WHAT'S UP WITH THAT? (Post #1, by Azizi Powell, July 30, 2024; update August 3, 2024)
"What's Up With That?" is a periodic pancocojams series.
These brief "What's Up With That?" posts insist of my editorial note/s along with some other information, comments, and/or pancocojams blog link/s or other internet link/s.
So here goes:
What's up with the recurrence of the name and the initial "Donald J" in association with the United States Presidential election?
A. Everybody knows the former United States President's name is Donald J Trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
Donald
John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality,
and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017
to 2021.
[...]
Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at Jamaica
Hospital in Queens, New York City,[1] the fourth child of Fred Trump and Mary
Anne MacLeod Trump. Trump grew up with older siblings Maryanne, Fred Jr., and
Elizabeth and younger brother Robert in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of
Queens, and attended the private Kew-Forest School from kindergarten through
seventh grade.[2][3][4]"...
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B. People may not know that JD Vance, Donald J Trump's nominee for 2024 Republican Vice President used to have the middle name "Donald" and therefore had an inverted form of the name & initial "Donald J".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance
"James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman;[a] August 2,
1984),[2][3] better known as JD Vance,[b] is an American politician, former
corporate lawyer,[5] author, and Marine veteran serving since 2023 as the
junior United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, Vance
is Donald Trump's running mate and the Republican nominee for vice president in
the 2024 United States presidential election."
[...]
James Donald Bowman was born on August 2, 1984, in
Middletown, Ohio, to Beverly Carol (née Vance; born 1961) and Donald Ray Bowman
(1959–2023). He is of Scots-Irish descent.[10][11] His parents divorced when he
was a toddler. After Bowman was adopted by his mother's third husband, Bob
Hamel, his mother changed his name to James David Hamel to remove his father's
name but used the name of one of her brothers to preserve his nickname,
JD.[12][13]"...
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C. People may not know that Kamala Harris' father's name is "Donald J Harris".
Kamala Harris, of course, is the presumptive 2024 Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Kamala_Harris
"Donald J. Harris is the father of Kamala Harris. He is a
Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University,
originally from Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica. Of Afro-Jamaican descent, Harris was
born on August 23, 1938, to Beryl Christie Harris (née Finegan)[19][20] and
Oscar Joseph Harris.[21] He grew up in the Orange Hill area of Saint Ann
Parish, near Brown's Town.[22][23] Harris received a Bachelor of Arts from the
University College of the West Indies in 1960. In 1963 he came to the United
States to earn a PhD from University of California, Berkeley which he completed
in 1966.[24] He met his future wife, Shyamala Gopalan through the civil rights
movement.[25] Harris was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois
at Urbana–Champaign from 1966 to 1967 and at Northwestern University from 1967
to 1968. He moved to the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an associate
professor in 1968. In 1972, he joined the faculty of Stanford University as a
professor of economics. He directed the Consortium Graduate School of Social
Sciences at the University of the West Indies in 1986–1987. He was a Fulbright
Scholar in Brazil in 1990 and 1991 and in Mexico in 1992. In 1998, he retired
from Stanford becoming a professor emeritus."
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I don't know what the "J" in Donald J Harris stands for. Does anybody know? If so, please share that info below. Thanks!
Update August 3, 2024: Donald J. Harris' middle name is "Jasper".
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Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lckt2JoRTmU for a YouTube video entitled "Rare Footage: Donald Harris, Kamala Harris' Father, Sharing
Insights as a Professor in 1989 #kamala", published by The TrailBlazers with Tamara McKayle TV, August 1, 2024
Here are a few comments from that video's discussion thread:
1. @puppa2001,August 2, 2024
"Wow and his name is Donald J.."
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2. @Afrotube-xd5, August 2, 2024
"That's not ironic, it is coincidence"
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3. @1arleeny,August 2, 2024
"But Donald J though can’t make this stuff up lol"
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What does the recurrence of the name "Donald" with the initial "J" mean in association with the United States 2024 Presidential election??
It beats me.
But I wonder if Donald Duck has a middle name and if it begins with the letter "J" (not that that Walt Disney character is still a part of the United States Presidential election since Florida's Ron DeSantis was drummed out of the campaign for the Republican Presidential nomination). Yet, it would really be something if Donald Duck's middle name was "John".
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In the context of this pancocojams "What's Up With That" series, the question "What's up with that?" should be interpreted as calling attention to some coincidences, or something else that is note worthy and saying "Check this out. "What does that mean?"
ReplyDeleteFor instance, what, if anything, does it mean that Donald J Trump, JD Vance, and Kamala Harris's father Donald J Harris all have the name "Donald". Maybe it doesn't mean anything at all. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but if it's not weird, isn't it kinda spooky?
Sometimes some things, like these first names as mentioned above or like the last name that some people in the news have make me feel that the universe is playing games with us, hopefully for a good reason or good reasons
You get what I mean?
I apologize for that screen image that somehow found its way in this post when I updated it to add more information about Kamala Harris' father Donald J Harris. I don't know how that image got there and don't know how to delete it.
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