The family of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 and owner of The Trump Organization, is a prominent American family active in real estate, entertainment, business, and politics. Trump, his wife

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, and son Barron were the first family of the United States for the duration of his presidency. Trump's paternal grandparents,

Frederick Trump Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump, ; March 14, 1869 – May 30, 1918) was a German-born American barber and businessman. He was the patriarch of the Trump family and the paternal grandfather of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the Unite ...

and

Elizabeth Christ Trump Elizabeth Christ Trump (born Elisabeth Christ; ; October 10, 1880 – June 6, 1966) was a German-American businesswoman and the paternal grandmother of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States. She married Frederick Trump in 1902. T ...

, had immigrated to the United States from Germany. Donald Trump's mother,

Mary Anne MacLeod Mary Anne Trump (; gd, Màiri Anna Nic Leòid ; May 10, 1912 – August 7, 2000) was a Scottish-American domestic worker. She was the wife of real-estate developer Fred Trump. The couple were the parents of Donald Trump, the 45th president of ...

, came from the

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, off the west coast of Scotland. Trump has five children from three wives, and 10 grandchildren.

Immediate family

Wives

Ivana Trump

Ivana Marie Trump (

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Zelníčková), the first wife of Donald Trump, was born on February 20, 1949, in Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). She was a fashion model and businesswoman who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1988. They were married from 1977 until 1992. Ivana Trump died at her home in New York City at age 73 on July 14, 2022. Ivana was a senior executive of The Trump Organization for seven years, including executive vice president for interior design. She led the interior design of Trump Tower with its signature pink marble. Ivana was appointed CEO and president of the

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and later became the manager of the

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in Manhattan. Ivana Trump was vice president of interior design for the company, leading the signature design of Trump Tower. Afterwards, her then-husband appointed her to head up the Trump Castle Hotel and Casino as president.

Marla Maples

Melania Trump

Melania Trump (née Knavs), the third wife of Donald Trump, was born on April 26, 1970, in Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia (present-day Slovenia). She had a lengthy modeling career and is the second foreign-born

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, the first being

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. They were married in 2005. Melania became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2006. She did not immediately move into the White House when her husband became president, but remained at Trump Tower with their son Barron until the end of the 2016–2017 school year. He and his mother moved to the White House on June 11, 2017.

Children

Trump has five children from three marriages: DonJr., Ivanka, and Eric Trump with Ivana Trump; Tiffany Trump with Marla Maples; and Barron Trump with Melania Trump.

First marriage

Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric are Trump's three eldest children, from his first marriage with Ivana Trump. Prior to the election, each of the siblings held the title of executive vice president at the Trump Organization. During the campaign, they served as surrogates for their father on national news programs. Following Trump's election victory, all three were named to the

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. Following the inauguration, DonaldJr. and Eric took charge of the family's real estate empire. Ivanka moved to Washington, D.C., with her husband Jared Kushner, who was appointed to a senior White House advisory position.

Second marriage

Tiffany Ariana Trump (born October 13, 1993) is Donald Trump's only child with Marla Maples. In 2016, she participated little in her father's campaign because she was studying sociology and

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at the University of Pennsylvania. Shortly after graduating, she made a supportive speech for her father at the

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at age 22.

Third marriage

= Barron Trump

Barron William Trump (born March 20, 2006) is Trump's youngest child and his only child with Melania Trump. In May 2006, Barron Trump was

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at the Episcopal Church of

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in Palm Beach, Florida. He attended the Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School in Manhattan. In addition to English, Barron is fluent in Slovene. Barron is known to be a fan of

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. He appeared in an

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jersey and met

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players at the

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in April 2017. In September 2017, he was selected to join the U-12 team for D.C. United's Development Academy for the 2017–2018 season. As of February 2019, Barron played with the Arlington Soccer Association. As of August 2021, he attended

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, a private college-preparatory high school in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Grandchildren

Donald Trump has 10 grandchildren.

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and his former wife

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had five children, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner three, and Eric Trump and his wife Lara two.

Ancestry

According to biographer

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, the family descended from an itinerant lawyer, Hanns Drumpf, who settled in Kallstadt, a village in the Palatinate, Germany, in 1608, and whose descendants changed their name from Drumpf to Trump during the Thirty Years' War of the early 17th century. The last name Trump is on record in

Kallstadt Kallstadt () is a village in the Palatine part of Rhineland-Palatinate, one of Germany's 16 federal states. It is part of the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region whose largest city is Mannheim, Germany's 22nd largest city. During much of the 19th ce ...

since the 18th century.Verein für Computergenealogie
Vorfahren von Friederich "Fritz" Trump
Journalist Kate Connolly, visiting Kallstadt, found several variations in spelling of the surname in the village archives, including Drumb, Tromb, Tromp, Trum, Trumpff, and Dromb. There are no indications that other spellings of the name, including Trumpf, could be related to the Trumps. Johannes Trump, born in the nearby village

Bobenheim am Berg Bobenheim am Berg is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography Location The municipality lies in ...

in 1789, had established himself by the early 1830s as a winegrower in Kallstadt where his grandson,

Friedrich Trump Friedrich may refer to: Names *Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich'' *Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich'' Other *Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...

