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Fred Trump

October 20, 2023

This article is about Donald Trump's father. For Fred Trump's father, see Frederick Trump. For his son, see Fred Trump Jr. For the Arizona politician, see Fred Trump (politician).

Frederick Christ Trump Sr. (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was an American real-estate developer and businessman. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.

Fred Trump
Trump c. 1986
Born
Frederick Christ Trump

(1905-10-11)October 11, 1905
New York City, U.S.
DiedJune 25, 1999(1999-06-25) (aged 93)
New Hyde Park, New York, U.S.
Burial placeLutheran All Faiths Cemetery, New York City
EducationPratt Institute
OccupationHead of The Trump Organization
Spouse
​
(m. 1936)​
Children
Parent(s)Frederick Trump
Elizabeth Christ Trump
RelativesSee Trump family
AwardsHoratio Alger Award

Born in the Bronx to German immigrants, Fred began working in home construction and sales in the 1920s before heading the real-estate business started by his parents (later known as the Trump Organization).[a] Utilizing federal aid, Fred's company rose to success, building and managing single-family houses in Queens, apartments for war workers on the East Coast during World War II, and more than 27,000 apartments in New York City overall. Trump was investigated for profiteering by a U.S. Senate committee in 1954 and again by New York State in 1966. Donald Trump became the president of his father's real-estate business in 1971, and they were sued by the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division for violating the Fair Housing Act in 1973; in the case settlement, the Trumps were ordered to take several measures to curb racial discrimination.

From World War II until the 1980s, to avoid associations with Nazism, Trump denied his German ancestry (instead claiming Swedish heritage) and supported Jewish causes.[b][c] During Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, reports of Fred's arrest at a 1927 Ku Klux Klan parade gained publicity,[d] although there is no conclusive evidence that he supported the organization. Additionally, as president, Donald repeatedly and falsely claimed that his father was born in Germany.[e]

Contradicting Donald Trump's campaign claim that he built a multi-billion-dollar company using "a small loan of a million dollars" from his father, in 2018 The New York Times reported that Trump and his wife provided over $1 billion (in 2018 currency) to their progeny overall, avoiding over $500 million in gift taxes; e.g. in 1987, Trump bought $15.5 million in shares in Trump Palace Condominiums, which he later sold to Donald for $10,000; in 1992 these two set up a subsidiary which was evidently used to funnel Fred's money to his surviving children; shortly before his death, Fred transferred the bulk of his apartment buildings to his children, who several years later sold them for over 16 times their previously declared worth.

Early life and career Edit

See also: Trump family
 
Trump (far left) with his family, c. 1915

Trump's father, the German American Friedrich Trump, amassed considerable wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush by running a restaurant and brothel for the miners. Friedrich returned to Kallstadt in 1901, and, by the next year, met and married Elizabeth Christ.[14] They moved to New York City, where their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1904.[15] Later that year, the family returned to Kallstadt.[16] Fred was conceived in Bavaria, where his parents wished to re-establish residency, but Friedrich was banished for dodging the draft.[17][16] The family returned to New York on July 1, 1905, and moved to the Bronx, where Frederick Christ Trump was born on October 11.[18] Fred's younger brother, John G. Trump, was born in 1907. All three children were raised speaking German.[19] In September 1908, the family moved to Woodhaven, Queens.[20]

Many details of Trump's childhood come from autobiographical accounts and emphasize independence, learning and especially hard work – to the point of being somewhat fictionalized.[21][f] At the age of 10, Trump worked as a delivery boy for a butcher.[24] About two years later, his father died in the 1918 flu pandemic.[25] From 1918 to 1923, Fred attended Richmond Hill High School in Queens,[26] while working as a caddy, curb whitewasher, delivery boy, and newspaper hawker.[27][28] Meanwhile, his mother continued the real-estate business Frederick had begun. Interested in becoming a builder, Fred put up a garage for a neighbor and took night classes in carpentry and reading blueprints. He also studied plumbing, masonry, and electrical wiring via correspondence courses.[27][g]

After graduating in January 1923, Trump obtained full-time work pulling lumber to construction sites.[33] He continued his carpentry education and went on to be a carpenter's assistant.[h] Trump's mother loaned him $800 to build his first house, which he completed and sold in 1924.[37][30][38] By 1926, Trump had built 20 homes in Queens, selling some before they were finished to finance others.[38] Elizabeth Trump held the business in her name because Fred had not reached the age of majority.[30] The name "E. Trump & Son" appeared in advertising by 1924.[39] The company was incorporated in 1927.[40]

 
Ku Klux Klan members being confronted by police in Queens on Memorial Day 1927

1927 arrest Edit

On Memorial Day in 1927, over a thousand Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members marched in a Queens parade to protest "Native-born Protestant Americans" being "assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City".[41] The 21-year old Trump and six other men were arrested.[42][9] All seven were referred to as "berobed marchers" in the Long Island Daily Press.[42] Trump, detained "on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so", was dismissed.[41][43] Among the men arrested on the same charge was a bystander who had had his foot run over by a police car. According to the police, the five remaining men were certainly Klan members.[44] Multiple newspaper articles on the incident list Trump's address (in Jamaica, Queens),[42][43] which he is recorded as living at on various documents from 1928 to 1940.[41][42][45][46][d] Despite this arrest, there is no conclusive evidence that Trump was a member or supporter of the KKK.[47]

Rise to success Edit

 
Trump c. 1940

In 1933, Trump built one of New York City's first modern supermarkets, called Trump Market, in Woodhaven, Queens. It was modeled on Long Island's King Kullen, a self-service supermarket chain. Trump's store advertised "Serve Yourself and Save!" and quickly became popular. After six months, Trump sold it to King Kullen.[37][48]

In 1934, Trump and a partner acquired in federal court the mortgage-servicing subsidiary of Brooklyn's J. Lehrenkrauss Corporation,[49] which had gone bankrupt and subsequently been broken up. This gave Trump access to the titles of many properties nearing foreclosure, which he bought at low cost and sold at a profit. This and similar real-estate ventures quickly brought him fame as one of New York City's most successful businessmen.[50][29]

Trump made use of loan subsidies created by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) not long after the program was initiated via the National Housing Act of 1934,[24] which also enabled the discriminatory practice of redlining.[51] By 1936, Trump had 400 workers[i] digging foundations for houses that would be sold at prices ranging from $3,000 to $6,250.[52] Trump used his father's psychological tactic of listing properties at prices ending in "... 9.99".[24] In the late 1930s, he used a boat to advertise off Coney Island's shore; it played patriotic music and floated out swordfish-shaped balloons which could be redeemed for $25 or $250 towards one of his properties.[24] In 1938, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle referred to Trump as "the Henry Ford of the home building industry".[24][53] During this period, Trump predicted that he would profit from World War II.[50] By 1942, he had built 2,000 homes in Brooklyn using FHA funds.[54]

During the war, the federal Office of Production Management (established in 1941) allowed the use of FHA funding for defense housing in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, owing to the proximity of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Trump planned to build 700 houses there, which would have been both his and the state FHA office's biggest project to date, but following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States's declaration of war on Japan, the project was dissolved in favor of defense housing at the East Coast's naval nexus, Hampton Roads's Norfolk, Virginia, where Trump was already working on an apartment complex.[55] Congress added a provision to the National Housing Act generating mortgage insurance for defense apartments, through which Trump was allowed to own the properties he built for war workers. By 1944, he had constructed 1,360 wartime apartments, almost 10% of the total created in Norfolk.[55] He also built barracks and garden apartments for U.S. Navy personnel near major shipyards in Norfolk and Newport News, Virginia, as well as Chester, Pennsylvania.[25]

 
Trump c. 1950

Following the war, Trump expanded into middle-income housing for the families of returning veterans. From 1947 to 1949, he built Shore Haven in Bensonhurst, which included 32 six-story buildings and a shopping center, covering some 30 acres and procuring him $9 million in FHA funding.[56] In 1950, he built the 23-building Beach Haven Apartments over 40 acres near Coney Island, procuring him $16 million in FHA funds.[57] The total number of apartments included in these projects exceeded 2,700.[25][j]

Further enterprises Edit

In early 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and other federal leaders began denouncing real-estate profiteers. That June, The New York Times included Trump on a list of 35 city builders accused of profiteering from government contracts.[60] He and others were investigated by a U.S. Senate banking committee for windfall gains. Trump and his partner William Tomasello[k] were cited as examples of how profits were made by builders using the FHA.[66] The two paid $34,200 for a piece of land which they rented to their corporation for $76,960 annually in a 99-year lease, so that if the apartment they built on it ever defaulted, the FHA would owe them $1.924 million. Trump and Tomasello evidently obtained loans for $3.5 million more than Beach Haven Apartments had cost.[67][68] Trump argued that because he had not withdrawn the money, he had not literally pocketed the profits.[60][69] He further argued that due to rising costs, he would have had to invest more than the 10% of the mortgage loan not provided by the FHA, and therefore suffer a loss if he built under those conditions.[70]

In 1961, Trump donated $2,500 to the re-election campaign of New York mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr., helping him gain favor for the construction of Trump Village, a large apartment complex in Coney Island.[71] The project was constructed in 1963–64 for $70 million. It was one of Trump's biggest and last major projects,[37][72] and the only one to bear his name.[71] He built more than 27,000 low-income apartments and row houses in the New York area altogether.[l][25][73]

In 1966, Trump was again investigated for windfall profiteering, this time by New York State investigators. After Trump overestimated building costs sponsored by a state program, he profited $598,000 on equipment rentals in the construction of Trump Village, which was then spent on other projects. Under testimony on January 27, 1966, Trump said that he had personally done nothing wrong and praised the success of his building project.[74] The commission called Trump "a pretty shrewd character" with a "talent for getting every ounce of profit out of his housing project", but no indictments were made. Instead, tighter administration protocols and accountability in the state's housing program were called for.[75]

