Afghan boy is bizarrely named ‘Donald Trump’ by his superfan parents… and now they say their life has been ruined
The superfan dad named his son after the tycoon in the hopes his good fortune would rub off on his son - but it's had the opposite effect on his family
THE family of a young boy from Afghanistan have said their lives are ruined after his superfan parents named him Donald Trump.
Born in September 2016 as his namesake was running for President of the United States, the 18-month-old was named by his father because of his admiration of the tycoon.
This Donald Trump is the third child of Jamila and Sayed Assadullah in Shahristan District, and was in the central Afghan province of Daikundi.
Sayed comes from a poor farming family but earned a college degree, read Trump’s books and watched him on television.
He told that he hoped naming his son after a famous real estate developer and television star would "rub off" on the child's fortunes.
But the naming has had the opposite effect, and has only added to the family's misfortunes.
Sayed says the decision to give the child a non-Muslim name angered his relatives so much that the family no longer felt welcome in their village in Daikundi, and moved to a rental home in Kabul.
He added: "When I named my son Donald Trump, they were not happy.
"They told me, ‘How you can select the name of an infidel for your son?'"
The naming of the young Donald Trump had been private even after they moved to Kabul, but a copy of the child's national ID circulated on social media recently and Sayed believes it was put out by employees of the population registration department without his permission.
Sayed says when he went to the government office responsible for verifying IDs from other provinces, he was treated with disrespect and threatened to be sent to Afghan intelligence agency for questioning - just for naming his son Donald Trump.
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"The employees of the department saw the name and they asked me, ‘What is this? Donald Trump?’ I said 'yes, is there any problem?'"
Sayed says they looked at him in a strange way and called him "culture-less" for naming his son after the US President.
While critics have said the family gave their son the controversial name for attention, Sayed said they never intended for their child's identity to be so public.
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