Front-runner TRUTHINESS* #1
     Starting today, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, and from time to time during this presidential political campaign, there will be facts provided about each of the front-runners.  At this time, the front-runner for the Democratic Party is Hillary Rodham Clinton and, for the Republican Party, it is Donald Drumpf (previous iteration of the name of "Trump" researched by John Oliver).  One fact per post.  This is the first.
     HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON*
     "Hillary grew up in a middle-class home in Park Ridge, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago.  Her dad, Hugh, was a WWII Navy veteran and a small-business owner, who designed, printed and sold drapes.  Hillary helped with the family business whenever she could.
     Hugh was a rock-ribbed Republican, a pay-as-you-go kind of guy, who worked hard and wasted nothing.
     Hillary's mother, Dorothy, had a tough childhood.  She was abandoned by her parents as a young child and shipped off to live with relatives who didn't want to raise her.
     By age 14, Dorothy knew the only way she'd get by was to support herself, and she started working as a housekeeper and babysitter while she went to high school.  Her mother's experience inspired Hillary to fight for the needs of children everywhere."
     DONALD DRUMPF*
     How did "Drumpf" become "Trump"?
     Donald's German ancestors were wine-growers named "Drumpf" and decided during the Thirty Years' War to change their name (1618-1648).  Fred C. Trump, Donald's father, introduced the "Trump" name to America (Donald is a second-generation immigrant).  He had grocery stores and a real estate company, and drove a navy blue Cadillac that had an FCT license plate.
     Why change the last name?
     (1)  Research says sound of the name is important.  A "ph" at the end sounds almost comical in English; "dr" isn't as sharp and reminds us of "drug" and "drop"; and people with easily pronounced names are seen as more likeable.
     (2)  Research says meaning of the name is important.  "Trump" carries associations, like a name whose definition is uniquely appropriate for someone's profession (kind of like a urologist last-named "Chopp", or a Cardinal last-named "Sin".)  The name Trump "...implies victory and dominance".  It conjures up "'trump card'...and is derived from 'triumph'".  "Trumpet", in its shorter version of "Trump", seems to fit.
     (3)  There's also another side to the coin.  "Trump" can mean "fabricate or deceive".  "To trump up" can mean "forge" or "invent", like "trumped-up charges" or "trumped-up rhetoric, or "trumped-up politics".
     Washington Post reported last fall that "Trump is a compulsive golf cheat, 'the worst celebrity golf cheat,' according to Alice Cooper".  It would seem "trumped-up" is spot-on all the way around.

*Hillary Clinton.com
*Britt Peterson, Boston Globe correspondent, 9/9/2015
*Stephen Colbert's creation