 
Illustration of Steeplechase Park, with the Pavilion of Fun's "Funny Face" mascot in the middle of its facade

Steeplechase Park Edit

On July 1, 1965, Trump purchased Coney Island's recently closed Steeplechase Park for $2.3 million, intending to build luxury apartments.[76][77][78] The next year, he announced plans for a 160-foot-high (49-meter) enclosed dome with recreational facilities and a convention center.[79] At a highly publicized ceremony in September 1966, Trump demolished the park's Pavilion of Fun, a large glass-enclosed amusement center.[80][81] He reportedly sold bricks to ceremony guests to smash the remaining glass panels, which included an iconic representation of the park's mascot, the "Funny Face".[82][83][84] The next month, New York City announced plans to acquire the former park grounds for recreational use.[85] Trump filed a series of court cases related to the proposed rezoning, ultimately winning $1.3 million.[78] After the site laid vacant for several years, Trump started subleasing it to a manager of fairground amusement park rides.[80][78] Over another decade, the city eventually succeeded in reclaiming the property.[86][87][88]

In July 2016, the Coney Island History Project held a special exhibit for the "50th Anniversary of Fred Trump's Demolition of Steeplechase Pavilion".[89]

Son becomes company president Edit

See also: § Wealth and death, and The Trump Organization § Valuation disputes
 
Fred and his son Donald at Central Park's Wollman Ice Rink (c. 1986), which was renovated by their company between 1980 and 1986

Fred's son, Donald, joined his father's real-estate business around 1968, initially working in Brooklyn,[90] and rising to become company president in 1971[91] (while Fred assumed the role of chairman).[92] Donald began calling the company the Trump Organization around 1973.[93][a] The younger Trump entered the real-estate business in Manhattan, while his father stuck primarily to Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.[30] Donald later said: "It was good for me. You know, being the son of somebody, it could have been competition to me. This way, I got Manhattan all to myself."[25] By most accounts, Fred himself had set the family's sights on Manhattan.[30][94][95] According to his granddaughter Mary L. Trump, Fred was "intimately involved in all aspects of Donald's early forays into the Manhattan market,"[96] and Louise Sunshine (vice president of the Trump Organization from 1973 to 1985) states that Fred was "behind [Donald] in every way, shape and form [including] financing of these developments".[97]

In the mid-1970s, Donald received loans from his father exceeding $14 million.[98] In 2015–16, during his campaign for U.S. president, Donald claimed that his father had given him "a small loan of a million dollars" which he used to build "a company that's worth more than $10 billion".[99][100] An October 2018 New York Times exposé on Fred and Donald Trump's finances revealed that Fred created 295 income streams for Donald and concludes that the latter "was a millionaire by age 8", receiving $413 million (adjusted for inflation; $483.6 million in 2023 currency)[101] from Fred's business empire over his lifetime, including over $60.7 million (unadjusted for inflation; $163.9 million in 2023 currency)[102] in loans, which were largely unreimbursed.[103][m]

According to Trump construction vice president Barbara Res, Fred seated business guests in an off-balance chair and advised Donald to arrange his office so that adversaries could be forced to face the sun.[105]

Federal civil rights lawsuit Edit

Minority applicants turned away from renting apartments complained to the New York City Commission on Human Rights and the Urban League, leading these groups to send test applicants to Trump-owned complexes in July 1972. They found that white people were offered apartments, while black people were generally turned away (by being told there were no vacancies);[n] according to the superintendent of Beach Haven Apartments, this was at the direction of his boss.[107] Both of the aforementioned advocacy organizations then raised the issue with the Justice Department.[92] In October 1973, the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Trump Organization (Fred Trump, chair, and Donald Trump, president) for infringing the Fair Housing Act of 1968.[92] In response, Trump attorney Roy Cohn countersued for $100 million in damages, accusing the DoJ of false accusations.[92][108]

Some three dozen former Trump employees were interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).[108] Some testified that they had no knowledge of any racial profiling practices, and that a small percentage of their apartments were rented to blacks or Puerto Ricans.[o] A former doorman testified that his supervisor had instructed him to tell prospective black tenants that the rent was double its actual amount.[109] Four landlords or rental agents confirmed that applications sent to the Trump organization's head office for approval were coded by the race of the applicant.[110] One former employee testified that a code – which he believed was used throughout the Brooklyn branch of the company – referred to "low lifes" such as "blacks, Puerto Ricans, apparent drug users, or any other type of undesirable applicant", and nine times out of ten it meant the applicant was black; blacks were also falsely told there were no vacancies.[108] A rental agent who had worked with the company for two weeks said that when he asked Fred Trump if he should rent to blacks, he was told that it was "absolutely against the law to discriminate",[111] but after asking again, he was instructed "not to rent to blacks", and was further advised to:[112]

get rid of the blacks that were in the building by telling them cheap housing was available for them at only $500 down payment, which Trump would offer to pay himself. Trump didn't tell me where this housing was located. He advised me not to rent to persons on welfare.

Meanwhile, Trump acquired up to 20% of Brooklyn's Starrett City, a large, federally subsidized housing complex which opened in 1974 with the stated desegregation goal of renting 70% of its units to white people and the rest to minorities.[113][114]

A consent decree between the DoJ and the Trump Organization was signed on June 10, 1975, with both sides claiming victory – the Trump Organization because the settlement did not require them "to accept persons on welfare as tenants", and the head of DoJ's housing division for the decree being "one of the most far-reaching ever negotiated".[92][110] It personally and corporately prohibited the Trumps from "discriminating against any person in the ... sale or rental of a dwelling", and "required Trump to advertise vacancies in minority papers [for two years], promote minorities to professional jobs, and list vacancies on a preferential basis".[110] Finally, it ordered the Trumps to "thoroughly acquaint themselves personally on a detailed basis with ... the Fair Housing Act of 1968".[92][115]

Later legal trespasses Edit

In 1975, tenants of two of Trump's Norfolk tower complexes held a monthlong rent strike due to rodent and insect infestations, as well as problems with water heating, air conditioning, and elevator service.[116] In early 1976, Trump was ordered by a county judge to correct code violations in a 504-unit property in Seat Pleasant, Maryland. According to the county's housing department investigator, violations included broken windows, dilapidated gutters, and missing fire extinguishers.[p] After a court date and a series of phone calls with Trump, he was invited to the property to meet with county officials in September 1976 and arrested on site.[118] Trump was released on $1,000 bail.[117]

In 1987, when Donald's loan debt to his father exceeded $11 million, Fred invested $15.5 million in Trump Palace Condominiums; in 1991, he sold these shares to his son for $10,000, thus appearing to evade millions of dollars in gift taxes by masking a hidden donation, and also benefiting from a legally questionable write-off.[103] In late 1990, when an $18.4 million bond payment for Atlantic City's Trump's Castle was due, Fred sent a bookkeeper to buy $3.5 million in casino chips, which were not used. Trump's Castle quickly made its bond payment. The state's Casino Control Commission found the transaction to constitute an illegal loan and fined the casino $65,000.[103][119][120]

In 1992, Fred and Donald set up a subsidiary company which each of Fred's living children owned a 20% stake in. As detailed in 2018 by The New York Times, the business entity had no apparent legitimate purpose and was evidently used to conduct tax fraud by funneling millions of dollars of Fred's wealth to his progeny without paying gift taxes. This was accomplished by billing Fred much more than the actual cost of maintenance work and goods such as boilers.[103][121]

Wealth and death Edit

In 1976, Trump set up trust funds of $1 million ($5.3 million in 2023 currency)[122] for each of his five children and three grandchildren, which paid out yearly dividends.[100] Trump appeared on the initial Forbes 400 list of richest Americans in 1982 with an estimated $200 million fortune split with his son Donald.[123] That same year, Fred sold two Norfolk towers and some Hampton Roads military housing, the latter for $8–9 million, with perhaps $6.6 million pledged in promissory notes (which were apparently outstanding as of 2019). In 1998, a year before Fred's death, while he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and his son Robert had power of attorney, the notes were transferred to limited liability companies connected to Trump Organization subsidiaries.[116]

In December 1990, Donald Trump sought to amend his father's will, which according to Fred's daughter Maryanne Trump Barry, "was basically taking the whole estate and giving it to Donald", allowing him to "sell, do anything he wants ... with the properties".[124] The Washington Post wrote that this "was designed to protect Donald Trump's inheritance from efforts to seize it by creditors and Ivana", whom he divorced that month.[124] Fred rejected the proposal, and in 1991, composed his own final will, which made Donald, Maryanne, and Robert Trump co-executors of his estate.[125][126] Trump's lawyer noted that Fred Jr.'s children, Fred III and Mary L. Trump, would be treated unequally because they would not receive their deceased father's share, and wrote to Trump that "Given the size of your estate, this is tantamount to disinheriting them. You may wish to increase their participation in your estate to avoid ill will in the future."[125][q] In October 1991, Trump was diagnosed with "mild senile dementia", displaying symptoms such as forgetfulness.[124]

Trump began to suffer from Alzheimer's disease by 1993,[25] by which time the anticipated shares of Trump's estate amounted to $35 million for each surviving child.[100][129][r] Most of Fred's buildings were transferred to two grantor-retained annuity trusts under his and his wife's names, which were used to give about two-thirds of the assets to their four surviving children, who bought the remaining third via annuity payments between 1995 and November 1997.[130][103] The collective assets were valued at $41.4 million and in 2004 were sold for over 16 times this value, avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars in gift taxes.[103]

Trump finally fell ill with pneumonia in mid-1999.[25] He was admitted to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, where he died at age 93 on June 25.[131] His funeral was held at the Marble Collegiate Church,[131] and was attended by over 600 people.[132][s] His body was buried in a family plot at the Lutheran-Christian All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens.[135][t] Upon his death, Trump's estate was estimated by his family at $250 million to $300 million,[25] though he had only $1.9 million in cash.[138] His will divided over $20 million after taxes among his surviving children and grandchildren.[100][126] His widow, Mary, died over a year later on August 7, 2000, in New Hyde Park, New York, at age 88.[139] Her and Fred's combined estate was then valued at $51.8 million.[138]

