We do know that JFK Jr. and Trump were friends.
While debunking this letter about Trump being president, Snopes also describes their relationship as authentic.
“JFK Jr. and Donald Trump did have a social relationship, as demonstrated by this meme’s utilizing a genuine photograph of the two attending a New York Knicks basketball game in March 1999. In fact, Michael Berman, one of Kennedy Jr.’s former business partners, said Kennedy once quipped that Trump, not himself, should run for president”
If all the past pics of Trump are to be taken at face value, he was pals with the Clintons (Weren’t they at Trump’s wedding?), Sharpton, Jesse Jackson (Whatever happened to him?), Schumer, Pelosi, numerous Hollywood types, etc. In short enough of that type to make me very wary of him in the run up to 2016. I am sure 90% of these “friends” were just after a check from him. Still, you know something of someone by their associates at least that’s what my parents always told me. Because of the way he governed 2016-2020 (He out-Reaganed Reagan!) he performed as much as he could the actions the country needed and got the needed results. I don’t do personality cults! I am enthusiastically for him in 2024.
The New York Times obit for Fred Trump appears on June 26th, 1999. I didn’t follow up to see if anything appears after.
JFK Jr. It would be possible to have “read” about Fred Trump’s death over the weekend and the letter written the following week, but it wouldn’t have been DATED the 19th of June or July. It certainly wouldn’t have taken more than 2 weeks for Trump to have “received” a condolence letter from a close friend, so the speculation that Larry was reading when Trump “received” the letter is ludicrous. It was clearly and “OOPS”, but I certainly wouldn’t look to Snopes to tell me that.