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American businessman and political candidate (1913-1968)
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...
Susie Wiles’s remark that President Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality” sparked widespread media uptake, but experts say “alcoholic personality” is a misleading, stigmatizing phrase and Trump himse...
Donald Trump received a medical deferment from the Vietnam draft in 1968 for “bone spurs” in his heels, a fact reported in contemporary and retrospective coverage . Multiple lines of reporting and tes...
Claims that Donald Trump’s ancestors were “racist Nazis” are mixed between unsupported sensational reports and discussions about fascist sympathies in U.S. history. Primary reporting in the provided s...
Available reporting and commentary in the provided sources shows claims that members of Donald Trump’s family or circle had ties to U.S. extremist movements in the 20th century, but contemporary fact‑...
Donald Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod (also spelled Macleod), was an immigrant from Scotland; multiple historical profiles describe her arrival and naturalization and do not support a clear finding...
The short answer: reporting and commentary have repeatedly claimed that Fred Trump or other family members created a controlled or “fake” work environment for Donald to keep him calm or occupied, but ...
Estimates of how much of Donald Trump’s fortune came from his father versus business earnings vary widely and depend on methodology: most recent profiles put his net worth in 2025 in the low‑to‑mid bi...
Mary Anne MacLeod immigrated from Scotland to New York in 1930 and became a U.S. citizen in March 1942; contemporary reporting and document-based accounts find no evidence she lived in the United Stat...
Donald Trump is one of five children of Fred and Mary Anne Trump; his siblings include Maryanne (a former federal judge), the late Fred Jr., Elizabeth (the lone surviving sibling as of multiple profil...
is an American national by birth: he was born in , on June 14, 1946, and official White House and historical biographies state his birthplace and parentage . His family background is of and Scottish d...
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 ...
absorbed ’s central injunctions — relentless positive visualization, refusal to entertain “failure thoughts,” and faith in self as moral and practical authority — and those lessons became a through-li...
The simple claim that “’s father was a Klansman” is not supported with definitive proof: contemporary newspapers list a “” among men arrested at a in , but historians and fact-checkers emphasize ambig...
Donald Trump was one of five children of Fred and Mary Anne Trump; his siblings each followed distinct trajectories — Maryanne into law and the federal bench, Fred Jr. into aviation and a tragic battl...
Federal prosecutors sued Donald Trump, his father Fred Trump and Trump Management in 1973 alleging systematic refusal to rent to Black and Puerto Rican applicants across roughly 39 buildings and 14,00...
Barron William Trump is the only child of Donald J. Trump and Melania Trump; he was born March 20, 2006, in New York City and has been publicly described as raised primarily by his mother, Melania . R...
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...
Fred Trump’s real estate practices generated major controversies, most notably a 1973 federal lawsuit alleging systematic racial discrimination in housing that resulted in a consent decree requiring c...
Multiple contemporaneous and later news accounts report that Fred Trump was among several men detained after a violent Memorial Day weekend clash involving a Ku Klux Klan parade in Queens in 1927. The...