Following Trump's death, Fred Jr.'s children contested their grandfather's will, citing his dementia and claiming that the will was "procured by fraud and undue influence" by Donald, Maryanne, and Robert Trump.[126][125] These three had claimed in their legal depositions that Fred Trump was "sharp as a tack" until just before his death,[140] with Donald specifically denying any knowledge of his father's mental decline, including his 1991 dementia diagnosis.[124] Barry later privately admitted that she knew her father had dementia at the time.[124] Mary L. Trump recounts that in later years her grandfather forgot people he had known for decades, including her, whom he referred to as "nice lady".[141]

In December 2003, it was reported that Trump's four surviving children would sell the apartments they acquired in 1997 to an investment group led by Rubin Schron, priced at $600 million;[142] the sale occurred in May 2004. The 2016 leak of Donald Trump's tax information from 2005, which showed an income of $153 million, prompted The New York Times to investigate, leading to the 2018 exposé.[121][u] The Times reported that the properties sold in 2004 were valued over 16 times their previously declared worth.[103] Fred and Mary reportedly provided their children with over $1 billion altogether, which should have been taxed at the rate of 55% for gifts and inheritances (over $550 million), but records show that a total of only $52.2 million (about 5%) was paid.[103] According to New York State law, individuals can be prosecuted on the basis of intentional tax evasion if a fraudulent return form can be produced as evidence; the statute of limitations does not apply in such cases.[144]

Personal life Edit

See also: Trump family
 
Trump c. 1941

Trump met his future wife, Mary Anne MacLeod, an immigrant from Tong, Lewis, Scotland, at a dance party in the early to mid-1930s.[145][50] Trump told his mother the same evening that he had met his future wife.[146] Trump, a Lutheran, married Mary, a Presbyterian, on January 11, 1936,[146] at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church with George Arthur Buttrick officiating.[147] A wedding reception was held at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan, and they had a single-night honeymoon in Atlantic City.[145] The couple settled in Jamaica, Queens,[148] and had five children: Maryanne Trump Barry (born 1937; a federal judge until her retirement),[149] Fred Trump Jr. (1938–1981; an airline pilot with Trans World Airlines),[150] Elizabeth Trump Grau (born 1942; a retired executive of Chase Manhattan Bank),[151] Donald Trump (born 1946; the 45th U.S. president), and Robert Trump (1948–2020;[152] a top executive of his father's property management company until his retirement).[153][154]

Trump was a teetotaler[v] and an authoritarian parent, maintaining curfews and forbidding cursing, lipstick, and snacking between meals.[106][155] At the end of his day, Trump would receive a report from Mary on the children's actions and, if necessary, decide upon disciplinary actions.[155] He took his children to building sites to collect empty bottles to return for the deposits.[156] The boys had paper routes, and when weather conditions were poor, their father would let them make their deliveries in a limousine.[156] According to Fred Jr.'s daughter, Mary L. Trump, Fred Sr. wanted his oldest son to be "invulnerable" in personality so he could take over the family business, but Fred Jr. was the opposite.[157] Trump instead elevated Donald to become his business heir, teaching him to "be a killer", and telling him, "You are a king."[158][159] Mary L. Trump states that Fred Sr. "dismantled [Fred Jr.] by devaluing and degrading every aspect of his personality" and mocked him for his decision to become an airline pilot.[160] In 1981, Fred Jr. died at age 42 from complications due to his alcoholism.[161][162]

After Elizabeth's birth, and with the U.S. becoming more involved in World War II, Trump moved his family to Hampton Roads's Virginia Beach.[24][163] In 1944, as Trump's FHA funding lulled, they returned to Jamaica Estates, Queens, where Mary suffered a miscarriage.[164] By 1946, they were living in a five-bedroom Tudor-style house Trump built in Jamaica Estates,[165] and Trump purchased a neighboring half-acre lot,[164] where he built a 23-room, 9-bathroom home. The family moved in during 1950–1951, and Fred and Mary remained there until their deaths.[166][167][168][169] The couple was also given an apartment on the 63rd (in reality the 55th)[170] floor of their son Donald's Trump Tower (c. 1983), which they rarely used.[171]

Despite speaking in a German accent[172] and wearing a toothbrush mustache (which was made unfashionable by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler) c. 1940–1950,[58][7][8] from World War II until the 1980s, Trump concealed his German ancestry and aligned himself with Jewish causes. He denied that he spoke German and claimed he was of Swedish origin.[173][25] His contributions to Jewish charities (as early as 1941) led some to believe that he belonged to the Jewish faith.[173][b] In a 1973 interview with The New York Times, he claimed he was born in New Jersey.[30] These deceptions about his heritage were repeated in the 1980s by Donald Trump and the author of Donald's first biography.[174][175][176][e] During the 1980s, Trump became friends with future prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, who at the time was the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations.[177]

 
Trump photographed by Fred W. McDarrah (1978)

According to Donald Trump, while his mother was watching the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II on television, Fred said while pacing around, "For Christ's sake, Mary. Enough is enough, turn it off. They're all a bunch of con artists."[178]

Physical appearance Edit

Trump had blue eyes.[179] As a child, he had blond hair, which later darkened.[180][160] As an adult, he stood about six feet tall.[46][181] He employed both a slicked-back hairstyle and toothbrush mustache c. 1940–1950.[58][71] After Trump's death, journalist Philip Weiss wrote that Trump was a "vigorous and imposing man with a square chest and prominent cheekbones" and that it was said that "Fred would rise just a little on his toes" to look taller when taking pictures with Donald.[182] Dwight Garner wrote of Trump as photographed by Fred W. McDarrah: "With ... his acutely white teeth and his tuxedo, Fred Trump resembles a cut-rate magician who's wandered into the Sherry-Netherland."[183]

By 1989, Trump had surgery on the right side of his face (according to family biographer Harry Hurt III to remove a part of his mandible afflicted with bone cancer),[184][185] creating a conspicuous depression.[186][187] Around 1990, he began wearing a wig to hide his hair loss. He also colored his eyebrows and mustache, surprising family members when this produced red to magenta hues.[188][189] In 1991, he underwent a hip replacement at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery; afterwards, he reputedly endeavored to leave his recovery room wearing only boxer shorts.[185]

Philanthropy Edit

 
Trump (far left) and other realtors at a New York–Brooklyn Jewish charity fundraising dinner in 1941[173]

Fred and Mary Trump supported medical charities by donating buildings. After Mary received medical care at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, they donated the Trump Pavilion rehabilitation building;[25][139] Fred was also a trustee of the hospital.[190] The couple donated a two-building complex in Brooklyn as a home for "functionally retarded adults", a New Jersey building valued at $4.75 million to United Cerebral Palsy (which Donald took credit for),[191] and other buildings to the National Kidney Foundation.[25][139][w] Fred reportedly also supported the Long Island Jewish Hospital and Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery;[25] at the latter, he was a patient of orthopedist Philip D. Wilson Jr., the hospital's lead surgeon from 1972 to 1989.[192]

The Trumps were active in The Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts of America, and the Lighthouse for the Blind.[139] Fred supported the private Kew-Forest School,[25] where his children attended and he served on the board of directors.[193] Trump backed both Jewish and Israeli causes,[194] including Israel Bonds,[195] donating the land for the Beach Haven Jewish Center, a synagogue, in Flatbush, Brooklyn,[196] and serving as the treasurer of an Israel benefit concert featuring American easy-listening performers.[190]

Trump also developed ties with the Democratic Party in New York,[197] contributing to city politicians (including $2,500 to Mayor Wagner's 1961 campaign, enabling the construction of Trump Village).[71] Together with Donald in the 1980s, Fred provided over $350,000 to city politicians including Mayor Ed Koch, Council president Andrew Stein, Controller Harrison J. Goldin, and four of the five borough presidents.[4]

In October 2018, The New York Times reported in an exposé on Trump's financial records that they had found no evidence that he had made any significant financial contributions to charities.[103]

Prestige Edit

 
Protestant author and Trump associate Norman Vincent Peale (1966)

In the 1950s, Trump became an admirer of Protestant minister Norman Vincent Peale, whose businesslike approach to life and Christianity he admired.[198][199][x] Mary L. Trump states that "Fred wasn't a reader, but it was impossible not to know about Peale's wildly popular bestseller," The Power of Positive Thinking (1952).[199] Fred and family attended sermons by Peale at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church and in 1977, Peale officiated Donald's first wedding.[198]

In 1985, Fred was awarded the Horatio Alger Award (for "distinguished Americans"),[200] named for the 19th-century author of hundreds of rags-to-riches novels. Radio and television personality Art Linkletter introduced Trump at the ceremony, with Peale's wife (and previous award recipient), Ruth Peale, presenting him the award.[201] During his speech, Trump stated that the key to his success was enthusiasm for his work and that he "used to watch other successful people ... that did good and that did bad and ... followed the good qualities that they had". He then (apparently erroneously)[202] attributed to William Shakespeare the saying "Never follow an empty wagon because", pointing to his cranium, "nothing ever falls off". He went on to introduce his surviving nuclear family.[201]

By the late 1980s, Trump had been photographed with a number of American celebrities, including actor Jack Nicholson and boxers Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.[203][204][205]

Legacy Edit

See also: New York investigations of The Trump Organization
 
Singer Woody Guthrie (1943), a tenant of Trump's Beach Haven Apartments from 1950 to 1951

Folk singer Woody Guthrie was a tenant of Beach Haven Apartments from 1950 to 1951.[67][206] In his unrecorded song "Old Man Trump", he complains about the rent and accused Trump of stirring up racial hate "in the bloodpot of human hearts".[207][206] Similarly, in an unreleased version of "Ain't Got No Home", Guthrie states:[206][208]

Beach Haven is Trump's Tower
Where no Black folks come to roam
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!

