Why else had he long denied his German origins and preferred to pretend to be a descendant of Swedish immigrants? Donald wants to withdraw troops from Germany. Maybe that's an empty announcement again. In addition, the chances are increasing that Trump will soon have nothing to say anymore.
he hid his German heritage as many of the rich people he rented to were Jewish "Trump's family denied German heritage for years" https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/trump-family-heritage/index.html "John Walter, a Trump family historian and one of Donald Trump's cousins, said this was an effort to not offend his Jewish customers." ""He said, 'You don't sell apartments after the war if you're German,' " Walter said in the Boston Globe article. "So he's Swedish, no problem.""