Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was a German-American real estate developer and philanthropist, and the father of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, and Maryanne, a United States Court of Appeals judge...
1927 Klan riot arrest[edit]
On Memorial Day in 1927, the Ku Klux Klan marched in Queens to protest that "Native-born Protestant Americans" were being "assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City."[9] Fred Trump was one of seven men who were arrested that day "on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so."[9] One article on the riot, written in the Long Island Daily Press, said that all seven arrestees were wearing Klan attire....
...During the 1980s, Trump became friends with Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then working for the United Nations in Manhattan. In 1996, 2009, 2013 and 2015 he was elected as Prime Minister of Israel.[18]...
...Folk icon Woody Guthrie, who from 1950 was a tenant in one of Trump's apartment complexes in Brooklyn, criticized Trump as a landlord. He wrote lyrics that accused his landlord of stirring up racial hate "in the bloodpot of human hearts".[1]...
...In 1973, the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division filed a civil rights suit against the Trump Organization, charging that it refused to rent to black people. The Urban League had sent black and white testers to apply for apartments in Trump-owned complexes; the whites got the apartments, the blacks did not...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
On Memorial Day in 1927, the Ku Klux Klan marched in Queens to protest that "Native-born Protestant Americans" were being "assaulted by Roman Catholic police of New York City."[9] Fred Trump was one of seven men who were arrested that day "on a charge of refusing to disperse from a parade when ordered to do so."[9] One article on the riot, written in the Long Island Daily Press, said that all seven arrestees were wearing Klan attire....
...During the 1980s, Trump became friends with Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu, who was then working for the United Nations in Manhattan. In 1996, 2009, 2013 and 2015 he was elected as Prime Minister of Israel.[18]...
...Folk icon Woody Guthrie, who from 1950 was a tenant in one of Trump's apartment complexes in Brooklyn, criticized Trump as a landlord. He wrote lyrics that accused his landlord of stirring up racial hate "in the bloodpot of human hearts".[1]...
...In 1973, the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division filed a civil rights suit against the Trump Organization, charging that it refused to rent to black people. The Urban League had sent black and white testers to apply for apartments in Trump-owned complexes; the whites got the apartments, the blacks did not...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
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