Donald Trump’s nephew has broken his decades-long silence as he has spilled intimate family secrets in a new tell-all memoir.
Fred Trump III, 61, launched a slew of allegations at his uncle in the book, ‘All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got this Way’ – including that Donald told him that his severely disabled son ‘should just die.’
The scandalous book also brands the former president as ‘evil’ for instigating a scheme to cut Fred III out of the family fortune by coaxing his mentally impaired grandfather Fred Sr into signing the paperwork.
Offering newfound details of the famous family’s dysfunction, Fred claims that ‘obnoxious’ young Donald was so disliked by other family members that his siblings used to throw mashed potatoes at him over the dinner table.
Fred Trump III, the former president’s nephew, claimed in a new tell-all memoir that Donald told him that his severely disabled son ‘should just die’
Fred launched a slew of allegations at his uncle in his upcoming book, ‘All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got this Way’
The memoir, which is out on Tuesday, comes despite Fred III previously slamming his sister Mary for writing a tell-all book in 2020, which also gave a deeply unflattering account of the former President.
Delving into the Trump family’s dysfunction, he writes that Tiffany Trump had a ‘painful’ childhood because of all the gossip surrounding her mother Marla Maples.
Maples and Trump became a tabloid favorite in the 1990s amid claims of infidelity, with Fred’s aunt Maryanne, a former federal judge, allegedly not a fan of her brother’s second wife.
Fred also writes that Maryannebecame enraged by his time in the White House.
In particular, he claims that Maryanne was so incensed with Donald’s immigration policies she once called them ‘abhorrent’ and uttered: ‘Can you believe the s*** he’s saying?’
Fred is the son of Donald’s older brother, Fred Trump Jr, or ‘Freddie’ as he was known, who died aged 42 in 1981 after a lifetime of alcohol addiction.
The book makes a number of allegations against Donald Trump, including that he coldly axed his niece and nephew form his father’s will and cut off their health insurance
‘All in the Family’ describes the Trumps’ privileged upbringing in Queens, New York, with his four siblings in frank terms.
Fred says that Donald ‘needed a lot of attention’ growing up and whenever he set up a toy in the basement nobody was allowed to touch it until he was done.
Then everyone was ‘summoned’ to see it and young Donald would say: ‘Isn’t that the greatest. Theee best!’
Donald began to take advantage of other people even as a boy, first by stealing other children’s toys and then throwing cake at a dress-up party, Fred writes.
He used to annoy his family so much that one time Freddie scooped some mashed potatoes out of the bowl and hurled them at Donald, hitting him squarely on his body.
Another time Freddie played a brutal prank on Donald by putting a snake in his bed even though he knew he was scared of them.
Freddie couldn’t stop laughing when Donald screamed and ran out of his room when he found the reptile, Fred writes.
Although he was sent to New York Military Academy aged 13 and was said to have ‘loved’ the rigorous nature of the school, Fred writes that Donald had one of the biggest scares of his life in 1969 when he faced the prospect of going to war.
It came as the selective draft was introduced for the Vietnam War, which Trump notoriously avoided by claiming to have ‘bone spurs‘.
Fred says that Donald ‘really didn’t want to go to Vietnam’ and one night the recent UPenn graduate was heard telling a friend: ‘It doesn’t make any sense. It isn’t what I’m focused on’.
Although Trump was sent to New York Military Academy, Fred claims he went to extreme lengths to avoid the Vietnam War and ‘lied’ about having bone spurs
Fred Sr. came up with a plan that involved a doctor who rented a space on the ground floor writing a note saying that Donald had painful bone spurs.
It was absolute nonsense, Fred writes, claiming that ‘no one in the family had heard of Donald’s bone spurs’.
‘No one had ever heard him complain. About other things, sure but not about bone spurs,’ the memoir alleges.
‘And hadn’t we all heard about his triumphs as captain of the New York Military Academy baseball team, where his extraordinary on-field talents got him scouted by the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies?’
Donald’s letter saved him until the Nixon administration brought in a draft lottery and once again his fate was in the balance.
Fred writes that during the TV broadcast announcing the draft, Donald was anxiously ‘pacing’ around and was ‘off in another world somewhere’.
But Donald got lucky again and his birthday wasn’t called.
After Donald’s real estate empire took off and he became a well-known socialite in New York City, his personal life became a hot topic for tabloid headlines.
In 1993, Donald’s decision to break up with his first wife Ivana amid an affair with Maples tore the family apart – with Fred claiming Maryanne scathingly said she was ‘not good enough’ to be with her brother.