Trump was indirectly claimed as a relative of Republican politician Fred J. Trump, a candidate in the 1956 Arizona gubernatorial election[209] and correspondent of Richard Nixon during his 1960 presidential campaign against John F. Kennedy.[210]

Jerome Tuccille's 1985 biography of Donald Trump repeats Fred's fabrication that he was born in New Jersey and erroneously states that his middle name was Charles (not Christ).[175] Donald's The Art of the Deal (1987) also alleges that Fred was born in New Jersey and further that he was the son of an immigrant from Sweden (not Germany).[174] The New York Post repeated the latter claim in its eulogy for Fred.[133] As U.S. president, Donald falsely stated at least three times that his father was born in Germany.[11][211] According to a 2021 book about Donald's last year as president, he once spoke disparagingly of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, stating, "I know the fucking krauts," and pointing to his father's portrait, continued, "I was raised by the biggest kraut of them all."[12] Kraut is an ethnic slur for a German (particularly a soldier of either world war).[13]

In his 1993 biography of Donald Trump, Harry Hurt III asserts that Fred was a philanderer, with his alleged Floridian affairs leading him to be known as the "King of Miami Beach". In 1989, he reputedly lectured Donald that he could "have a thousand mistresses" but not to get caught in a single specific extramarital affair.[212][213] Additionally, Hurt wrote that he overheard Fred Trump talking about Donald and his wife Marla Maples as they departed for a flight, saying, "I hope their plane crashes", because then "all my problems will be solved".[159]

During Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, his father's 1927 arrest at a KKK march resurfaced.[d] In mid-February 2017, a liberal Israeli newspaper asserted that both Donald Trump (who had called Fred his only 'hero') and Benjamin Netanyahu had inherited racism from their fathers, Trump against brown people and Netanyahu against Arabs.[214] Three days later, the FBI declassified 389 pages from its early 1970s investigation of alleged racial discrimination by the Trump Organization.[111] In his 2018 psychological profile of Donald, Justin A. Frank asserts that Fred was anti-Semitic.[215] In 2020, Mary L. Trump supported this claim and said Fred could have been sympathetic to the KKK.[6]

In May 2016, in an article about Donald Trump's pseudonyms, Fortune reported that his father had used the false name "Mr. Green" to anonymously inquire about property values.[216] In October 2016, in response to numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, the FBI released a small file it had on Fred; it includes a 1986 news article concerning political donations by Trump Management, an amply redacted 1991 memo implying the bureau received intel regarding ties to organized crime, and a background report on Trump Construction Corp.[4] In 2018, writing for New York magazine in response to the New York Times exposé, Jonathan Chait opined that many of Fred's contributions to Donald were by definition criminal in nature.[217]

In mid-2020, liberal political action committee MeidasTouch cited the "empty wagon" quote from Trump's Horatio Alger Association speech in arguing that Donald Trump both squandered the fortune he inherited from his father and the "booming economy" left to him by the Obama administration.[218][219] Mary L. Trump, in her 2020 book, Too Much and Never Enough, recounts "the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump's favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer's".[159] In the book, Mary, a clinical psychologist, diagnoses Fred as a high-functioning sociopath.[220]

Following Donald Trump's arrest in New York in 2023, some media outlets pointed out that his father had been arrested twice.[221]

In popular culture Edit

In the 2011 Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump, comedian Seth MacFarlane credited Donald's fortune to his father, mocking the former's "self-starter bullshit" and comparing their relationship to that of Jaden and Will Smith.[222]

In late 2016, writing for Esquire, Nell Scovell detailed her attempt to visit the Trump family grave, noting her surprise at an online photo of the headstone,[t] which depicts a "modest—and crowded—grave" given that it is for the family that produced Donald. Despite the cemetery's website listing the grave as one it would show "upon request", Scovell was told to return "after the election" and elusively jawboned by the cemetery's president, leading her to quip that the headstone could be embarrassingly located between those of two Adolphs.[223][224] A 2018 satirical piece in McSweeney's depicts someone who attempts to go back in time to kill a newly christened Hitler and encounters Fred, who is in a hospital room with his wife and the newborn Donald.[225]

Since 2018, Trump has been portrayed in various motion pictures.[y] For instance, in an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Fred Willard plays him as a ghost proud of taking his crimes to his grave but vexed at Donald's failures.[230] Invoking a photograph of the elderly Trump with mandibular damage,[184] Nylon.com opined that the 2018 New York Times exposé "led people to know, perhaps for the first time, what Fred Trump looks like—and it turns out he bears resemblance to no shortage of fictional villains".[231]

In 2019, American journalist and conspiracy theorist Wayne Madsen accused Fred of being a Nazi sympathizer on the basis of the German American Bund's presence in New York.[232] In mid-2020, fact-checking company Logically concluded that there was a lack of incontrovertible evidence linking Trump to the Nazis.[233] In January 2023, the American tabloid Globe claimed that family insiders and the FBI thought Trump supported Hitler.[234] Later that year, comedian Des Bishop invoked the link between the Great Depression and Hitler's rise to power – as well as Fred's alleged Nazism[z] – in cautioning that a potential future financial crisis could lead to Donald's re-election.[236]

Notes Edit

  1. ^ a b Previously, it had no single name but had been called the Fred (C.) Trump Organization[1][2] and operated subsidiaries such as Trump Management and Trump Construction Corp.[3][4]
  2. ^ a b Several fraternity brothers at the historically Jewish Sigma Alpha Mu claimed that fellow member Fred Jr. said his father was Jewish.[5] Somewhat contrarily, Fred Jr.'s daughter, Mary L. Trump, claimed her grandfather was "quite anti-Semitic".[6]
  3. ^ Trump also sported a toothbrush mustache as late as 1950,[7] by which time it had fallen out of fashion due to associations with Adolf Hitler.[8]
  4. ^ a b c In September 2015, Boing Boing reproduced the New York Times article about Fred's 1927 arrest specifying his address,[9] and his son Donald, then a candidate for U.S. president, told the Times, "that's where my grandmother lived and my father, early on." Then, when asked about the 1927 story, he denied that his father had ever lived there, and said the arrest "never happened", and, "There was nobody charged."[10]
  5. ^ a b As U.S. president, Donald stated at least three times that his father was born in Germany (instead of New York).[11] During his last year in office, while speaking of the German Chancellor, he reportedly said, "I was raised by the biggest kraut of them all,"[12] invoking an ethnic slur for a German, particularly a soldier of World War I or World War II.[13]
  6. ^ In her Trump family biography, Gwenda Blair draws on these accounts and additional interviews with Fred and his kin.[22] Blair only met Fred around the early 1990s, when she says he was "semi out of it".[23]
  7. ^ Other biographical sources limit Fred's construction-related coursework to the period after high school when he was also working in the field.[29][30][31][32]
  8. ^ Older newspaper sources say that Trump took his courses at the YMCA,[29][30] while later books name only Pratt Institute.[34][35] In her 21st-century biography, Blair says Trump took YMCA courses during high school and Pratt studies after.[36]
  9. ^ Blair notes that these were all white but of varying national origin.[52]
  10. ^ The same year, he authored an article advertising his apartments in the real-estate section of the Brooklyn Eagle,[58] which frequently featured him and his company.[59]
  11. ^ Tomasello, who had mafia ties,[61][62] owned 25% of Beach Haven Apartments and Trump described as "a brick contractor [and] an old-time property owner".[63] In addition to money, Trump may have worked with Tomasello to avoid problems with the mafia or unions.[61][62] From 1959–1961, Tomasello sued Trump in the New York Supreme Court as a stockholder of 25% of ten of Trump's corporations, as well as 14 subsidiaries and 4 sub-subsidiaries.[64][65]
  12. ^ Including Coney Island, Bensonhurst, Sheepshead Bay, Flatbush, and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, and Flushing and Jamaica Estates in Queens
  13. ^ When Donald Trump renovated the Grand Hyatt New York in the late 1970s, Fred provided $2 million to help repay the construction loan. He further assisted his son with a $35 million line of credit, a $30 million mortgage, and an additional corporate loan.[104]
  14. ^ Mary L. Trump wrote in 2020 that Fred called people of color who wished to rent from him "die Schwarze" ('the Black[s]').[106]
  15. ^ Trump personally requested that a lease agreement not be made unless the tenant had a monthly income four times the rent.[108][109] Former employees were asked whether Jewish applicants were shown preference; one former employee felt that such applicants "had an easier time of getting an apartment than anyone else".[108]
  16. ^ According to the vice president of the subsidiary company responsible for the property, it had recently seen an increase in low-income tenants.[117]
  17. ^ Fred Jr.'s children both received $200,000, the same amount given to each grandchild,[127] but were excluded from Mary Trump's will.[128]
  18. ^ Having taken heavy losses by this time, Donald asked his siblings to lend him $10 million from their shares, and soon asked for $20 million more.[129]
  19. ^ In his eulogy, Donald Trump promoted his own business success.[132] Other attendees included New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who spoke,[133][134] and Trump family biographer Gwenda Blair.[132]
  20. ^ a b As of 2014, the plot was located near the abrupt end of a uniquely maintained paved path.[136][137]
  21. ^ Sparked by the 2017 publication of Donald Trump's tax information from 2005, this drew from 2,200 pages of U.S. federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry's financial disclosure forms,[121] interviews with former Trump advisers and employees, and over 100,000 pages of tax returns and financial records from Trump businesses.[103] Mary L. Trump provided 19 boxes of these financial records.[143]
  22. ^ According to Timothy L. O'Brien's review of Too Much and Never Enough (2020) by Trump's granddaughter Mary L. Trump, "Fred Sr., a teetotaler, kept an elegant bar outfitted with everything but alcohol ... guarded" by a number of cigar store Indians.[106]
  23. ^ The New York Times reported that Trump's donation of one of his least profitable properties to the foundation was "one of the largest charitable donations he ever made", with a deduction proportional to its stated value, claimed in his 1992 tax return as $34 million.[103]
  24. ^ Peale was involved in various right-wing political groups, including a coalition of ministers and industrialists opposed to the New Deal and associated with the America First policy opposing U.S. entry into World War II. Peale was also an associate of Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.[198]
  25. ^ E.g., Trump is depicted in episodes of Our Cartoon President (2018–2020)[226] and a racist character apparently based on him appears in an episode of the 2019 television series Watchmen.[227][228] John Diehl plays him in a brief appearance the 2022 film Armageddon Time, based on director James Gray's recollection of him while attending Kew-Forest.[229]
  26. ^ Bishop cited the nativist America First foreign policy of the early 20th century (which had Nazi support and was revivified by Donald as part of his U.S. presidency)[235] as well as the 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.[236]