, the grandfather of Donald Trump, was born in 1869. Several of his descendants also were vintners in Kallstadt, one of many villages in the famous wine-growing region of the Palatinate (''Pfalz''). Johannes Trump's sister Charlotte Louisa married Johann Georg Heinz. Their son Johann Heinrich (John Henry) Heinz (1811–1891), who emigrated to the United States in 1840, was the father of

Henry J. Heinz Henry John Heinz (October 11, 1844 – May 14, 1919) was an American entrepreneur of Palatine descent who, at the age of 25, co-founded a small horseradish concern in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. This business failed, but his second business exp ...

(1844–1919), founder of the

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company and Donald Trump's second cousin twice removed. This German heritage was long concealed by Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, who had grown up in a mainly German-speaking environment until he was ten years old; after World War II and until the 1980s, he told people he was of Swedish ancestry. Donald Trump repeated this version in ''The Art of the Deal'' (1987) but later said he is "proud" of his German heritage, and served as grand marshal of the 1999 German-American Steuben Parade in New York City. The Trump family in Germany were Lutheran. Donald Trump's parents attended

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, Queens, where Trump was confirmed in 1959.

Family tree

* Johann Paul Trump (1727–1792), married Maria Elisabetha Setzer ** Charlotte Louisa Trump (1789–1833), married Johann Georg Heinz *** John Henry Heinz (1811–1891), emigrated to the United States in 1840, married Anna Margaretha Schmidt (1822–1899), emigrated to the United States in 1840 ****

(1844–1919), founder of the

company ** Johannes Trump (1789–1835), married Susanna Maria Bechtloff *** Johannes Christian Trump (1829–1877), married Katharina Kober (1836–1922) ****

(1869–1918), barber, restaurant and hotel manager, married to Elisabeth Christ, moved to the United States in 1885/1905 ***** Elizabeth (Elisabeth) Trump (1904–1961), married William O. Walter ****** John Whitney Walter (1934–2018), referred to as the Trump "family historian", married Joan Walter ******* Christine Walter ******* Nancy Walter ***** Frederick Christ Trump (1905–1999), real estate developer, married Mary MacLeod (1912–2000) ****** Maryanne Trump (born 1937), federal judge, married/divorced David Desmond; married John Barry ******* David William Desmond married Lisa Aitken ****** Frederick Crist "Freddy" Trump Jr. (1938–1981),

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pilot, married/divorced Linda Clapp ******* Frederick Crist "Fritz" Trump III (born 1962) married Lisa Beth Lorant *******

Mary Lea Trump Mary Lea Trump (born May 3, 1965) is an American psychologist and author. A niece of former president Donald Trump, she has been critical of him as well as the rest of the Trump family. Her 2020 book about him and the family, ''Too Much and Nev ...

(born 1965), psychologist, author, married/divorced Dina Nowak ******** Avary Trump ****** Elizabeth Joan Trump (born 1942), married James Walter Grau ******* ******

Donald John Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...

(born 1946), real estate developer, 45th President of the United States, married/divorced

Ivana Zelníčková Ivana Marie Trump (, ; February 20, 1949 – July 14, 2022) was a Czech-American businesswoman, media personality, socialite, fashion designer, author, and model. Ivana lived in Canada in the 1970s before relocating to the United States and m ...

; married/divorced Marla Maples; married Melania Knauss ******* Donald John "Donny" Trump Jr. (born 1977; of first marriage), married/divorced Vanessa Haydon ******* Ivana Marie "Ivanka" Trump (born 1981; of first marriage), married Jared Kushner ******* Eric Trump (born 1984; of first marriage), married

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******* Tiffany Trump (born 1993; of second marriage) ******* Barron Trump (born 2006; of third marriage) ******

Robert Trump Robert Stewart Trump (August 26, 1948 – August 15, 2020) was an American businessman and investor. He was the younger brother of former U.S. President Donald Trump. Early life and education Robert Trump was born in Queens, New York City, on ...

(1948–2020), married/divorced Blaine Beard; married Ann Marie Pallan *****

John George Trump John George Trump (August 21, 1907 – February 21, 1985) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1936 to 1973, he was a recipient of the National Medal of Scie ...

