About

Fred Trump Comparisons refers to a series of image macros in which people mock the appearance Fred Trump, United States President Donald Trump's father.

Origin

On October 2nd, 2018, The New York Times^[1] released a special investigation, revealing that much of President Trump's wealth comes his father Fred's real estate business. The unearthed a renewed interest in Fred Trump, leading to various tweets about him.

That day, Twitter^[2] user @ParkerMolloy posted a 1993 photograph^[6] of Fred Trump and a photograph of Mary Trump. She captioned the tweet, "Trump’s parents look like they’re secondary characters from a Tim Burton movie come to life." The post received more than 22,000 retweets and 84,000 likes in three days.

Spread

The following day, Twitter^[3] user @zackfox tweeted a photograph of a child receiving the same picture of Fred Trump on their iPad. They captioned the tweet, "Y’all I just airdropped a pic of trumps dad to this lil kid on my flight he said 'MOM, MOOOOOMMMMM' 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂" The tweet recevied more than 26,000 retweets and 131,000 likes in two days.

That day, people began posting images of Trump's father opposite various cartoon characters. For example, Twitter^[4] user @baltazars14 posted an image of Fred Turmp next to Nigel from The Wild Thorberrys (shown below, center).

Others made jokes about his appearance. Twitter^[5] user @BigPlasticRobot tweeted, "Trump’s dad liked to wear other people’s faces from time to time. Mostly to scare his kids" (shown below, right).

On October 4th, Nylon^[7] published a listicle of variations of the meme.

Various Examples

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