Bio of donald trumps mother and father
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Trump's parents and siblings: What do we know of them?
President Donald Trump's family are once again in the spotlight, but this time it is his parents and siblings rather than his children.
A New York Times' investigation says it has found evidence that Mr Trump's property mogul father Fred dodged millions of dollars in taxes with often dubious strategies that channelled his wealth to his five children.
It also accuses Donald Trump and his siblings of "setting up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents" - accusations denied by Mr Trump's youngest brother, Robert.
So what do we know of Fred, his wife Mary Anne and their five children - the fourth of whom is now president of the United States.
Fred Trump
Frederick Christ Trump was born in New York in 1905 to German immigrants, Elizabeth Christ and Frederick Trump. His father had already invested in real esta
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On October 7, 1885, Friedrich Trump, a 16-year-old German barber,
boarded a ship with a one-way ticket to America, escaping three years of compulsory German military service. He had been a sickly child, unsuited to hard labor, and feared the effects of the draft. It might have been illegal, but amerika didn’t care about this law-breaking—at that time, Germans were seen as highly desirable migrants—and Trump was welcomed with open arms. Less than two weeks later, he arrived in New York, where he would eventually establish his family and start a real estate business. More than a century later, his grandson, Donald Trump, became the 45th and 47th president of Friedrich’s adopted home.
But for decades, Friedrich Trump’s son and grandson denied this German heritage altogether, instead claiming that his grandfather’s roots lay further north, in Scandinavia.
“[He] came here from Sweden as a child,” Trump asserted in his co-written book The Art of the Deal. In fact, his cousin and fam
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Family of Donald Trump
Immediate family of the US President
| Family of Donald Trump | |
|---|---|
From left to right: Donald, Barron, Melania, Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, and Tiffany Trump | |
| Current region | Manhattan, New York City, New York / Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Titles | |
| Members | Donald Trump Melania Trump Donald Trump Jr. Ivanka Trump Eric Trump Tiffany Trump Barron Trump |
| Connected members | Ivana Trump Marla Maples Fred Trump Mary Anne MacLeod Trump Frederick Trump Elizabeth Christ Trump John George Trump Maryanne Trump Barry Fred Trump Jr. Robert Trump Fred Trump III Mary L. Trump Kai Trump Vanessa Trump Jared Kushner Lara Trump Michael Boulos |
| Connected families | Clan MacLeod |
The family of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States and owner of the Trump Organization, is an American family of German and Scottish descent.[1] The