“used to watch other successful people ... that did good and that did bad and ... followed the good qualities that they had”
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Fred Trump
Frederick Christ Trump was an American real estate developer and businessman. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, along with four other children.
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business · American real estate developer (1905–1999) · real estate developer · investor · entrepreneur · also Fred Trump, Fred Christ Trump, Frederick Trump, Frederick Christ Trump, Jr., Frederick Trump, Jr., Fred Christ Trump, Jr.
Born 11 October 1905 · Died 25 June 1999 · Q3752663
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2026· 3 entries
The Guardian: Trump threatens to declare strait of Hormuz ‘territory of the United States’
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Public attention spiked: 22,333 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.8× the usual 4,669, with 3 article edits. Editors noted: simplifying links WP:NOPIPE and WP:NOTBROKEN
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2024· 2 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Former President Donald Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times.”” Half True.
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Snopes rated the claim “Former President Donald Trump’s grandfather Friedrich unsuccessfully petitioned the government of Bavaria (now southeast Germany) not to deport him and his family.” True.
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2023· 3 entries
Currency) in loans, which were largely unreimbursed
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Some media outlets pointed out that his father had been arrested twice
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Currency) from Fred's business empire over his lifetime, including over $60
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2020· 1 entry
That the "brutal" Fred lacked emotional intelligence, which affected his sons
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2019· 5 entries
AP News rated the claim “Picture shows Mary and Fred Trump, wearing Ku Klux Klan robes, standing with son Donald Trump in 1999.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Mary and Fred Trump are pictured with son Donald in their KKK outfits.” False.
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Claimed: “Says his father, Fred Trump, was “born in a very wonderful place in Germany.”” — rated Pants on Fire by PolitiFact.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Fred Trump was arrested for “participating in KKK riot” in 1927.” Mostly False.
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The 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
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2018· 4 entries
Claimed: ““[I] came [to Cincinnati] a long time ago. I had a great success with my father. I was a young success... I worked here. I was here. I lived here. I mean, it was great.”” — rated Three Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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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
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Dollar value) to their children, avoiding over $500 million in gift taxes
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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
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2017· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, ran a mayoral campaign advertisement called 'Dope Man' in 1969.” False.
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2016· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Donald Trump's ancestors changed their surname from "Drumpf" to "Trump."” Mostly True.
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Snopes rated the claim “Donald Trump's father was arrested following a Ku Klux Klan-related altercation in 1927.” Mixture.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Donald Trump's father posing with Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong.” False.
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“I hope their plane crashes. Then all my problems will be solved.”
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2015· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Donald Trump's grandfather Frederick Trump was a pimp and drug dealer who made his fortune running a brothel and opium den.” Mostly False.
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2004· 2 entries
Were valued over 16 times their previously declared worth
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Were sold for over 16 times this value, avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars in gift taxes
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1999· 1 entry
Died 1999-06-25.
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1998· 1 entry
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
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1997· 1 entry
To an investment group led by Rubin Schron, priced at $600 million; the sale occurred in May 2004
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1993· 1 entry
The anticipated shares of Trump's estate amounted to $35 million for each surviving child
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1992· 2 entries
Fred and Donald set up a subsidiary which was used to funnel Fred's fortune to his progeny
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Fred and Donald set up a subsidiary company in which each of Fred's living children owned a 20% stake
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1991· 2 entries
Composed his own final will, which made his children Donald, Maryanne, and Robert Trump co-executors of his estate
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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
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1989· 1 entry
(while Donald was married to Ivana but tabloids had begun reporting about his affair with future wife Marla Maples), Fred reputedly lectured Donald that he could "have a thousand mistresses" but not to get caught in a si
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1987· 1 entry
When Donald's loan debt to his father exceeded $11 million, Fred invested $15
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1985· 1 entry
Fred was awarded the Horatio Alger Award (for "distinguished Americans")
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1982· 1 entry
With an estimated $200 million fortune split with his son Donald
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1976· 1 entry
Trump set up trust funds of $1 million ($5
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1975· 2 entries
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 mos
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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
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1974· 1 entry
With the stated desegregation goal of renting 70% of its units to white people and the rest to minorities
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1973· 1 entry
Wrongly stated that he was born in New Jersey; these deceptions were sustained in the 1980s by Donald Trump and the author of Donald's first biography
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1971· 1 entry
Donald became president of the company, with Fred becoming chairman
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1966· 2 entries
Trump said that he had personally done nothing wrong and praised the success of his building project
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Trump was again investigated for windfall profiteering, this time by New York State investigators
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1965· 1 entry
Trump purchased Coney Island's recently closed Steeplechase Park for $2
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1961· 1 entry
Trump donated $2,500 to the re-election campaign of New York mayor Robert F
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1950· 1 entry
Built the 23-building Beach Haven Apartments over 40 acres (16 ha) near Coney Island, procuring him $16 million in FHA funds
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1944· 1 entry
As Trump's FHA funding lulled, they returned to Jamaica Estates, Queens, where Mary suffered a miscarriage
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1938· 1 entry
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle referred to Trump as "the Henry Ford of the home building industry"
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1937· 1 entry
The couple settled in Jamaica, Queens, and had five children: Maryanne Trump Barry (1937–2023), Fred Trump Jr. (1938–1981; an airline pilot with Trans World Airlines), Elizabeth Trump Grau (born 1942; a retired executive of Chase Manhattan Bank), Donald Trump (born 1946), and Robert Trump (1948–2020; a top executive of his father's property management company until his retirement).
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1936· 1 entry
At the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church with George Arthur Buttrick officiating
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1934· 2 entries
Trump and a partner acquired the mortgage-servicing subsidiary of Brooklyn's J
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While arguing to a federal court why he should deserve to obtain a dissolved company's mortgage servicer and respective assets
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1933· 1 entry
Trump built one of New York City's first modern supermarkets, called Trump Market, in Woodhaven, Queens
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1928· 1 entry
Some newspaper articles on the incident list Trump's address (in Jamaica, Queens), which he is recorded as living at on various documents from 1928 to 1940.
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1927· 2 entries
Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan demonstration, although there is no conclusive evidence that he supported the organization
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But there is no conclusive evidence that he supported the organization
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1923· 1 entry
Studied at Richmond Hill High School (1918–1923).
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1905· 2 entries
Born 1905-10-11.
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And moved to the Bronx, where Frederick Christ Trump was born on October 11, 1905
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1901· 1 entry
And, by the next year, met and married Elizabeth Christ
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