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fred, trump, this, article, about, donald, trump, father, father, frederick, trump, arizona, politician, politician, frederick, christ, trump, october, 1905, june, 1999, american, real, estate, developer, businessman, father, donald, trump, 45th, president, un. This article is about Donald Trump s father For Fred Trump s father see Frederick Trump For his son see Fred Trump Jr For the Arizona politician see Fred Trump politician Frederick Christ Trump Sr October 11 1905 June 25 1999 was an American real estate developer and businessman He was the father of Donald Trump the 45th president of the United States Fred TrumpTrump c 1986BornFrederick Christ Trump 1905 10 11 October 11 1905New York City U S DiedJune 25 1999 1999 06 25 aged 93 New Hyde Park New York U S Burial placeLutheran All Faiths Cemetery New York CityEducationPratt InstituteOccupationHead of The Trump OrganizationSpouseMary Anne MacLeod m 1936 wbr ChildrenMaryanneFred Jr ElizabethDonaldRobertParent s Frederick TrumpElizabeth Christ TrumpRelativesSee Trump familyAwardsHoratio Alger AwardBorn in the Bronx to German immigrants Fred began working in home construction and sales in the 1920s before heading the real estate business started by his parents later known as the Trump Organization a Utilizing federal aid Fred s company rose to success building and managing single family houses in Queens apartments for war workers on the East Coast during World War II and more than 27 000 apartments in New York City overall Trump was investigated for profiteering by a U S Senate committee in 1954 and again by New York State in 1966 Donald Trump became the president of his father s real estate business in 1971 and they were sued by the U S Justice Department s Civil Rights Division for violating the Fair Housing Act in 1973 in the case settlement the Trumps were ordered to take several measures to curb racial discrimination From World War II until the 1980s to avoid associations with Nazism Trump denied his German ancestry instead claiming Swedish heritage and supported Jewish causes b c During Donald Trump s 2016 presidential campaign reports of Fred s arrest at a 1927 Ku Klux Klan parade gained publicity d although there is no conclusive evidence that he supported the organization Additionally as president Donald repeatedly and falsely claimed that his father was born in Germany e Contradicting Donald Trump s campaign claim that he built a multi billion dollar company using a small loan of a million dollars from his father in 2018 The New York Times reported that Trump and his wife provided over 1 billion in 2018 currency to their progeny overall avoiding over 500 million in gift taxes e g in 1987 Trump bought 15 5 million in shares in Trump Palace Condominiums which he later sold to Donald for 10 000 in 1992 these two set up a subsidiary which was evidently used to funnel Fred s money to his surviving children shortly before his death Fred transferred the bulk of his apartment buildings to his children who several years later sold them for over 16 times their previously declared worth Contents 1 Early life and career 1 1 1927 arrest 1 2 Rise to success 2 Further enterprises 2 1 Steeplechase Park 2 2 Son becomes company president 2 3 Federal civil rights lawsuit 2 4 Later legal trespasses 3 Wealth and death 4 Personal life 4 1 Physical appearance 4 2 Philanthropy 5 Prestige 6 Legacy 6 1 In popular culture 7 Notes 8 References 8 1 Sources 9 External linksEarly life and career EditSee also Trump family nbsp Trump far left with his family c 1915Trump s father the German American Friedrich Trump amassed considerable wealth during the Klondike Gold Rush by running a restaurant and brothel for the miners Friedrich returned to Kallstadt in 1901 and by the next year met and married Elizabeth Christ 14 They moved to New York City where their first child Elizabeth was born in 1904 15 Later that year the family returned to Kallstadt 16 Fred was conceived in Bavaria where his parents wished to re establish residency but Friedrich was banished for dodging the draft 17 16 The family returned to New York on July 1 1905 and moved to the Bronx where Frederick Christ Trump was born on October 11 18 Fred s younger brother John G Trump was born in 1907 All three children were raised speaking German 19 In September 1908 the family moved to Woodhaven Queens 20 Many details of Trump s childhood come from autobiographical accounts and emphasize independence learning and especially hard work to the point of being somewhat fictionalized 21 f At the age of 10 Trump worked as a delivery boy for a butcher 24 About two years later his father died in the 1918 flu pandemic 25 From 1918 to 1923 Fred attended Richmond Hill High School in Queens 26 while working as a caddy curb whitewasher delivery boy and newspaper hawker 27 28 Meanwhile his mother continued the real estate business Frederick had begun Interested in becoming a builder Fred put up a garage for a neighbor and took night classes in carpentry and reading blueprints He also studied plumbing masonry and electrical wiring via correspondence courses 27 g After graduating in January 1923 Trump obtained full time work pulling lumber to construction sites 33 He continued his carpentry education and went on to be a carpenter s assistant h Trump s mother loaned him 800 to build his first house which he completed and sold in 1924 37 30 38 By 1926 Trump had built 20 homes in Queens selling some before they were finished to finance others 38 Elizabeth Trump held the business in her name because Fred had not reached the age of majority 30 The name E Trump amp Son appeared in advertising by 1924 39 The company was incorporated in 1927 40 nbsp Ku Klux Klan members being confronted by police in Queens on Memorial Day 19271927 arrest Edit On Memorial Day in 1927 over a thousand Ku Klux Klan KKK members marched in a Queens parade to protest Native born Protestant Americans being assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City 41 The 21 year old Trump and six other men were arrested 42 9 All seven were referred to as berobed marchers in the Long Island Daily Press 42 Trump detained on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so was dismissed 41 43 Among the men arrested on the same charge was a bystander who had had his foot run over by a police car According to the police the five remaining men were certainly Klan members 44 Multiple newspaper articles on the incident list Trump s address in Jamaica Queens 42 43 which he is recorded as living at on various documents from 1928 to 1940 41 42 45 46 d Despite this arrest there is no conclusive evidence that Trump was a member or supporter of the KKK 47 Rise to success Edit nbsp Trump c 1940In 1933 Trump built one of New York City s first modern supermarkets called Trump Market in Woodhaven Queens It was modeled on Long Island s King Kullen a self service supermarket chain Trump s store advertised Serve Yourself and Save and quickly became popular After six months Trump sold it to King Kullen 37 48 In 1934 Trump and a partner acquired in federal court the mortgage servicing subsidiary of Brooklyn s J Lehrenkrauss Corporation 49 which had gone bankrupt and subsequently been broken up This gave Trump access to the titles of many properties nearing foreclosure which he bought at low cost and sold at a profit This and similar real estate ventures quickly brought him fame as one of New York City s most successful businessmen 50 29 Trump made use of loan subsidies created by the Federal Housing Administration FHA not long after the program was initiated via the National Housing Act of 1934 24 which also enabled the discriminatory practice of redlining 51 By 1936 Trump had 400 workers i digging foundations for houses that would be sold at prices ranging from 3 000 to 6 250 52 Trump used his father s psychological tactic of listing properties at prices ending in 9 99 24 In the late 1930s he used a boat to advertise off Coney Island s shore it played patriotic music and floated out swordfish shaped balloons which could be redeemed for 25 or 250 towards one of his properties 24 In 1938 the Brooklyn Daily Eagle referred to Trump as the Henry Ford of the home building industry 24 53 During this period Trump predicted that he would profit from World War II 50 By 1942 he had built 2 000 homes in Brooklyn using FHA funds 54 During the war the federal Office of Production Management established in 1941 allowed the use of FHA funding for defense housing in Bensonhurst Brooklyn owing to the proximity of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Trump planned to build 700 houses there which would have been both his and the state FHA office s biggest project to date but following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States s declaration of war on Japan the project was dissolved in favor of defense housing at the East Coast s naval nexus Hampton Roads s Norfolk Virginia where Trump was already working on an apartment complex 55 Congress added a provision to the National Housing Act generating mortgage insurance for defense apartments through which Trump was allowed to own the properties he built for war workers By 1944 he had constructed 1 360 wartime apartments almost 10 of the total created in Norfolk 55 He also built barracks and garden apartments for U S Navy personnel near major shipyards in Norfolk and Newport News Virginia as well as Chester Pennsylvania 25 nbsp Trump c 1950Following the war Trump expanded into middle income housing for the families of returning veterans From 1947 to 1949 he built Shore Haven in Bensonhurst which included 32 six story buildings and a shopping center covering some 30 acres and procuring him 9 million in FHA funding 56 In 1950 he built the 23 building Beach Haven Apartments over 40 acres near Coney Island procuring him 16 million in FHA funds 57 The total number of apartments included in these projects exceeded 2 700 25 j Further enterprises EditIn early 1954 President Dwight D Eisenhower and other federal leaders began denouncing real estate profiteers That June The New York Times included Trump on a list of 35 city builders accused of profiteering from government contracts 60 He and others were investigated by a U S Senate banking committee for windfall gains Trump and his partner William Tomasello k were cited as examples of how profits were made by builders using the FHA 66 The two paid 34 200 for a piece of land which they rented to their corporation for 76 960 annually in a 99 year lease so that if the apartment they built on it ever defaulted the FHA would owe them 1 924 million Trump and Tomasello evidently obtained loans for 3 5 million more than Beach Haven Apartments had cost 67 68 Trump argued that because he had not withdrawn the money he had not literally pocketed the profits 60 69 He further argued that due to rising costs he would have had to invest more than the 10 of the mortgage loan not provided by the FHA and therefore suffer a loss if he built under those conditions 70 In 1961 Trump donated 2 500 to the re election campaign of New York mayor Robert F Wagner Jr helping him gain favor for the construction of Trump Village a large apartment complex in Coney Island 71 The project was constructed in 1963 64 for 70 million It was one of Trump s biggest and last major projects 37 72 and the only one to bear his name 71 He built more than 27 000 low income apartments and row houses in the New York area altogether l 25 73 In 1966 Trump was again investigated for windfall profiteering this time by