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American airplane pilot; elder brother of Donald Trump
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...
Donald J. Trump earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1968 after spending two years at Fordham University and then transferring to Wharton a...
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 ...
Available reporting documents that members of Donald Trump’s family — notably his grandfather Frederick Trump Sr. — had Alzheimer’s/dementia, and relatives and journalists have described other family ...
Donald Trump’s transfer from Fordham to the Wharton School in the mid-1960s is widely reported to have been aided by a personal connection — an admissions officer, James A. Nolan, who had ties to the ...
Donald Trump transferred from Fordham University to the University of Pennsylvania to enroll in the Wharton School because he sought a business education he considered a better fit for his goals and w...
Donald Trump has repeatedly framed his stance on drugs around his older brother Fred Trump Jr.’s struggle with alcoholism and has consistently , a claim appearing in public remarks and interviews acro...
Four siblings—Robert, Fred Jr., Maryanne and Elizabeth—shaped different corners of Donald Trump’s private life and business orbit: Robert as the closest business confidant and operational manager, Fre...
Mary L. Trump is not Donald Trump’s sister; she is his niece—the daughter of his older brother Fred Trump Jr.—a fact repeatedly stated in profiles and reporting about her book, lawsuits, and public cr...
Fred Trump Sr.'s documented cognitive decline in his later years helped create legal and familial fault lines that reshaped control and perception of the Trump family's real-estate empire, feeding law...
Donald Trump is a scion of a large, multigenerational family rooted in real estate and public life: he is the fourth of five children of Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, the father of five children s...
Donald Trump began college at Fordham University in 1964 and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School as a junior, graduating with a B.S. in economics in 1968 . Contemporary acco...
Contemporary sources show Donald Trump transferred from Fordham to Wharton in 1966 and graduated in 1968; firsthand accounts and later Wharton materials give a picture of transfer rules today but do n...
Contemporary reporting and multiple university and media accounts agree that Donald J. Trump began college at Fordham University, transferred to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a...
Available reporting does not find evidence that Fred Trump (Donald Trump’s father) made donations to the University of Pennsylvania that were explicitly tied to securing Donald Trump’s admission; univ...
Contemporary reporting says Donald Trump transferred from Fordham to Wharton in 1966 and graduated from Wharton in 1968; multiple accounts assert his transfer was aided by a family connection and an a...
Donald Trump transferred from Fordham University to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-1960s; contemporary reporting and later fact-checks report and a desire for a more p...
The materials provided do not state how long Donald Trump attended Fordham University before transferring, and therefore the specific duration cannot be confirmed from these documents. —biographical m...
Donald Trump’s undergraduate major at Fordham University is not established by the set of provided sources; none of the supplied documents explicitly identify his major during his time at Fordham. The...
Wharton does not publish its internal verification practices publicly in the provided materials, and contemporary reporting about Donald Trump’s Wharton record highlights disputes over admissions and ...