Donald Trump Family Tree

hi this is Matt Baker today I'm going to show you the family tree of Donald Trump the 45th president of the United States we have done his family previously but since he's running for president again and is in the news a lot I thought it would be a good opportunity to update and expand his chart let's start with the surname Trump which is related to the words trumpet and drum these words in turn go back to the word triumph which in Roman times referred to a special type of Victory Parade for many years Donald Trump

claimed that his paternal ancestors came from Sweden in fact this is what he stated in his 1987 book The Art of the deal however we now know that his paternal ancestors actually came from Germany from a small town in Bavaria called Kat it was there that his great great-grandfather Johan Paul Trump lived interestingly y an Paul Trump is also an ancestor of the Hines family known for their famous ketchup you see Johan Paul's daughter Charlotte married a Hines and her son John immigrated to the US where his son Henry went on to found the Hines

ketchup company but we're more concerned with Johan Paul's son Johannes who had a son named Christian who married Katarina cober they were the parents of Fredick who at at the young age of 16 moved to the United States in order to escape military service in Germany he initially worked in New York as a barber but then in 1891 moved to Seattle which at the time was still a Frontier Town there he bought and ran a bar which also operated as a brothel several years later during the Klondike Gold Rush he moved up to the Yukon

where he continued to sell liquor and access to prostitutes becoming rich in the process then in 1901 he ended up back in his hometown in Germany which is where he met Elizabeth Christ they married the next year and initially moved to New York but then back to Bavaria where they decided to settle however when the Bavarian government found out that Friedrich had been a draft Dodger they banished him from the country so the couple had to settle in New York after all which is where their three children were born in New York friederick invested his

ill-gotten gains from out west into real estate but then in 1918 at the age of 49 he mysteriously dropped dead his family would later learn that he was one of the first cases of the Spanish Flu which went on to become the deadliest pandemic in history during the 1920s Elizabeth continued to run the family business under the name e Trump and then later e Trump and son that son being her eldest Fred Trump her other son John Trump instead went on to become a scientist at MIT I'll come back to John Trump a little later

for now I want to point out Betty Trump Fred and John's older sister she married a William Walter and had a son named John Walter who became the mayor of a small village on Long Island Fred however is the one that we're most interested in being that he was the father of Donald Trump once he turned 21 he basically took over the family business eventually marrying Mary and McLoud whose family I'll talk about a bit later but like both his father and his son Fred Trump is a controversial figure known for his questionable business practices

but before I get into it let me say upfront talking about the Trump family is difficult former president Donald Trump is by far one of the most controversial figures of our time just last week he was was found guilty in a New York Court on 34 felony charges reactions in the wake of this continue to be nothing short of polarizing this is why I asked ground news specifically to sponsor this video their platform combines all the world's news in one place so that you can compare coverage from across the political spectrum and verify that your

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but pretty soon it became clear to the US government that Trump was making too much money and was making it too quickly the feds investigated him twice and found out that basically what he would do is overestimate the cost of a project get Federal money for it and then use the profit for other Investments technically this wasn't illegal so he was never charged however he was later sued for racial discrimination for supposedly going out of his way to avoid renting to blacks and other minorities the folk singer Woody Guthrie even wrote a song about Fred

called Old Man Trump anyhow the case was eventually settled with Trump's company agreeing to better follow the Fair Housing Act okay let me now tell you about Donald Trump's mother and the McLoud side of the family they came from the outer herdes which are a group of Island that are a part of Scotland the earliest Trump ancestor that we have a photo of is his great grandfather Alexander McLoud son of a William McLoud he and his wife Annie were the parents of Malcolm McLoud who married Mary an Smith as you can see from the photos

they were simple folk who worked as tenant farmers in order to eek out a living they had 10 children the youngest of whom was Maryanne Maryanne Donald Trump's mother was born in Scotland and spoke gelic as her first language but at age 18 she immigrated to the US where a few years later she met and married Fred Trump together they had five children the Maryanne worked as a lawyer and then eventually became a judge in fact she was appointed by Bill Clinton to the US court of appeals which is just one step down from the

