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American businessman (1869–1918)
Donald Trump’s closest ancestors immigrated to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: his paternal grandfather Friedrich (often spelled Friedrich Trump) arrived from Germany in 1...
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...
Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1885, returned to Germany, lost his Bavarian citizenship for skipping military service an...
Available reporting establishes that Donald Trump’s grandparents were immigrants: Friedrich (Fred) Trump and Elizabeth Christ emigrated from German-speaking regions; Friedrich arrived in 1885 as a tee...
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...
Fred Trump built a real-estate empire centered on building and managing thousands of housing units in New York, expanding from single-family homes to large apartment portfolios and wartime housing pro...
Multiple publicly available biographies, government-facing summaries, and archival references cite his birth in Queens, New York, with the date June 14, 1946, though some discussions note that a forma...
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...
There is , but historians and fact-checkers say the claim that he built his fortune primarily as a pimp or from prostitution is . Contemporary newspaper ads and later reporting describe “private rooms...
Reputable historians and several well-sourced journalistic accounts report that Friedrich (Frederick) Trump ran restaurants and hotels in the Pacific Northwest and Yukon during the Klondike era that r...
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 Trump is repeatedly described in mainstream sources as White and of European (largely German) ancestry; contemporary reporting and background pieces identify his family as of German descent . M...