Fred himself thought that Tiffany Trump, Donald’s daughter with Maples, had a hard time given the tabloid scrutiny on her mother and father.
He writes: ‘Imagine how Tiffany would feel? Imagine how painful it would be for their children to deal with it. Their infant daughter would grow up and learn about all of this gossip and hostility. I kept saying to myself: this needs to end’.
Fred wrote that he felt Donald’s public divorce from his second wife Marla Maples would have been ‘painful’ for their young daughter Tiffany
Fred thinks that it would have been ‘painful’ too for Donald’s three children with Ivana: Ivanka, Don Jr and Eric.
There had ‘never been a more public divorce’ than Ivana and Donald, including the infamous headline about Marla having the ‘best sex ever’ with the former President.
According to Fred, Maryanne gave Ivanka a tongue-lashing when she converted to Judaism and married Jared Kushner in 2009.
Even after speaking to her niece, Maryanne still ‘didn’t seem happy’ with the situation, despite the fact she had done something similar when she converted to Catholicism for her first husband.
Maryanne’s acid tongue extended to her brother, and even though Donald teased the idea of nominating her to the Supreme Court, she was said to have questioned whether he was ‘president material’ and considered some of his views ‘grotesque’.
When discussing his immigration policies, Maryanne once said they were ‘abhorrent’, Fred writes.
Among the other claims in the book is that Donald once used the N-word to describe the culprits behind a 2ft long gash in the soft top of his beloved Cadillac Eldorado convertible.
Fred also claims that during one conversation, Donald said that disabled people like Fred’s son William should ‘just die.’
Fred’s son was born with severe disabilities, and said he was stunned by his uncle’s alleged approach to disabled people after a White House meeting
With help from the Trump family, caring for Fred’s severely disabled son had cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, leading Fred to arrange a meeting with his uncle on the topic of disabled people’s healthcare.
Bringing Ivanka and Ben Carson, Trump’s then-secretary of housing and urban development, to the meeting, Fred said Trump ‘seemed engaged, especially when several people in our group spoke about the heart-wrenching and expensive efforts they’d made to care for their profoundly disabled family members.’
But after the meeting ended, Fred said he was stunned when Trump told him that ‘maybe those kinds of people should just die’, citing ‘the shape they’re in’ and ‘all the expenses’.
But perhaps the most bitter part of the book concerns Donald’s alleged plot to disinherit Fred and his sister Mary and canceling their health insurance when they fought back.
The battle related to the will signed by Fred Sr before his death in 1999 with an estate valued at around $300 million, based on his real estate business he had taken over from his German immigrant parents.
In the years leading up to Fred Sr’s death, Donald was in extreme financial distress after the collapse of his casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Facing potential ruin, Fred claims that Donald got his father, who was in his 80s, to amend his will so that rather than all his children getting an equal share, only children that survived him would split the pot evenly.
Given that Freddie was already dead, this meant cutting out Fred and Mary Trump: their share would go to Donald and his three siblings.
While Fred Sr did not have any formal diagnosis, Fred claims he was already having memory problems and was cognitively impaired. He would later be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease the year before his death in 1998.
All of this became public in 2000 when Fred and Mary challenged the arrangement at a court in Nassau County, Long Island.
In retaliation for refusing to go along with the plot, Fred was informed that the Trump health insurance would be terminated for him and his family including his baby William, who needed round-the-clock care costing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year due to severe disabilities.
Fred writes: ‘How could anybody do something so cruel to someone they were related to?
‘If this wasn’t evil, I really couldn’t say what might qualify’.
The book alleged that Trump’s sister Maryanne, a former federal judge, branded Marla Maples’s family ‘simpletons’ who were ‘not good enough’ for Donald
In the book, Fred points the finger at Donald for coming up with the plot and persuading his sister Maryanne and his brother Robert with ‘cunning and persistence’.
Fred writes: ‘He methodically manipulated his vulnerable father… Mary and I hadn’t done anything to deserve this.
‘We’d been loving grandchildren, always engaged in the life of the family. In a way it was not even personal, Donald’s self-interested decision to target us.
‘He needed money. His creditors were coming after him. We were collateral damage of his selfishness by typical scheme.’
Fred calls the plot a ‘cruel, low-down, vicious and heartless thing’ and a ‘money grab’ by his own family.
Fred and Mary eventually settled the case for far less than he would have gotten had Fred Sr’s will not been changed.
Looking back at his own voting record, Fed writes that he voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020, and he suspects Maryanne did the same.
Backing Democrats was the only choice for Fred, he writes, because for him ‘policy is thicker than blood’.