Supreme Court Donald's older brother Fred Jr was originally slated to take over the Trump business Empire but he opted to become a pilot instead he unfortunately also became an alcoholic and this contributed to his early death at age 42 he did however have two children Fred Trump III and Mary Trump because Fred Jr died before Fred senior these two children expected to receive their father's portion of the family wealth however they did not which led to a lawsuit at which point Donald Trump refused to help pay the medical bills for Fred III's son William who

was born with Cerebral paly the suit was eventually settled but the Bad Blood continued to to this day Mary is one of Donald Trump's most vocal critics having helped the New York Times with this article and having published the book too much and never enough how my family created the world's most dangerous man Mary also happens to be the only openly gay close relative of Donald Trump she and her ex-wife have one daughter together next up is Elizabeth Trump Donald's only sibling that is currently still living she generally stays out of the spotlight but we

do know that she's married to a James grow and that the couple has no children finally there's Donald's younger brother Robert who passed away in 2020 prior to this he mostly worked for the family business he married twice and had a stepson but no children of his own which brings us to Donald Trump himself the fourth child of Fred Senor and the person who led the family business from 1971 to 2017 changing it name to the Trump organization from 2017 to 2021 he then of course served as the President of the United States Trump has

been married three times his first wife being the late Ivana zelich kova a former model from the Czech Republic together they had three children Don Jr Ivanka and Eric while still married to Evana Trump had an affair with a young Beauty contestant named Mara Maples eventually he divorced Ivana and married Marlo with whom he had his fourth child Tiffany that marriage lasted just 3 years after which he started dating the Slovenian model Melania canaz who is 24 years his Junior they married in 2005 and have one son named Baron when Trump became president Melania became

first lady and is one of only two first ladies to have been born outside the United States let me now tell you about Trump's children currently Dawn Jr and Eric share the leadership of the Trump Organization for 13 years Don Jr was married to model Vanessa Hayden who prior to 911 had been dating a Saudi Prince together Don Jr and Vanessa have five children ranging in age from 17 to 10 take note that his oldest son is named Donald and is hence Donald Trump III currently Don J J is engaged to former Fox News host

Kimberly gilfoil who has been married twice before her first husband being Gavin Nome who is nowadays the governor of California take note that Kimberly is currently 55 which is one year older than her future mother-in-law Melania Trump one thing you may not know about Ivanka is that her legal name is actually Ivana just like her mother you see in Slavic languages Ivanka means something like like little Ivana anyhow she's married to Jared Kushner during Trump's presidency Jared served as senior adviser to the president and Ivanka as adviser this was seen as a conflict of interest

not only because they were close relatives of the president but also because they both had businesses that benefited from their roles Jared Kushner is the son of real estate developer Charles Kushner who served time in prison for tax evasion and witness tampering he in turn is the son of Holocaust Survivor Ray Kushner when she immigrated to the US her husband took her last name pretending to be her brother if that hadn't have happened ivanka's surname would now be burkowitz not Kushner because she married into a Jewish Family Ivanka converted to Judaism as well so that

her children would be born Jewish currently they have three children Arabella Joseph and Theo Eric is married to former TV producer Laura yunasa who is now the co-chair of the Republican National Committee they have two children aged seven and five take note that all of the photos that I've used for the Trump grandchildren were posted publicly on Instagram by their parents Tiffany Trump who is now 30 got married in 2022 her husband is Michael bulos the son of the Lebanese billionaire masan bulos who owns a major company in Nigeria finally there's Baron Trump who recently

graduated from high school and has sprouted to a remarkable height of 6'7 in and this is where I need to return to Donald Trump's Uncle John Trump you see there's a fun conspiracy theory that links John to Baron ever hear of Nicola Tesla well Nicola Tesla also tried to invent a time machine as far as we know he never succeeded but the key words are as far as we know what we do know is that when Tesla died in 1943 the person tasked with going through his lab and papers was none other than professor John

Trump we also know that in 1893 a book was published called Baron Trump's marvelous underground Journey this has led some to speculate that John Trump may have secretly discovered Tesla's time machine and that Baron just might be a time traveler okay that last bit is not meant to be taken seriously let me know in the comments what your prediction is for the upcoming election and don't forget to sign up for ground news by using the link in the description or pinned comment thanks for watching [Music] [Music]