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Which I think was for a passport: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/graphics/politics/trump-archive/docs/friedrich-trump-naturalization.pdf
He said he arrived in the US on "15th October 1885; that I resided 18 years, uninterruptedly, in the United States from 1885 to 1904 at Seattle, Washington {illegible}; that I was naturalized as a citizen of the United States before the Superior Court of the {illegible} at Seattle on the 27th day of October 1892..."
But according to the Wikipedia article about him:
Role in Yukon gold rush
According to Blair's account, when Trump left for the Yukon, he had no plans to do actual mining.[3]:81 He likely travelled the White Pass route,[3]:83 which included the notorious "Dead Horse trail", so named because drivers whipped animals of transport until they literally dropped dead on the trail and were left to decompose. In the spring of 1898, Trump and another miner named Ernest Levin opened a tent restaurant along the trail. Blair writes that "a frequent dish was fresh-slaughtered, quick-frozen horse".[3]:84
In May 1898, Trump and Levin moved to Bennett, British Columbia,[9] a town known for prospectors building boats in order to travel to Dawson. In Bennett, Trump and Levin opened the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel, which offered fine dining, lodging and sex in a sea of tents.[3]:85[10] The Arctic was also originally housed in a tent, but demand for the hotel and restaurant grew until it occupied a two-story building.[3][10] A letter to the Yukon Sun newspaper described the Arctic:
The Arctic House was one of the largest and most extravagant restaurants in that region of the Klondike, offering fresh fruit and ptarmigan in addition to the staple of horsemeat.[10] The Arctic was open 24 hours a day and advertised "Rooms for ladies", which included beds and scales for measuring gold dust. The local Canadian Mounties were known to tolerate vice so long as it was conducted discreetly.[3]:86
In 1900, the one-hundred-and-eleven-mile (179 km) White Pass and Yukon Route, a railroad between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon, was completed. Trump founded the White Horse Restaurant and Inn in White Horse.[3]:87–88[11] They moved the building by barge, relocated on Front Street, and were operational by June.[3]:88–89
The new restaurant, which included one of the largest steel ranges in the area, prepared 3,000 meals per day and had space for gambling. Despite the enormous financial success, Trump and Levin began fighting due to Levin's drinking. They broke up their business relationship in February 1901, but reconciled in April. Around that time, the local government announced suppression on prostitution, gambling and liquor, though the crackdown was delayed by businessmen until later that year. In light of this impending threat to his business operation, Trump sold his share of the restaurant to Levin and left the Yukon.[2][3]
0–91 In the months that followed, Levin was arrested for public drunkenness and sent to jail, and the Arctic was taken over by the Mounties.[3] 2 The restaurant burned down in the White Horse fire of 1905.[12] Blair wrote that "once again, in a situation that created many losers, [Frederick Trump] managed to emerge a winner."[3] 3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump#Role_in_Yukon_gold_rush
According to Blair's account, when Trump left for the Yukon, he had no plans to do actual mining.[3]:81 He likely travelled the White Pass route,[3]:83 which included the notorious "Dead Horse trail", so named because drivers whipped animals of transport until they literally dropped dead on the trail and were left to decompose. In the spring of 1898, Trump and another miner named Ernest Levin opened a tent restaurant along the trail. Blair writes that "a frequent dish was fresh-slaughtered, quick-frozen horse".[3]:84
In May 1898, Trump and Levin moved to Bennett, British Columbia,[9] a town known for prospectors building boats in order to travel to Dawson. In Bennett, Trump and Levin opened the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel, which offered fine dining, lodging and sex in a sea of tents.[3]:85[10] The Arctic was also originally housed in a tent, but demand for the hotel and restaurant grew until it occupied a two-story building.[3][10] A letter to the Yukon Sun newspaper described the Arctic:
For single men the Arctic has excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in Bennett, but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings – and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex.[3]
The Arctic House was one of the largest and most extravagant restaurants in that region of the Klondike, offering fresh fruit and ptarmigan in addition to the staple of horsemeat.[10] The Arctic was open 24 hours a day and advertised "Rooms for ladies", which included beds and scales for measuring gold dust. The local Canadian Mounties were known to tolerate vice so long as it was conducted discreetly.[3]:86
In 1900, the one-hundred-and-eleven-mile (179 km) White Pass and Yukon Route, a railroad between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon, was completed. Trump founded the White Horse Restaurant and Inn in White Horse.[3]:87–88[11] They moved the building by barge, relocated on Front Street, and were operational by June.[3]:88–89
The new restaurant, which included one of the largest steel ranges in the area, prepared 3,000 meals per day and had space for gambling. Despite the enormous financial success, Trump and Levin began fighting due to Levin's drinking. They broke up their business relationship in February 1901, but reconciled in April. Around that time, the local government announced suppression on prostitution, gambling and liquor, though the crackdown was delayed by businessmen until later that year. In light of this impending threat to his business operation, Trump sold his share of the restaurant to Levin and left the Yukon.[2][3]
0–91 In the months that followed, Levin was arrested for public drunkenness and sent to jail, and the Arctic was taken over by the Mounties.[3] 2 The restaurant burned down in the White Horse fire of 1905.[12] Blair wrote that "once again, in a situation that created many losers, [Frederick Trump] managed to emerge a winner."[3] 3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump#Role_in_Yukon_gold_rush
Frederick Trump may not have lied on his naturalization papers but he certainly did on his passport application!
This was the passport he got when his wife was not happy in New York and he tried to move back to Germany where the authorities determined he was a draft dodger and evicted him from his birth country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump#Marriage_and_family Since Trump did not intend to return to the US when he left on that passport, he probably was not concerned about his lies.
