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The Trump family's German ancestry, with standard genealogies tracing the family to Lutheran forebears in Kallstadt, Germany.
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...
For much of the mid‑20th century members of the Trump family — most notably and later his son — presented a n or “” origin for the family, a portrayal rooted in deliberate obfuscation of a German past...
has publicly discussed his family’s ancestry on multiple occasions, sometimes inconsistently: he has written that his paternal line was “Swedish” in yet later publicly embraced German heritage and rep...