A campaign to make Donald 'Drumpf' again

March 02, 2016 01:46

Comedian John Oliver is trying to get voters to call Donald Trump by his ancestral name: Drumpf. How much of the candidate's power lies in his famous last name?

Oliver pointed out the fact that -- according to Gwenda Blair, the author of the book The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire -- the family's surname was originally Drumpf, a decidedly less-regal moniker.

"Stop and take a moment to imagine how you would feel if you just met a guy named Donald Drumpf -- a litigious serial liar with a string of broken business ventures," Oliver continued. "Would you think he would make a good president or is the spell now somewhat broken?"

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