(1907–1985), married Elora Sauerbrun (1913–1983) ******John Gordon Trump (1938–2012) ******Christine Trump Philp (1942–2021) ****** Karen Trump Ingraham

Parents

Fred Trump

Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump (1905–1999), born in New York, was a successful real estate developer in New York City. Using their inheritance, Fred Trump and his mother Elizabeth founded E. Trump & Son in 1927. The company grew to build and manage single-family houses in Queens, barracks and garden apartments for U.S. Navy personnel near major shipyards along the East Coast, and more than 27,000 apartments in New York City. Trump was investigated by a U.S. Senate committee for profiteering in 1954, and again by the State of New York in 1966. Donald Trump became the president of his father's real estate business in 1971, and renamed it the Trump Organization around 1973. That year, Donald and his father were sued by the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division for violating the

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. In the mid-1970s, Donald received loans from his father exceeding $14million (later claimed by Donald to have been only $1million). Donald served as the Trump Organization's chairman and president until assuming the office of

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Mary Anne MacLeod Trump

Born as Mary Anne MacLeod (1912–2000) in

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, a small village near

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, in the Western Isles of Scotland, she was a daughter of fisherman Malcolm MacLeod and Mary MacLeod (née Smith). At age 17, she immigrated to the United States with $50 (equivalent to $855 in 2022), and moved in with a sister before starting work as a

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in New York. Mary and Fred Trump met in New York and married in 1936, settling together in Queens. Mary became a U.S. citizen in 1942. While visiting Scotland in June 2008, Donald Trump said in part, "I think I do feel Scottish."

Grandparents

Frederick Trump

In 1885, Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump, emigrated from Kallstadt, Palatinate (then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria), to the United States at age 16. He anglicized his name to ''Frederick'' in 1892 when he became a U.S. citizen. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he amassed a fortune by opening a restaurant and hotel in

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and later Whitehorse, serving gold seekers on their way to the region; one biographer wrote that the business included a brothel, a portrayal Donald Trump has said was "totally false". On attempting to return, Frederick was exiled by Germany in 1905 for his lack of mandatory military service and not giving authorities notice before his 1885 departure; an appeal was denied. He died in the first wave of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. After his death, his fortune was passed on to his wife and son.

Elizabeth Christ Trump

Donald Trump's grandmother, Elizabeth Christ Trump, was born in 1880 and died on June 6, 1966. She married Frederick Trump in 1902 and moved to the United States with him. Like her husband, she was a native of Kallstadt, born as the daughter of Philipp and Marie Christ. Philipp Christ was descended from Johannes Christ (1626–1688/9) of Flörsheim, Hesse. Elizabeth Christ Trump was a descendant of organ builder Johann Michael Hartung (1708–1763) through her paternal grandmother Sabina Christ.

Siblings

Maryanne Trump Barry

Maryanne Barry Maryanne Trump Barry (born April 5, 1937) is an American attorney and a retired United States federal judge. She became an Assistant United States Attorney in 1974, and was first appointed to the United States District Court for the District of ...

(born 1937) is Donald Trump's eldest sister. She was a

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on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, became inactive in 2017 after her brother took office, and retired in 2019.

Fred Trump Jr.

Frederick "Freddy" TrumpJr. (1938–1981) was Donald Trump's older brother. On September 26, 1981, at the age of 42, he died from a heart attack.

Elizabeth Trump Grau

Elizabeth Trump Grau (born 1942) is an older sister of Donald Trump. In 1989, she married film producer James Grau. She worked as an administrative assistant for Chase Manhattan Bank, before retiring to Florida.

Robert Trump

(1948–2020) was Donald Trump's younger brother. He was a business executive who managed Trump Management Inc, the Trump Organization's real estate holdings outside Manhattan. He was an investor in SHiRT LLC, one of two owners of Virginia-based CertiPathx which was awarded a $33million government contract in 2019. Robert Trump married Blaine Beard in 1980. They were divorced in 2009 after Trump had left his wife for Trump Organization employee Ann Marie Pallan. He married Pallan in early 2020. Trump died on August 15, 2020, at the age of 71. According to ''The New York Times'', he had been having brain bleeds after a recent fall.

Other relatives

John G. Trump

Donald Trump's paternal uncle John George Trump (1907–1985) was an electrical engineer, inventor and physicist who developed rotational radiation therapy, and, together with

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, one of the first million-volt X-ray generators. He was a recipient of

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's National Medal of Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

John W. Walter

Trump's first cousin John W. Walter (1934–2018) was a son of father Fred's sister Elizabeth Trump and William Walter. He worked for the Trump Organization for most of his life and was executive vice president of Trump Management, Inc. He shared ownership of All County Building Supply & Maintenance Corp with Donald Trump, Maryanne Trump Barry, Elizabeth Trump Grau, and Robert Trump. Walter also served as the mayor of Flower Hill, New York between 1988 and 1996, and as its historian from 1996 until his death in 2018.

Mary L. Trump

Donald Trump's niece Mary L. Trump is a

clinical psychologist Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

, businessperson, and author who wrote a book about Donald Trump and the family titled ''

Too Much and Never Enough ''Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man'' is a tell-all book written by American psychologist Mary L. Trump about her uncle, former U.S. President Donald Trump, and his family. It was published by Simon ...

'' (2020).

References

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Works cited

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