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According to Fred Jr.'s daughter, Mary L. Trump, Fred Sr. wanted his oldest son to be "invulnerable" in personality so he could take over the family business, but Fred Jr. was the opposite. [198] Trump instead elevated Donald to become his business heir, teaching him to "be a killer", and telling him, "You are a king."
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump; German: [fʁi:dʁɪç tʁʊmp]; March 14, 1869 – May 30, 1918) was a German-American businessman. He was the patriarch of the Trump family and the paternal grandfather of Donald Trump , the 45th president and current president-elect of the United States .
Trump was born on December 21, 1913, [5] in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to Frederic A. Trump and Myrtle VanBrunt Trump. [ 3 ] [ a ] He graduated from Saint Paul Central High School in 1932. [ 6 ] He was married on February 11, 1937, in Los Angeles to Julianne Schmahl, [ 1 ] [ b ] the daughter of Republican Julius A. Schmahl , who served 24 terms as ...
In 1991, Fred Trump purchased $3.5 million in chips at one of his son’s Atlantic City casinos, which he did not intend to gamble with, to help pay off Donald Trump’s debts, the AP reported.
The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire is a 2000 biographical book written by Gwenda Blair, an adjunct professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, [1] about three generations of the Trump family, starting with Friedrich Trump (1869–1918) who immigrated to the United States in 1885 from Kingdom of Bavaria (now in Germany), [1]: 28 then Fred Trump (1905–1999 ...
The billionaire businessman launched his real-estate empire with the support of his father, Fred Trump, who built homes in Queens and Brooklyn. But Donald Trump dismissed the support as "a small ...
Donald Trump’s nephew discussed the family’s history of dementia and possible signs of the condition in his uncle during an interview last week.. Fred Trump III, the son of Donald Trump’s ...
Her middle child, Donald Trump's father Fred Trump, entered the carpentry trade after graduating high school in 1923. [26] Fred would later say he completed his first single-family home in 1924, [27] [28] but other sources date his start as a builder to 1927. [29]