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American businessman and political candidate (1913-1968)
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
The record shows Donald Trump received a medical deferment in 1968 for "bone spurs" in his heels that disqualified him from the Vietnam draft (reported in multiple outlets) and that in late 2018 the N...
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...
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...
The 1973 lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice accused Fred and Donald Trump and Trump Management of systemic violations of the Fair Housing Act; it was litigated for about two years and resolved ...
Public records and reporting show no direct, documented proof that Fred Trump’s donations secured Donald Trump’s admission to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School; contemporaneous accounts ...
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 has been sued or the subject of government litigation alleging racially discriminatory conduct going back to at least 1973, when the U.S. Department of Justice sued Trump Management, Dona...
Donald Trump received the equivalent of roughly from his father over his lifetime, a figure often rounded to , but that amount was not a single lump-sum payment and was not entirely available when he ...