Ivana Marie Trump (née Zelníčková), the first wife of Donald Trump, was born on February 20, 1949, inZlín,Czechoslovakia (nowCzech Republic). She was a fashion model and businesswoman who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1988.[2] They were married from 1977 until 1990.[3] Ivana died in 2022 ofblunt impact injuries to thetorso after falling down stairs at her home on theUpper East Side ofManhattan.[4][5]
Marla Ann Maples, the second wife of Donald Trump, was born on October 27, 1963, inCohutta, Georgia, U.S. She was an actress, television personality, model, singer and presenter. They married in December 1993, two months after the birth of their daughterTiffany, separated in 1997 and divorced in 1999.[12][13]
Melania Trump (née Knauss), the third and current wife of Donald Trump, was born on April 26, 1970, inNovo Mesto,Yugoslavia (nowSlovenia). She had a lengthy modeling career and is the second foreign-bornfirst lady of the United States, the first beingLouisa Adams.[14] They were married in 2005. Melania became a naturalized U.S. citizen on July 28, 2006.[15] She did not immediately move into theWhite House when her husband became president, but remained at Trump Tower with their sonBarron Trump until the end of the 2016–2017 school year.[16] Melania and her son moved to the White House on June 11, 2017.
Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric are Trump's three eldest children, from his first marriage withIvana Trump.[17]
Prior to the election, each of the siblings held the title of executive vice president atthe 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 thepresidential transition team.[18]
Following the inauguration, DonaldJr. and Eric took charge of the family's real estate empire. Ivanka moved to Washington, D.C., with her husbandJared Kushner, who was appointed to asenior White House advisory position.[19]
Trump was an apolitical figure during his father's presidencies, attracting media attention despite attempts by Melania to distance her son from politics. Following the end of his father's first term, he moved to Florida and graduated in May 2024 fromOxbridge Academy inWest Palm Beach. Trump was invited to become an at-large delegate for Florida at the2024 Republican National Convention,[28] but he declined.
Kallstadt, Germany, the Trump family's ancestral home
According to biographerGwenda Blair, the family descended from an itinerant lawyer, Hanns Drumpf, who settled inKallstadt, a village in theElectoral Palatinate of theHoly Roman Empire, in 1608, and whose descendants changed their name from Drumpf to Trump during theThirty Years' War (1618–1648).[31] The last name Trump is on record in Kallstadt since the 18th century.[32] 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.[33]
Pencil sketch of Johannes Trump (1789–1835)
Johannes Trump, born in the nearby village ofBobenheim am Berg in 1789, had established himself by the early 1830s as a winegrower in Kallstadt, which had then become part ofKingdom of Bavaria,[32] where his grandson,Friedrich Trump, 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 thePalatinate (Pfalz).[31] Johannes Trump's sister Charlotte Louisa married Johann Georg Heinz. They were grandparents ofHeinz company founderHenry J. Heinz (1844–1919).[34]
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;[35] afterWorld War II and until the 1980s, he told people he was of Swedish ancestry.[36] Donald Trump repeated this version inThe Art of the Deal (1987) but later said he is "proud" of his German heritage, and served asgrand marshal of the 1999German-American Steuben Parade inNew York City.[37][38]
Johann Paul Trump (1727–1792), married Maria Elisabetha Setzer[32]
Charlotte Louisa Trump (1789–1833), married Johann Georg Heinz
John Henry Heinz (1811–1891), immigrated to the United States in 1840, married Anna Margaretha Schmidt (1822–1899), emigrated to the United States in 1840[42]
Johannes Trump (1789–1835), married Susanna Maria Bechtloff
Johannes Christian Trump (1829–1877), married Katharina Kober (1836–1922)[44]
Friedrich Trump (1869–1918), barber, restaurant and hotel manager, immigrated to the United States in 1885/1905, and married toElisabeth Christ who herself immigrated to the United States in 1902.
Elizabeth (Elisabeth) Trump (1904–1961), married William Otto Walter
Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump (1905–1999), born in New York, was a successful real estate developer in New York City.[57][58] Using their inheritance, Fred Trump and his mother Elizabeth founded E. Trump & Son in 1927.[59] The company grew to build and manage single-family houses inQueens, barracks and garden apartments forU.S. Navy personnel near major shipyards along the East Coast, and more than 27,000 apartments in New York City.[60] Trump was investigated by aU.S. Senate committee forprofiteering in 1954,[61] and again by theState of New York in 1966.[62]
Donald Trump became the president of his father's real estate business in 1971, and renamed it the Trump Organization around 1973.[63] That year, Donald and his father were sued by theU.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division for violating theFair Housing Act.[64] In the mid-1970s, Donald received loans from his father exceeding $14million (later claimed by Donald to have been only $1million).[65] Donald served as the Trump Organization's chairman and president until assuming the office ofU.S. president.[66]
Born as Mary Anne MacLeod (1912–2000) inTong, a small village nearStornoway, in theWestern Isles of Scotland, she was a daughter of fisherman Malcolm MacLeod and Mary MacLeod (née Smith).[67] At age 17, she immigrated to the United States with $50 (equivalent to $916 in 2024), and moved in with a sister before starting work as amaid in New York.[67][68] Mary and Fred Trump met in New York and married in 1936, settling together inQueens. Mary became a U.S. citizen in 1942.[67][69] While visiting Scotland in June 2008, Donald Trump said in part, "I think I do feel Scottish."[37][38]
In 1885, Donald Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Trump, emigrated from Kallstadt, Palatinate (then part of theKingdom of Bavaria), to the United States at age 16. Heanglicized his name toFrederick in 1892 when he became a U.S. citizen.[57] During theKlondike Gold Rush, he amassed a fortune by opening a restaurant and hotel inBennett and laterWhitehorse, servinggold 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".[70] 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.[71] He died in the first wave of theSpanish flu pandemic in 1918. After his death, his fortune was passed on to his wife and son.
