[msb-alumni] Robert Trump, Youngest Brother of the President, dies at 71 on August 15, 2020
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Michael Kranish.
Robert Trump, the younger brother of President Trump, died Saturday at 71 in
New York
City. The death was announced by the White House on Saturday night. He had been
hospitalized for several days after becoming seriously ill. No cause of death
was
given.
Robert Trump said in 2016 that he supported his brother's candidacy "one
thousand
percent. They were photographed embracing on election night. But after that,
Robert
Trump was little heard or seen in public until he put his name on a lawsuit
this
summer against his niece Mary L. Trump in a futile attempt to stop the
publication of
her book, which called Donald Trump "the world's most dangerous man."
The endorsement of his brother and the prolonged period of silence seemed
emblematic
of the younger Trump. He was the quiet one in comparison with his boisterous
brother.
He often did what his famous sibling asked him to do, absorbing the criticism
his
brother reportedly lobbed at him and remaining loyal.
"It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully
passed
away tonight," President Trump said in a statement Saturday night. "He was not
just
my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet
again.
His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in
peace."
Robert Trump was the youngest of five children of Fred Trump Sr. and his wife,
the
former Mary Anne MacLeod. The eldest son, Fred Jr., died of an
alcoholism-related
illness in 1981 at 42. It was Fred Jr. s daughter, Mary Trump, who this year
published a scathing memoir of her time in the family.
Robert Trump issued a statement in which he said he was "deeply disappointed"
by his
niece's decision to write the book. "I and the rest of my entire family are so
proud
of my wonderful brother, the president, and feel that Mary's actions are truly
a
disgrace," Robert Trump said in the statement. He did not speak publicly about
the
matter, continuing the near-silence he had maintained throughout the
presidency. A
court allowed the book to be published and let Mary give interviews about it.
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NEW YORK (AP) President Donald Trumps younger brother, Robert Trump, a
businessman
known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name,
died
Saturday night after being hospitalized in New York, the president said in a
statement. He was 71. The president visited his brother at a New York City
hospital
on Friday after White House officials said he had become seriously ill.
Officials did
not immediately release a cause of death. It is with heavy heart I share that
my
wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight, Donald Trump said in
a
statement. He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be
greatly
missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever.
Robert,
I love you. Rest in peace. The youngest of the Trump siblings had remained
close to
the 74-year-old president and, as recently as June, filed a lawsuit on behalf
of the
Trump family that unsuccessfully sought to stop publication of a tell-all book
by the
presidents niece, Mary. Robert Trump had reportedly been hospitalized in the
intensive care unit for several days that same month. Both longtime
businessmen,
Robert and Donald had strikingly different personalities. Donald Trump once
described
his younger brother as much quieter and easygoing than I am, and the only guy
in my
life whom I ever call honey. Robert Trump began his career on Wall Street
working in
corporate finance but later joined the family business, managing real estate
holdings
as a top executive in the Trump Organization. When he worked in the Trump
Organization, he was known as the nice Trump, Gwenda Blair, a Trump family
biographer, told The Associated Press. Robert was the one people would try to
get to
intervene if there was a problem. Robert Stewart Trump was born in 1948, the
youngest
of New York City real estate developer Fred Trump's five children. The
president, two
years older than Robert, admittedly bullied his brother in their younger years,
even
as he praised his loyalty and laid-back demeanor. I think it must be hard to
have me
for a brother but hes never said anything about it and were very close, Donald
Trump
wrote in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal. Robert gets along with almost
everyone, he added, which is great for me since I sometimes have to be the bad
guy.
In the 1980s, Donald Trump tapped Robert Trump to oversee an Atlantic City
casino
project, calling him the perfect fit for the job. When it cannibalized his
other
casinos, though, he pointed the finger of blame at Robert, said Blair, author
of The
Trumps: Three Generations that Built an Empire. When the slot machines jammed
the
opening weekend at the Taj Mahal, he very specifically and furiously denounced
Robert, and Robert walked out and never worked for his brother again, Blair
said. A
Boston University graduate, Robert Trump later managed the Brooklyn portion of
father
Fred Trump's real estate empire, which was eventually sold. Once a regular
boldface
name in Manhattans social pages, Robert Trump had kept a lower profile in
recent
years. He was not a newsmaker, Blair said. Before divorcing his first wife,
Blaine
Trump, more than a decade ago, Robert Trump had been active on Manhattans Upper
East
Side charity circuit. He avoided the limelight during his elder brother's
presidency,
having retired to the Hudson Valley. But he described himself as a big
supporter of
the White House run in a 2016 interview with the New York Post. I support
Donald one
thousand percent, Robert Trump said. In early March of 2020, he married his
longtime
girlfriend, Ann Marie Pallan. The eldest Trump sibling and Mary's father, Fred
Trump
Jr., struggled with alcoholism and died in 1981 at the age of 43. The
president's
surviving siblings include Elizabeth Trump Grau and Maryanne Trump Barry, a
retired
federal appeals judge. Authors Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher described Robert
Trump
as soft spoken but cerebral in Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the
45th
President: He lacked Donalds charismatic showmanship, and he was happy to leave
the
bravado to his brother, but he could show flashes of Trump temper.
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