US President Donald Trump often confuses his father and grandfather when it comes to where his father was born. He incorrectly claimed that his father was born in Germany. This was clear during a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg earlier in the White House. Trump said he had "great respect" for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Germany, suggesting in a television interview that the European nation should increase its military spending. "My father was a German, it was true, he was Germany," he said with unambiguous confirmation. "He was born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling about Germany, but they do not pay what they have to pay."
But the truth is that Fred Trump, Trump's father, was born in New York. His grandfather, Frederick Trump, was born in Germany before emigrating to the United States in 1885 at the age of 16. This is not the first time Trump has claimed that his father was born in Germany or lived there. At the NATO summit last year in Brussels, Trump said: "I have great respect for Germany, my parents are from Germany, both my mom and dad are from the European Union, despite the fact that they do not treat us well in trade." In July, during a trip to Scotland, he told CBS News: "Do not forget that my parents are boys in parts of the European Union, my mother is from Scotland, and my father is from Germany." In another interview with Fox News last year, he said, "My parents were born in the European Union." "I love these two countries, Germany and Scotland. They're still there, are not they? "
Trump and his supporters ahead of the presidential election have launched a campaign that doubts that the birthplace of former President Barack Obama is the United States, and claims that he was born in Kenya, but was proven to have been born in the United States.
Trump's mother, Mary McLeod, was already born in Scotland, on the island of Louis. His father, Fred Trump, was born in New York City, USA, not Germany. He ran a family real estate company when he was a teenager and got huge sums before he transferred the reins to his son Trump. His grandfather, Frederick Trump, was born in Germany in the village of Kalstadt and left for America at a young age. He worked as a barber in Manhattan before heading west. He lived for a while in Washington State and then in Yukon, Canada, where he sold horse meat, Services »Gold prospectors. He then returned to Germany, but was dismissed from military service. Trump's father until the 1980s pretended to be of Swedish origin, and did so because he thought it would be more acceptable to many of his Jewish tenants.