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 ofFlörsheim,Hesse. Elizabeth Christ Trump was a descendant of organ builderJohann Michael Hartung through her paternal grandmother Sabina Christ.[72]
Maryanne Trump Barry (1937–2023) was Donald Trump's eldest sister. She was a seniorfederal judge on theThird Circuit Court of Appeals,[73] became inactive in 2017 after her brother took office, and retired in 2019.[74]
Frederick "Freddy" Crist TrumpJr. (1938–1981)[75][76] was Donald Trump's older brother. On September 26, 1981,[76] at the age of 42, he died from a heart attack.[77]
Elizabeth Trump Grau
Elizabeth Joan Trump Grau (born 1942) is an older sister of Donald Trump.[78] In 1989, she married film producer James Grau.[79] She worked as an administrative assistant forChase Manhattan Bank,[79] before retiring to Florida.[80] She is the only living sibling of Donald Trump.[81]
Robert Stewart Trump (1948–2020) was Donald Trump's younger brother.[82] He was a business executive who managed Trump Management Inc, the Trump Organization's real estate holdings outside Manhattan.[83][84] He was an investor in SHiRT LLC, one of two owners of Virginia-based CertiPathx which was awarded a $33-million government contract in 2019.[85]
Robert Trump marriedBlaine Beard in 1980.[86] They were divorced in 2009 after he had left his wife for Trump Organization employee Ann Marie Pallan. He married Pallan in early 2020.[87] Robert died on August 15, 2020, at the age of 71.[88][89] According toThe New York Times, he had been havingbrain bleeds after a recent fall.[90]
Donald Trump's first cousin John W. Walter (1934–2018) was a son of father Fred's sister Elizabeth Trump and William Walter.[91][92] He worked for the Trump Organization for most of his life and was executive vice president of Trump Management, Inc.[93][91][94][95] He shared ownership of All County Building Supply & Maintenance Corp with Donald Trump, Maryanne Trump Barry, Elizabeth Trump Grau, and Robert Trump.[92][96] Walter also served as the mayor ofFlower Hill, New York, between 1988 and 1996, and as its historian from 1996 until his death in 2018.[97][98]
Donald Trump's niece, Mary L. Trump, is aclinical psychologist, businessperson, and author. She has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump, and wrote a book about him and the family titledToo Much and Never Enough (2020).
Donald Trump's nephew, Fred Trump III, is a businessperson, author, and advocate for people with disabilities. He criticized Donald Trump in a 2024memoir and has been a vocal critic of him since its publication.
Joseph E. Davies, third husband ofMarjorie Merriweather Post and a former U.S. ambassador ofWelsh origins, was granted a coat of arms, bearing themottoIntegritas, byBritish heraldic authorities in 1939. After Donald Trump purchasedMar-a-Lago, the Florida estate built by Merriweather Post, in 1985, the Trump Organization started using a modified version of Davies's coat of arms atTrump golf courses and estates across the country. It was also registered with the U.S. patent and trademark office.
Coat of arms of Donald Trump
Adopted
1985
Armiger
Donald Trump (1946–)
Crest
A Cubit Arm erected Argent, enfiling a Mascle and holding a Spear point upward, all Or.
Escutcheon
Argent ermined Or, two Chevronels couped between three demi-Lions, all Or.
In 2008, Trump attempted to establish the American logo at his newTrump International Golf Links inBalmedie, Scotland, but was warned by theLord Lyon King of Arms, the highest authority forScottish heraldry, that an act of the Scottish Parliament from 1672 disallows people using unregistered arms. In January 2012, shortly after the inauguration of the golf course, Trump unveiled the new coat of arms that had been granted to "The Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd" by the Lord Lyon in 2011.
Sarah Malone, executive vice-president of "The Trump International Golf Links, Scotland", said that "the coat of arms brings together visual elements that signify different aspects of the Trump family heritage [...], the Lion Rampant [in the crest] makes reference to Scotland and the stars to America. Three chevronels are used to denote the sky, sand dunes and sea – the essential components of the site, and the double-[headed] Eagle represents the dual nature and nationality of Trump's heritage (Scottish and German). The Eagle clutches golf balls making reference to the great name of golf, and the mottoNumquam Concedere is Latin for Never Give Up – Trump's philosophy."
Coat of arms of the Trump International Golf Links
Granted
2011
Armiger
Trump International Golf Links (2012–)
Crest
A demi-Lion rampant Gules, armed and langued Azure, holding in the paws a Pennon Or flowing to the sinister.
Escutcheon
Party per chevron: Azure two Mullets Argent; Vert a double headed Eagle of the second, wings displayed and inverted, armed and langued Gules, holding in its talons two Globes of the second; overall three chevronels Or.
^"New concerns function with Queens capital".The Daily Star. April 16, 1927. p. 16.E. Trump & Son Company, Inc., of Jamaica, has been formed with $50,000 capital to deal in realty.
^Kordes, John (March 29, 2018)."The Kordes Korner".Garden City News. Garden City, NY.Archived from the original on January 12, 2023. RetrievedMarch 1, 2023.
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