What is the full Trump family tree and who are the mothers of each of Donald Trump's children?
Executive summary
Donald Trump is the father of five children from three marriages: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric (with first wife Ivana Trump); Tiffany (with second wife Marla Maples); and Barron (with third wife Melania Trump) [1]. The broader family includes multiple grandchildren and a sizable public footprint, but the core question—who the mothers of each child are—is straightforward in primary reporting [2] [3].
1. The three marriages that produced five children
Donald Trump’s five children come from three distinct marital relationships: his first marriage to Ivana Zelnickova (Ivana Trump) produced three children; his second marriage to Marla Maples produced one; and his third marriage to Melania Trump produced one [1] [4].
2. Children with Ivana Trump — Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric
The three eldest children—Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump—are the offspring of Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana (née Zelníčková), whom he married in 1977; Ivana later held executive roles in Trump businesses and became a U.S. citizen in 1988 [1] [4]. Reporting consistently lists those three as Ivana’s children and as Donald’s eldest: Donald Jr. (born 1977), Ivanka (born 1981) and Eric (born 1984) [4].
3. Child with Marla Maples — Tiffany
Tiffany Trump is Donald Trump’s sole child with his second wife, Marla Maples; Tiffany’s parentage and Marla’s role as Trump’s second spouse are recorded in mainstream profiles of the family [1] [3]. Coverage of Tiffany often notes her different maternal lineage relative to Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric, and places her squarely as the product of the 1990s relationship and marriage to Maples [2].
4. Child with Melania Trump — Barron
Barron Trump is Donald Trump’s youngest child and the only child from his marriage to Melania Trump; that parentage is uniformly reported in family summaries and profiles [1] [5]. Melania and Barron have been presented in media reporting as a separate nuclear unit within the broader Trump family in recent years [2].
5. Where the sourcing is consistent — and where limitations remain
Major outlets and reference pages—Wikipedia (Trump family), TIME, People, E! News and institutional profiles—converge on the simple, consistent fact pattern above: five children tied to three mothers across three marriages [1] [2] [3] [6]. These sources also document related family details such as grandchildren counts and sibling background, but this reporting is largely focused on contemporary public roles rather than exhaustive genealogical documentation [1] [7]. If more granular data is required—precise birth dates for each child, legal documents, or private-family disputes—those specifics are not comprehensively provided in the collection of news summaries cited here and would require primary records or deeper archival sourcing [4] [6].
6. Political and narrative context to the family tree
The media framing of the Trump family often serves political and publicity ends—portraying some children as business lieutenants, others as private or positioned for political optics—and that framing can influence which family relationships are emphasized in coverage [2] [3]. Readers should note that while the maternal attributions are factual and stable across mainstream sources, the prominence and roles assigned to individual children change with political cycles and business developments, a potential agenda implicit in partisan and lifestyle reporting [2] [8].