The night of next Tuesday, November 5th, donald trump He can go to bed knowing that he will be the next president of the United States after beating him in a historic fight—still the polls and polls do not show a clear favorite between him and Kamala Harris—, reissuing what he already achieved in 2016, when the candidate republican entered the White House beating another woman in the key states, Hillary Clintonand inheriting the Oval Office from a democrat: back then it was Barack Obama; this Tuesday, Joe Biden.
Because inheriting is precisely something that has cemented the figure of who Donald John Trump is today, who was born in the neighborhood of Queens, in New York, on June 14, 1946—he is 78 years old—. Not only because of his acquaintance ‘Make America Great Again’, a motto that Ronald Reagan used in 1980, but because his entire history began, in a somewhat paradoxical and ironic way, with the immigration that he has rejected so much in his rallies and against which he has carried out so many policies and has promised to carry out again.
His paternal grandfather was Friedrich Drumpf, who would later change his surname to the more English Trump. Friedrich came into the world in 1869 in Kallstadt, a municipality in southwestern Germany, and, seeing better opportunities to prosper in life in the United States, he emigrated there at age 16. There he would obtain nationality in 1892, seven years after arriving, although in Kallstadt he had married Elisabeth Christ, Donald’s grandmother.
Friedrich would make his fortune in Alaska, where he opened a series of hotels and restaurants that would give his fortune to the couple’s three children. Among them, Fred Trump, the candidate’s father, who, to make matters worse, has another important member of his family as a migrant: his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born in Tong, on the Isle of Lewis, located in Scotland. She did not go to the United States until she was 18 years old, also looking for greater economic prosperity, although other sources claim that she was on vacation.
Be that as it may, Fred and Mary Anne, who worked as a domestic help, married in 1936 and had five children—the eldest child, Maryanne, is a federal judge on an appeals court—of whom The oldest of the men, Fred Jr., died at the age of 43, due to his alcoholism: He wanted to be an airplane pilot, but his father – and even his brothers, including Donald – blamed him and embarrassed him, causing him to fall into a depression that prevented him from fulfilling his dream and led him to commit suicide. The former president has always maintained that he is teetotal and that he does not try alcohol, drugs or tobacco precisely because of what he learned from this death.
Fred Trump, even so, was the architect of Donald having the fortune he has today, since it was his father who started the multimillion-dollar real estate business in the Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island districts of New York, although an investigation carried out by The New York Times found enough evidence to conclude that Fred had evaded a huge amount of money —several million dollars—, having to appear before the Senate in 1954.
Despite this, the fortune amassed by Fred would be the one that the now candidate would later establish with new acquisitions and businesses, such as Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago – where he resides – or several casinos, Although he was very close to bankruptcy on several occasions, the most notable being the one he experienced in the 90s, at the peak of his popularity, when he made cameos in films such as home alone 2, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sex and the City, Zoolander or, without a doubt, by starring The Apprentice.
In this reality on NBC, which shares its title with the recently released film about his life, Donald Trump acted as master of ceremonies before several contestants, all businessmen, who competed for a prize of $250,000 and a contract to run one of the magnate’s companies. The format, now without Trump, was also very popular outside North American borders, although the first seasons in the United States had an audience of between 10 and 20 million people.
Finally, we must talk about the descendants of the former president. His firstborn is named after him, Donald Trump Jr., born in 1977, the same year he married. with former Czech model and businesswoman Ivana Trump, who died at age 73 in 2022 after an accident on the stairs of his house. Donald Trump Jr., who is one of the best known for his support of his father and his business side, gave, along with his ex-wife, Vanessa Haydon, five grandchildren to the Republican candidate.
Donald and Ivana’s second daughter was Ivanka Trump, who at just turned 43 has three children with her husband, Jared Kushner, and who has been a presidential advisor to her father, although he also works in the world of business and fashion. Finally, the third child of this marriage is Eric Trump, 40 years old and with two children with Lara Yunaska, and also a businessman.
Donald had divorced Ivana amid rumors of infidelities, which brings us to the magnate’s fourth daughter, Tiffany Trump. His mother was Marla Maples, whom he married in 1993, the same year this young woman was born. who has preferred to maintain a lower profile than her brothers, focusing on her law studies and her partner, Michael Boulos, a Lebanese-American billionaire whom she married in 2022.
Finally, Barron Trump, the only child he has had with the Slovenian former model Melania Trumphis wife—he divorced Maples in 1999—since 2005. His private life has been kept away from the press through his mother, despite having spent most of his adolescence. in the White House. Now, at 18 years old—he blew out the candles in March—he has already entered the Stern School of Business, attached to New York University.
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