Английская Википедия:Fred Trump Jr.

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Frederick Crist Trump Jr. (October 14, 1938 – September 26, 1981) was an American airplane pilot and maintenance worker. The eldest son of real-estate businessman Fred Trump Sr., he fell out of his father's favor when he chose to become an airline pilot, leading to his younger brother Donald (the 45th president of the United States) inheriting the family business.

Both Fred Sr. and Donald disparaged Fred Jr. for becoming a pilot. By the early 1970s, Fred Jr. could no longer function as a pilot due to his alcoholism , a condition which also contributed to his heart attack-induced death.

Early life

Frederick Crist Trump Jr. was born on October 14, 1938, as the first son of wealthy real-estate developer Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump in Queens, New York.Шаблон:Sfn In 1956 Fred Jr. graduated from St. Paul's School. In that same year his father Fred Sr. donated money to have the playing fields redone and in his honor were renamed Trump Field.

Fred Jr. attended Lehigh University and joined a historically Jewish fraternity, Sigma Alpha Mu, although he was not Jewish.Шаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn He became president of the fraternity and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in business, also completing Reserve Officers' Training Corps and entering the Air National Guard as a second lieutenant.Шаблон:Sfn

Pilot career

In 1958, Fred Jr. met Linda Clapp while vacationing in the Bahamas. She later became a flight attendant and asked him for help finding an apartment near Idlewild Airport; they soon began dating. He proposed to her in 1961. In early 1962, they were married in Florida, and she resigned from the airline, which did not allow its flight attendants to be married. They settled in Manhattan and had their first child, Frederick Crist Trump III, in November 1962.Шаблон:Sfn The next year, they moved into one of Fred Sr.'s apartments in Jamaica, Queens. During this time, Fred Jr. did maintenance jobs on his father's properties.Шаблон:Sfn Fred Sr. wanted his oldest son to be "invulnerable" so he could take over his real-estate business, E. Trump & Son, but Fred Jr. was the opposite in personality.Шаблон:Sfn In 1966, Fred Jr. was listed in newspapers as vice president of E. Trump & Son, but he had a difficult time working with his father.Шаблон:Deadlink Fred Jr. left the company to pursue his dream of being a pilot, quickly being accepted at Trans World Airlines, which created tension with his father. According to Fred Jr.'s daughter, Mary L. Trump (born 1965), her grandfather "dismantled him by devaluing and degrading every aspect of his personality." Both Fred Sr. and Donald mocked him for his decision to become an airline pilot, comparing it to driving a bus or being a chauffeur.Шаблон:Sfn

Alcoholism and death

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By 1970, after a series of domestic incidents, Clapp asked Fred Jr. to leave their home and arranged for Fred Sr. to change the locks.Шаблон:Sfn When his alcoholism prevented him from continuing to function as a pilot, Fred Jr. returned to work for his father's business. He eventually moved into the unfurnished attic of his parents' house, and once again did maintenance on Trump properties.Шаблон:Sfn On September 26, 1981, at the age of 42, he died from a heart attack caused by his alcohol use.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn

Aftermath and Reactions

Donald Trump, who since 1976 has spoken publicly of his own abstinence from alcohol, initially cited the formative influence of their father's teetotalism, but later shifted credit to the adult experience with his brother, claiming:

Every day he lectured me, "Look at the mess I'm in. If I ever catch you smoking, you'll be sorry, drinking even a glass of booze because you'll like it too much." ... Freddy did a good job.

On the 16th of March 1994, Mary Anne MacLeod gave an interview with RTÉ presenter Bibi Baskin and told her 'We lost a son. Our oldest son, we lost. He was 41. Something a mother never forgets.'

In 1999, just after Fred Sr.'s funeral, Fred III's son, William Trump, was born with cerebral palsy. The Trump family agreed to pay for the child's medical expenses. Fred Sr.'s will was revealed. It mandated that Fred Jr.'s children, Fred III and Mary, would be excluded from their father's share of Fred Sr.'s inheritance; over $20 million would be divided among Fred Sr.'s other children.Шаблон:Efn Fred III and Mary filed a lawsuit, alleging that Fred Jr.'s siblings, including Donald, used "undue influence" on a dementia-addled Fred Sr. to cut them out of the inheritance. Donald, who later said he "was angry because they sued," suspended the medical benefits for Fred Jr.'s children, as well as Fred III's infant son. According to Mary, she and Fred III sued to have the benefits reinstated, but only her infant nephew received "some accommodations" as a result. Mary’s lawsuit was rejected by a NY State Court, citing that she had signed agreements that removed her ability to sue but granted her more than $2.7 million. The judge found her to have willfully acknowledged (and signed) the agreement and ruled that the agreement was neither coerced nor unfair. The court decision was upheld on appeal.

In 2019, Donald Trump gave an interview to the Washington Times on his brother's death . 'I do regret having put pressure on him - [running the firm] was just something he was never going to want,' said Trump. 'It was just not his thing.' Trump recalled personally telling his brother, 'you're wasting your time [flying].' 'There was sort of a double pressure put on him by his brother [Donald] and his father [Fred].' 'I think the mistake that we made was we assumed that everybody would like it. That would be the biggest mistake... what he loved doing was flying airplanes...'

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