New York State investigators After Trump overestimated building costs sponsored by a state program he profited 598 000 on equipment rentals in the construction of Trump Village which was then spent on other projects Under testimony on January 27 1966 Trump said that he had personally done nothing wrong and praised the success of his building project 74 The commission called Trump a pretty shrewd character with a talent for getting every ounce of profit out of his housing project but no indictments were made Instead tighter administration protocols and accountability in the state s housing program were called for 75 nbsp Illustration of Steeplechase Park with the Pavilion of Fun s Funny Face mascot in the middle of its facadeSteeplechase Park Edit On July 1 1965 Trump purchased Coney Island s recently closed Steeplechase Park for 2 3 million intending to build luxury apartments 76 77 78 The next year he announced plans for a 160 foot high 49 meter enclosed dome with recreational facilities and a convention center 79 At a highly publicized ceremony in September 1966 Trump demolished the park s Pavilion of Fun a large glass enclosed amusement center 80 81 He reportedly sold bricks to ceremony guests to smash the remaining glass panels which included an iconic representation of the park s mascot the Funny Face 82 83 84 The next month New York City announced plans to acquire the former park grounds for recreational use 85 Trump filed a series of court cases related to the proposed rezoning ultimately winning 1 3 million 78 After the site laid vacant for several years Trump started subleasing it to a manager of fairground amusement park rides 80 78 Over another decade the city eventually succeeded in reclaiming the property 86 87 88 In July 2016 the Coney Island History Project held a special exhibit for the 50th Anniversary of Fred Trump s Demolition of Steeplechase Pavilion 89 Son becomes company president Edit See also Wealth and death and The Trump Organization Valuation disputes nbsp Fred and his son Donald at Central Park s Wollman Ice Rink c 1986 which was renovated by their company between 1980 and 1986Fred s son Donald joined his father s real estate business around 1968 initially working in Brooklyn 90 and rising to become company president in 1971 91 while Fred assumed the role of chairman 92 Donald began calling the company the Trump Organization around 1973 93 a The younger Trump entered the real estate business in Manhattan while his father stuck primarily to Brooklyn Queens and Staten Island 30 Donald later said It was good for me You know being the son of somebody it could have been competition to me This way I got Manhattan all to myself 25 By most accounts Fred himself had set the family s sights on Manhattan 30 94 95 According to his granddaughter Mary L Trump Fred was intimately involved in all aspects of Donald s early forays into the Manhattan market 96 and Louise Sunshine vice president of the Trump Organization from 1973 to 1985 states that Fred was behind Donald in every way shape and form including financing of these developments 97 In the mid 1970s Donald received loans from his father exceeding 14 million 98 In 2015 16 during his campaign for U S president Donald claimed that his father had given him a small loan of a million dollars which he used to build a company that s worth more than 10 billion 99 100 An October 2018 New York Times expose on Fred and Donald Trump s finances revealed that Fred created 295 income streams for Donald and concludes that the latter was a millionaire by age 8 receiving 413 million adjusted for inflation 483 6 million in 2023 currency 101 from Fred s business empire over his lifetime including over 60 7 million unadjusted for inflation 163 9 million in 2023 currency 102 in loans which were largely unreimbursed 103 m According to Trump construction vice president Barbara Res Fred seated business guests in an off balance chair and advised Donald to arrange his office so that adversaries could be forced to face the sun 105 Federal civil rights lawsuit Edit Minority applicants turned away from renting apartments complained to the New York City Commission on Human Rights and the Urban League leading these groups to send test applicants to Trump owned complexes in July 1972 They found that white people were offered apartments while black people were generally turned away by being told there were no vacancies n according to the superintendent of Beach Haven Apartments this was at the direction of his boss 107 Both of the aforementioned advocacy organizations then raised the issue with the Justice Department 92 In October 1973 the Civil Rights Division of the U S Department of Justice DoJ filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Trump Organization Fred Trump chair and Donald Trump president for infringing the Fair Housing Act of 1968 92 In response Trump attorney Roy Cohn countersued for 100 million in damages accusing the DoJ of false accusations 92 108 Some three dozen former Trump employees were interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI 108 Some testified that they had no knowledge of any racial profiling practices and that a small percentage of their apartments were rented to blacks or Puerto Ricans o A former doorman testified that his supervisor had instructed him to tell prospective black tenants that the rent was double its actual amount 109 Four landlords or rental agents confirmed that applications sent to the Trump organization s head office for approval were coded by the race of the applicant 110 One former employee testified that a code which he believed was used throughout the Brooklyn branch of the company referred to low lifes such as blacks Puerto Ricans apparent drug users or any other type of undesirable applicant and nine times out of ten it meant the applicant was black blacks were also falsely told there were no vacancies 108 A rental agent who had worked with the company for two weeks said that when he asked Fred Trump if he should rent to blacks he was told that it was absolutely against the law to discriminate 111 but after asking again he was instructed not to rent to blacks and was further advised to 112 get rid of the blacks that were in the building by telling them cheap housing was available for them at only 500 down payment which Trump would offer to pay himself Trump didn t tell me where this housing was located He advised me not to rent to persons on welfare Meanwhile Trump acquired up to 20 of Brooklyn s Starrett City a large federally subsidized housing complex which opened in 1974 with the stated desegregation goal of renting 70 of its units to white people and the rest to minorities 113 114 A consent decree between the DoJ and the Trump Organization was signed on June 10 1975 with both sides claiming victory the Trump Organization because the settlement did not require them to accept persons on welfare as tenants and the head of DoJ s housing division for the decree being one of the most far reaching ever negotiated 92 110 It personally and corporately prohibited the Trumps from discriminating against any person in the sale or rental of a dwelling and required Trump to advertise vacancies in minority papers for two years promote minorities to professional jobs and list vacancies on a preferential basis 110 Finally it ordered the Trumps to thoroughly acquaint themselves personally on a detailed basis with the Fair Housing Act of 1968 92 115 Later legal trespasses Edit In 1975 tenants of two of Trump s Norfolk tower complexes held a monthlong rent strike due to rodent and insect infestations as well as problems with water heating air conditioning and elevator service 116 In early 1976 Trump was ordered by a county judge to correct code violations in a 504 unit property in Seat Pleasant Maryland According to the county s housing department investigator violations included broken windows dilapidated gutters and missing fire extinguishers p After a court date and a series of phone calls with Trump he was invited to the property to meet with county officials in September 1976 and arrested on site 118 Trump was released on 1 000 bail 117 In 1987 when Donald s loan debt to his father exceeded 11 million Fred invested 15 5 million in Trump Palace Condominiums in 1991 he sold these shares to his son for 10 000 thus appearing to evade millions of dollars in gift taxes by masking a hidden donation and also benefiting from a legally questionable write off 103 In late 1990 when an 18 4 million bond payment for Atlantic City s Trump s Castle was due Fred sent a bookkeeper to buy 3 5 million in casino chips which were not used Trump s Castle quickly made its bond payment The state s Casino Control Commission found the transaction to constitute an illegal loan and fined the casino 65 000 103 119 120 In 1992 Fred and Donald set up a subsidiary company which each of Fred s living children owned a 20 stake in As detailed in 2018 by The New York Times the business entity had no apparent legitimate purpose and was evidently used to conduct tax fraud by funneling millions of dollars of Fred s wealth to his progeny without paying gift taxes This was accomplished by billing Fred much more than the actual cost of maintenance work and goods such as boilers 103 121 Wealth and death EditIn 1976 Trump set up trust funds of 1 million 5 3 million in 2023 currency 122 for each of his five children and three grandchildren which paid out yearly dividends 100 Trump appeared on the initial Forbes 400 list of richest Americans in 1982 with an estimated 200 million fortune split with his son Donald 123 That same year Fred sold two Norfolk towers and some Hampton Roads military housing the latter for 8 9 million with perhaps 6 6 million pledged in promissory notes which were apparently outstanding as of 2019 In 1998 a year before Fred s death while he was suffering from Alzheimer s disease and his son Robert had power of attorney the notes were transferred to limited liability companies connected to Trump Organization subsidiaries 116 In December 1990 Donald Trump sought to amend his father s will which according to Fred s daughter Maryanne Trump Barry was basically taking the whole estate and giving it to Donald allowing him to sell do anything he wants with the properties 124 The Washington Post wrote that this was designed to protect Donald Trump s inheritance from efforts to seize it by creditors and Ivana whom he divorced that month 124 Fred rejected the proposal and in 1991 composed his own final will which made Donald Maryanne and Robert Trump co executors of his estate 125 126 Trump s lawyer noted that Fred Jr s children Fred III and Mary L Trump would be treated unequally because they would not receive their deceased father s share and wrote to Trump that Given the size of your estate this is tantamount to disinheriting them You may wish to increase their participation in your estate to avoid ill will in the future 125 q In October 1991 Trump was diagnosed with mild senile dementia displaying symptoms such as forgetfulness 124 Trump began to suffer from Alzheimer s disease by 1993 25 by which time the anticipated shares of Trump s estate amounted to 35 million for each surviving child 100 129 r Most of Fred s buildings were transferred to two grantor retained annuity trusts under his and his wife s names which were used to give about two thirds of the assets to their four surviving children who bought the remaining third via annuity payments between 1995 and November 1997 130 103 The collective assets were valued at 41 4 million and in 2004 were sold