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Donald Trump has not publicly identified himself as Jewish and available reporting describes him as raised Presbyterian and of German/Scottish family background; multiple fact-check and history pieces...
Historical records and modern reporting show Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Bavaria to the United States in 1885 at age 16 to join his sister; under Bavarian law his departure before compl...
Frederick Trump, born Friedrich Trump in Kallstadt, Kingdom of Bavaria, did become a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1892 and anglicized his given name to “Frederick” at or about that time . The question ...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump — Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather — emigrated from Bavaria to the United States in 1885 at age 16 and entered through Castle Garden in New York; his departure violated ...
Donald Trump’s paternal grandparents were Friedrich (Frederick) Trump and Elizabeth Christ Trump, both born in Kallstadt in what is now Germany; his maternal grandparents were Mary Anne MacLeod’s pare...
The available reporting shows scant concrete evidence that Donald Trump has Jewish ancestry: mainstream genealogical accounts trace his paternal line to Lutheran Germans from Kallstadt and his mother ...
Frederick Trump’s original family name appears in historical accounts as (with variants like Trumpf/Drumpft), and he was born in Germany as before immigrating to North America; multiple sources agree ...
Two of Donald Trump’s four grandparents immigrated to the United States: his paternal grandfather Friedrich (Frederick) Trump arrived from Kallstadt in the Kingdom of Bavaria in October 1885 at age 16...
Donald Trump’s ancestry is , with the paternal line tracing to Kallstadt in Bavaria (originally spelled “Drumpf/Drumpft”) and the maternal line to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland; both lines are documen...
Published reporting and commentary identify some German relatives of Donald Trump’s extended family who served in the Wehrmacht and at least one individual described as a Nazi Party member in secondar...
Donald Trump’s paternal ancestors trace to Kallstadt in the Palatinate (then Bavarian) region of Germany: his grandfather Friedrich (Friederich/Frederick) Trump was born there in 1869 and emigrated to...
Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather, Friedrich (Frederick) Trump, emigrated from Kallstadt in the Palatinate region, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria (present-day Germany), to the United States as ...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump left Kallstadt, Bavaria, for the United States at age 16 in 1885 largely to escape compulsory military service and because the village offered limited economic prospects; h...
Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather, Friedrich (Frederick) Trump, immigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 as a teenager and later ran businesses in the U.S.; historical record...
Donald Trump’s family history supports the central elements of the statement: he is , he is , and he has been , with two of his three wives born abroad. Contemporary biographical records and reporting...
Donald J. Trump’s parents were Frederick Christ “Fred” Trump (born October 11, 1905) and Mary Anne MacLeod (born May 10, 1912), a Scottish immigrant; Fred became a prominent New York real-estate devel...
Public, verifiable records do not establish Jewish ancestry in the main Trump family line; standard genealogies trace the family to Lutheran forebears in Kallstadt, Germany, while commentators and fri...
Two of Donald Trump’s four grandparents immigrated to the United States from Europe: his paternal grandfather Friedrich (Frederick) Trump left Germany and returned to the U.S. by 1885 and again in 190...
Records show Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt, Bavaria, to the United States in 1885 and appears in U.S. immigration and census records under anglicized names; biographers and publ...
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump) was born on 14 March 1869 in the village of Kallstadt (then in the Palatinate, part of the Kingdom of Bavaria), according to multiple genealogical and historical...