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Mother of Donald Trump (1912–2000)
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...
Mainstream fact‑checks find no reliable evidence that Mary Anne MacLeod Trump — Donald Trump’s mother who died in 2000 — said the widely shared line “Yes, he’s an idiot with zero common sense … I just...
traces to y); , — commonly dated to October 7, 1885 — as a 16‑year‑old immigrant . The family also includes on the maternal side: , was born in Scotland and became an American citizen in 1942 . The wi...
Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1991 and experienced progressive cognitive decline before his death in 1999, a fact reported across multiple accounts a...
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...
Primary sources and modern reporting show Mary Anne MacLeod immigrated from Scotland in 1929–1930, declared intent to naturalize, and did not become a U.S. citizen until March 10, 1942 — nearly four y...
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...
There is no verifiable, contemporary record that Mary Anne MacLeod Trump publicly called her son Donald Trump “an idiot” or said he would be “a disaster” in politics; major fact‑checks and archive sea...
Multiple fact-checking reviews find that Mary Anne Trump, Donald Trump’s mother, publicly called her son “an idiot” or said he had “zero common sense” and “no social skills.” The claim appears to be a...
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 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...
Donald Trump’s parents were Fred C. Trump (commonly styled Fred Trump or Fred Trump Sr.) and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump; Fred was a New York real‑estate developer who built a residential-construction bus...
Barron William Trump is consistently identified in mainstream biographical reporting as the only child of Donald Trump and Melania Trump, born March 20, 2006, and raised as part of the Trump first fam...
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...
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 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...
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...
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Donald Trump’s mother, has of calling her son an “idiot” or saying he had “zero common sense,” and multiple fact-checking organizations concluded the quote circulating online ...