Posted on 07/31/2015 5:58:01 PM PDT by conservativejoy
Donald Trump remembers exactly when he realized his father was beginning to fade. About six years ago, they were driving down Fifth Avenue when he gave his father big news: he had just bought the land beneath the Empire State Building. ''That's a tall building, isn't it?'' Fred C. Trump replied. ''How many apartments are in that building?'' At first, Donald thought he was kidding. But his father, 87, was developing Alzheimer's.
Fred Trump died last June in Queens, at 93. Donald had visited him in the hospital that night and got the call later when he was by himself, high up in Trump Tower. He cried. It was the saddest day of his life, he says.
The son, now considering a run for the presidency, likes to present himself as a self-made man. But how much of him did his father make? Long before young Trump was putting up glass-and-bronze curtain walls on Fifth Avenue and selling apartments for $38 million, his father was putting bird cages in lobbies to dress up Queens apartment houses -- and releasing balloons on Coney Island at the height of summer with coupons inside for $50 off on a $4,990 Trump home.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This article, posted at the request of hoosiermama and Black Agnes, gives some very good insight into the Trump family. There is much more at the link.
Maybe this link is better.
I’m reluctant to go there - give that it’s from the slime, I’m sure sooner or later it will turn into a Trump bashing.
If it is from the times, you know it is slanted against Trump.
Actually from Sunday magazine section. Quite a good article
More antidotea and family biographical materials here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3319243/posts
Black Agnes. Found the best so far What a Wild West story in his ancestry. No wonder he’s so rough and tough !
What a beautiful story of a family....
Where values were taught, family life was learned, respect, love, hard work, no handouts from the government...oh to go back to those days...
I noticed that his father was born the same year my mother was born, in a little town in the Bingham Copper Mine in Utah called ‘Highland Boy’ where my grandmother met my grandfather...oh the memories...
What do we have today for memories?????
Riots, welfare, robberies, no thanks, I’ll keep my memories....
Check out the tabs particularly the next generation.
There is also a video tour of the Trump tower penthouse. Unbelievable elegant !
Spent in that part of the world BOY Great grandpa must been tough
Thanks, good article.
Some family history on the Trump folu you or
Some
Of your friends might find interesting linked to this thread. If you find more please add it here. Keyword is repositoryTrump
Thanks for finding it
What beautiful memories you have. I’ve never heard a town named such a lovely name, Highland Boy. That alone is something to treasure.
Thanks for sharing.
Bkmrk.
Check out the wiki of John Trump. His uncle. MIT electrical
Engineers. Genius
And his older sister Rosemary Barry federal judge. Her son is also outstanding.
Unlike family of other White House occupants this family HAS class!
Yes. A real western pioneer What a heritage !
It was a good glimpse of the man who raised Donald and the example he set. Very good article, not the least uncomplimentary of the Trump family.
We’ve been collecting articles on his family Please add any others you find to this thread Spent an entire afternoon just going through
The official Trump website. Great Information on each of the 3 older and pictures of his assets Just WOW!
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