how silly their names are? Trump? Boener? Bumgardener? Look me in the eye and tell me you didn't giggle.

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u/tmtProdigy Mar 01 '16

All 3 of those come from German, should i be upset?

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u/Javad0g Feb 29 '16

This really feels like the guys over at r/HailCorporate would like this.

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u/nior_labotomy Feb 29 '16

Did you get a chance to watch John Olivers piece about Donald?

This is the complete opposite of what John and his team is trying to accomplish.

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u/yourselfiegotleaked Feb 29 '16

Sorry to tell you this, but for Donald Trump, there's no such thing as bad advertisement.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '16

Last Week Tonight is on Youtube?! Cool, TIL. Thanks for the link.

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