for over 16 times this value avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars in gift taxes 103 Trump finally fell ill with pneumonia in mid 1999 25 He was admitted to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park where he died at age 93 on June 25 131 His funeral was held at the Marble Collegiate Church 131 and was attended by over 600 people 132 s His body was buried in a family plot at the Lutheran Christian All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village Queens 135 t Upon his death Trump s estate was estimated by his family at 250 million to 300 million 25 though he had only 1 9 million in cash 138 His will divided over 20 million after taxes among his surviving children and grandchildren 100 126 His widow Mary died over a year later on August 7 2000 in New Hyde Park New York at age 88 139 Her and Fred s combined estate was then valued at 51 8 million 138 Following Trump s death Fred Jr s children contested their grandfather s will citing his dementia and claiming that the will was procured by fraud and undue influence by Donald Maryanne and Robert Trump 126 125 These three had claimed in their legal depositions that Fred Trump was sharp as a tack until just before his death 140 with Donald specifically denying any knowledge of his father s mental decline including his 1991 dementia diagnosis 124 Barry later privately admitted that she knew her father had dementia at the time 124 Mary L Trump recounts that in later years her grandfather forgot people he had known for decades including her whom he referred to as nice lady 141 In December 2003 it was reported that Trump s four surviving children would sell the apartments they acquired in 1997 to an investment group led by Rubin Schron priced at 600 million 142 the sale occurred in May 2004 The 2016 leak of Donald Trump s tax information from 2005 which showed an income of 153 million prompted The New York Times to investigate leading to the 2018 expose 121 u The Times reported that the properties sold in 2004 were valued over 16 times their previously declared worth 103 Fred and Mary reportedly provided their children with over 1 billion altogether which should have been taxed at the rate of 55 for gifts and inheritances over 550 million but records show that a total of only 52 2 million about 5 was paid 103 According to New York State law individuals can be prosecuted on the basis of intentional tax evasion if a fraudulent return form can be produced as evidence the statute of limitations does not apply in such cases 144 Personal life EditSee also Trump family nbsp Trump c 1941Trump met his future wife Mary Anne MacLeod an immigrant from Tong Lewis Scotland at a dance party in the early to mid 1930s 145 50 Trump told his mother the same evening that he had met his future wife 146 Trump a Lutheran married Mary a Presbyterian on January 11 1936 146 at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church with George Arthur Buttrick officiating 147 A wedding reception was held at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan and they had a single night honeymoon in Atlantic City 145 The couple settled in Jamaica Queens 148 and had five children Maryanne Trump Barry born 1937 a federal judge until her retirement 149 Fred Trump Jr 1938 1981 an airline pilot with Trans World Airlines 150 Elizabeth Trump Grau born 1942 a retired executive of Chase Manhattan Bank 151 Donald Trump born 1946 the 45th U S president and Robert Trump 1948 2020 152 a top executive of his father s property management company until his retirement 153 154 Trump was a teetotaler v and an authoritarian parent maintaining curfews and forbidding cursing lipstick and snacking between meals 106 155 At the end of his day Trump would receive a report from Mary on the children s actions and if necessary decide upon disciplinary actions 155 He took his children to building sites to collect empty bottles to return for the deposits 156 The boys had paper routes and when weather conditions were poor their father would let them make their deliveries in a limousine 156 According to Fred Jr s daughter Mary L Trump Fred Sr wanted his oldest son to be invulnerable in personality so he could take over the family business but Fred Jr was the opposite 157 Trump instead elevated Donald to become his business heir teaching him to be a killer and telling him You are a king 158 159 Mary L Trump states that Fred Sr dismantled Fred Jr by devaluing and degrading every aspect of his personality and mocked him for his decision to become an airline pilot 160 In 1981 Fred Jr died at age 42 from complications due to his alcoholism 161 162 After Elizabeth s birth and with the U S becoming more involved in World War II Trump moved his family to Hampton Roads s Virginia Beach 24 163 In 1944 as Trump s FHA funding lulled they returned to Jamaica Estates Queens where Mary suffered a miscarriage 164 By 1946 they were living in a five bedroom Tudor style house Trump built in Jamaica Estates 165 and Trump purchased a neighboring half acre lot 164 where he built a 23 room 9 bathroom home The family moved in during 1950 1951 and Fred and Mary remained there until their deaths 166 167 168 169 The couple was also given an apartment on the 63rd in reality the 55th 170 floor of their son Donald s Trump Tower c 1983 which they rarely used 171 Despite speaking in a German accent 172 and wearing a toothbrush mustache which was made unfashionable by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler c 1940 1950 58 7 8 from World War II until the 1980s Trump concealed his German ancestry and aligned himself with Jewish causes He denied that he spoke German and claimed he was of Swedish origin 173 25 His contributions to Jewish charities as early as 1941 led some to believe that he belonged to the Jewish faith 173 b In a 1973 interview with The New York Times he claimed he was born in New Jersey 30 These deceptions about his heritage were repeated in the 1980s by Donald Trump and the author of Donald s first biography 174 175 176 e During the 1980s Trump became friends with future prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu who at the time was the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations 177 nbsp Trump photographed by Fred W McDarrah 1978 According to Donald Trump while his mother was watching the 1953 coronation of Elizabeth II on television Fred said while pacing around For Christ s sake Mary Enough is enough turn it off They re all a bunch of con artists 178 Physical appearance Edit Trump had blue eyes 179 As a child he had blond hair which later darkened 180 160 As an adult he stood about six feet tall 46 181 He employed both a slicked back hairstyle and toothbrush mustache c 1940 1950 58 71 After Trump s death journalist Philip Weiss wrote that Trump was a vigorous and imposing man with a square chest and prominent cheekbones and that it was said that Fred would rise just a little on his toes to look taller when taking pictures with Donald 182 Dwight Garner wrote of Trump as photographed by Fred W McDarrah With his acutely white teeth and his tuxedo Fred Trump resembles a cut rate magician who s wandered into the Sherry Netherland 183 By 1989 Trump had surgery on the right side of his face according to family biographer Harry Hurt III to remove a part of his mandible afflicted with bone cancer 184 185 creating a conspicuous depression 186 187 Around 1990 he began wearing a wig to hide his hair loss He also colored his eyebrows and mustache surprising family members when this produced red to magenta hues 188 189 In 1991 he underwent a hip replacement at Manhattan s Hospital for Special Surgery afterwards he reputedly endeavored to leave his recovery room wearing only boxer shorts 185 Philanthropy Edit nbsp Trump far left and other realtors at a New York Brooklyn Jewish charity fundraising dinner in 1941 173 Fred and Mary Trump supported medical charities by donating buildings After Mary received medical care at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center they donated the Trump Pavilion rehabilitation building 25 139 Fred was also a trustee of the hospital 190 The couple donated a two building complex in Brooklyn as a home for functionally retarded adults a New Jersey building valued at 4 75 million to United Cerebral Palsy which Donald took credit for 191 and other buildings to the National Kidney Foundation 25 139 w Fred reportedly also supported the Long Island Jewish Hospital and Manhattan s Hospital for Special Surgery 25 at the latter he was a patient of orthopedist Philip D Wilson Jr the hospital s lead surgeon from 1972 to 1989 192 The Trumps were active in The Salvation Army the Boy Scouts of America and the Lighthouse for the Blind 139 Fred supported the private Kew Forest School 25 where his children attended and he served on the board of directors 193 Trump backed both Jewish and Israeli causes 194 including Israel Bonds 195 donating the land for the Beach Haven Jewish Center a synagogue in Flatbush Brooklyn 196 and serving as the treasurer of an Israel benefit concert featuring American easy listening performers 190 Trump also developed ties with the Democratic Party in New York 197 contributing to city politicians including 2 500 to Mayor Wagner s 1961 campaign enabling the construction of Trump Village 71 Together with Donald in the 1980s Fred provided over 350 000 to city politicians including Mayor Ed Koch Council president Andrew Stein Controller Harrison J Goldin and four of the five borough presidents 4 In October 2018 The New York Times reported in an expose on Trump s financial records that they had found no evidence that he had made any significant financial contributions to charities 103 Prestige Edit nbsp Protestant author and Trump associate Norman Vincent Peale 1966 In the 1950s Trump became an admirer of Protestant minister Norman Vincent Peale whose businesslike approach to life and Christianity he admired 198 199 x Mary L Trump states that Fred wasn t a reader but it was impossible not to know about Peale s wildly popular bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking 1952 199 Fred and family attended sermons by Peale at Manhattan s Marble Collegiate Church and in 1977 Peale officiated Donald s first wedding 198 In 1985 Fred was awarded the Horatio Alger Award for distinguished Americans 200 named for the 19th century author of hundreds of rags to riches novels Radio and television personality Art Linkletter introduced Trump at the ceremony with Peale s wife and previous award recipient Ruth Peale presenting him the award 201 During his speech Trump stated that the key to his success was enthusiasm for his work and that he used to watch other successful people that did good and that did bad and followed the good qualities that they had He then apparently erroneously 202 attributed to William Shakespeare the saying Never follow an empty wagon because pointing to his cranium nothing ever falls off He went on to introduce his surviving nuclear family 201 By the late 1980s Trump had been photographed with a number of American celebrities including actor Jack Nicholson and boxers Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson 203 204 205 Legacy EditSee also New York investigations of The Trump Organization nbsp Singer Woody Guthrie 1943 a tenant of Trump s Beach Haven Apartments from 1950 to 1951Folk singer Woody Guthrie was a tenant of Beach Haven Apartments from 1950 to 1951 67 206 In his unrecorded song Old Man Trump he complains about the rent and accused Trump of stirring up racial hate in the bloodpot of human hearts 207 206 Similarly in an unreleased version of Ain t Got No Home Guthrie states 206 208 Beach Haven is Trump s Tower Where no Black folks come to roam No no Old Man Trump Old Beach Haven ain t my home Trump was indirectly claimed as a relative of Republican politician Fred J Trump a candidate in the 1956 Arizona gubernatorial election 209 and correspondent of Richard Nixon during his 1960 presidential campaign against John F Kennedy 210 Jerome Tuccille s 1985 biography of Donald Trump repeats Fred s fabrication that he was born in New Jersey and erroneously states that his middle name was Charles not Christ 175 Donald s The Art of the Deal 1987 also alleges that Fred was born in New Jersey and further that he was the son of an immigrant from Sweden not Germany 174 The New York Post repeated the latter claim in its eulogy for Fred 133 As U S president Donald falsely stated at least three times that his father was born in Germany 11 211 According to a 2021 book about Donald s last year as president he once spoke disparagingly of German Chancellor Angela Merkel stating I know the fucking krauts and pointing to his father s portrait continued I was raised by the biggest kraut of them all 12 Kraut is an ethnic slur for a German particularly a soldier of either world war 13 In his 1993 biography of Donald Trump Harry Hurt III asserts that Fred was a philanderer with his alleged Floridian affairs leading him to be known as the King of Miami Beach In 1989 he reputedly lectured Donald that he could have a thousand mistresses but not to get caught in a single specific extramarital affair 212 213 Additionally Hurt wrote that he overheard Fred Trump talking about Donald and his wife Marla Maples as they departed for a flight saying I hope their plane crashes because then all my problems will be solved 159 During Donald Trump s 2016 presidential campaign his father s 1927 arrest at a KKK march resurfaced d In mid February 2017 a liberal Israeli newspaper asserted that both Donald Trump who had called Fred his only hero and Benjamin Netanyahu had inherited racism from their fathers Trump against brown people and Netanyahu against Arabs 214 Three days later the FBI declassified 389 pages from its early 1970s investigation of alleged racial discrimination by the Trump Organization 111 In his 2018 psychological profile of Donald Justin A Frank asserts that Fred was anti Semitic 215 In 2020 Mary L Trump supported this claim and said Fred could have been sympathetic to the KKK 6 In May 2016 in an article about Donald Trump s pseudonyms Fortune reported that his father had used the false name Mr Green to anonymously inquire about property values 216 In October 2016 in response to numerous Freedom of Information Act requests the FBI released a small file it had on Fred it includes a 1986 news article concerning political donations by Trump Management an amply redacted 1991 memo implying the bureau received intel regarding ties to organized crime and a background report on Trump Construction Corp 4 In 2018 writing for New York magazine in response to the New York Times expose Jonathan Chait opined that many of Fred s contributions to Donald were by definition criminal in nature 217 In mid 2020 liberal political action committee MeidasTouch cited the empty wagon quote from Trump s Horatio Alger Association speech in arguing that Donald Trump both squandered the fortune he inherited from his father and the booming economy left to him by the Obama administration 218 219 Mary L Trump in her 2020 book Too Much and Never Enough recounts the appalling way Donald Fred Trump s favorite son dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer s 159 In the book Mary a clinical psychologist diagnoses Fred as a high functioning sociopath 220 Following Donald Trump s arrest in New York in 2023 some media outlets pointed out that his father had been arrested twice 221 In popular culture Edit In the 2011 Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump comedian Seth MacFarlane credited Donald s fortune to his father mocking the former s self starter bullshit and comparing their relationship to that of Jaden and Will Smith 222 In late 2016 writing for Esquire Nell Scovell detailed her attempt to visit the Trump family grave noting her surprise at an online photo of the headstone t which depicts a modest and crowded grave given that it is for the family that produced Donald Despite the cemetery s website listing the grave as one it would show upon request Scovell was told to return after the election and elusively jawboned by the cemetery s president leading her to quip that the headstone could be embarrassingly located between those of two Adolphs 223 224 A 2018 satirical piece in McSweeney s depicts someone who attempts to go back in time to kill a newly christened Hitler and encounters Fred who is in a hospital room with his wife and the newborn Donald 225 Since 2018 Trump has been portrayed in various motion pictures y For instance in an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live Fred Willard plays him as a ghost proud of taking his crimes to his grave but vexed at Donald s failures 230 Invoking a photograph of the elderly Trump with mandibular damage 184 Nylon com opined that the 2018 New York Times expose led people to know perhaps for the first time what Fred Trump looks like and it turns out he bears resemblance to no shortage of fictional villains 231 In 2019 American journalist and conspiracy theorist Wayne Madsen accused Fred of being a Nazi sympathizer on the basis of the German American Bund s presence in New York 232 In mid 2020 fact checking company Logically concluded that there was a lack of incontrovertible evidence linking Trump to the Nazis 233 In January 2023 the American tabloid Globe claimed that family insiders and the FBI thought Trump supported Hitler 234 Later that year comedian Des Bishop invoked the link between the Great Depression and Hitler s rise to power as well as Fred s alleged Nazism z in cautioning that a potential future financial crisis could lead to Donald s re election 236 Notes Edit a b Previously it had no single name but had been called the Fred C Trump Organization 1 2 and operated subsidiaries such as Trump Management and Trump Construction Corp 3 4 a b Several fraternity brothers at the historically Jewish Sigma Alpha Mu claimed that fellow member Fred Jr said his father was Jewish 5 Somewhat contrarily Fred Jr s daughter Mary L Trump claimed her grandfather was quite anti Semitic 6 Trump also sported a toothbrush mustache as late as 1950 7 by which time it had fallen out of fashion due to associations with Adolf Hitler 8 a b c In September 2015 Boing Boing reproduced the New York Times article about Fred s 1927 arrest specifying his address 9 and his son Donald then a candidate for U S president told the Times that s where my grandmother lived and my father early on Then when asked about the 1927 story he denied that his father had ever lived there and said the arrest never happened and There was nobody charged 10 a b As U S president Donald stated at least three times that his father was born in Germany instead of New York 11 During his last year in office while speaking of the German Chancellor he reportedly said I was raised by the biggest kraut of them all 12 invoking an ethnic slur for a German particularly a soldier of World War I or World War II 13 In her Trump family biography Gwenda Blair draws on these accounts and additional interviews with Fred and his kin 22 Blair only met Fred around the early 1990s when she says he was semi out of it 23 Other biographical sources limit Fred s construction related coursework to the period after high school when he was also working in the field 29 30 31 32 Older newspaper sources say that Trump took his courses at the YMCA 29 30 while later books name only Pratt Institute 34 35 In her 21st century biography Blair says Trump took YMCA courses during high school and Pratt studies after 36 Blair notes that these were all white but of varying national origin 52 The same year he authored an article advertising his apartments in the real estate section of the Brooklyn Eagle 58 which frequently featured him and his company 59 Tomasello who had mafia ties 61 62 owned 25 of Beach Haven Apartments and Trump described as a brick contractor and an old time property owner 63 In addition to money Trump may have worked with Tomasello to avoid problems with the mafia or unions 61 62 From 1959 1961 Tomasello sued Trump in the New York Supreme Court as a stockholder of 25 of ten of Trump s corporations as well as 14 subsidiaries and 4 sub subsidiaries 64 65 Including Coney Island Bensonhurst Sheepshead Bay Flatbush and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn and Flushing and Jamaica Estates in Queens When Donald Trump renovated the Grand Hyatt New York in the late 1970s Fred provided 2 million to help repay the construction loan He further assisted his son with a 35 million line of credit a 30 million mortgage and an additional corporate loan 104 Mary L Trump wrote in 2020 that Fred called people of color who wished to rent from him die Schwarze the Black s 106 Trump personally requested that a lease agreement not be made unless the tenant had a monthly income four times the rent 108 109 Former employees were asked whether Jewish applicants were shown preference one former employee felt that such applicants had an easier time of getting an apartment than anyone else 108 According to the vice president of the subsidiary company responsible for the property it had recently seen an increase in low income tenants 117 Fred Jr s children both received 200 000 the same amount given to each grandchild 127 but were excluded from Mary Trump s will 128 Having taken heavy losses by this time Donald asked his siblings to lend him 10 million from their shares and soon asked for 20 million more 129 In his eulogy Donald Trump promoted his own business success 132 Other attendees included New York mayor Rudy Giuliani who spoke 133 134 and Trump family biographer Gwenda Blair 132 a b As of 2014 the plot was located near the abrupt end of a uniquely maintained paved path 136 137 Sparked by the 2017 publication of Donald Trump s tax information from 2005 this drew from 2 200 pages of U S federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry s financial disclosure forms 121 interviews with former Trump advisers and employees and over 100 000 pages of tax returns and financial records from Trump businesses 103 Mary L Trump provided 19 boxes of these financial records 143 According to Timothy L O Brien s review of Too Much and Never Enough 2020 by Trump s granddaughter Mary L Trump Fred Sr a teetotaler kept an elegant bar outfitted with everything but alcohol guarded by a number of cigar store Indians 106 The New York Times reported that Trump s donation of one of his least profitable properties to the foundation was one of the largest charitable donations he ever made with a deduction proportional to its stated value claimed in his 1992 tax return as 34 million 103 Peale was involved in various right wing political groups including a coalition of ministers and industrialists opposed to the New Deal and associated with the America First policy opposing U S entry into World War II Peale was also an associate of Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan 198 E g Trump is depicted in episodes of Our Cartoon President 2018 2020 226 and a racist character apparently based on him appears in an episode of the 2019 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