Fred Trump Taught His Son the Essentials of Showboating Self-Promotion

By JASON HOROWITZAUG. 12, 2016

Image: Biographer: Two Powerful Men Taught Trump How to Attack — Donald Trump and his father in 1987 at Wollman Rink in Central Park. Credit Dennis C

Frederick ~~Jesus~~ Christ "Fred" Trump (1905—1999) was an American real estate developer. He was the father of "the" Donald Trump.... Proving the "Christ" part of his name to be true, in the New York State census of 1925, Trump listed his profession as "carpenter".

Fred Trump built his fortune by profiteering off the US government housing contracts during the post-WWII building boom. Trump was investigated by a 1954 US Senate committee and never charged with a crime, but his tactics are reminiscent of his son's real estate tactics (self-dealing, inflating prices, and shifting risk to other parties while keeping capital).

Before his death in 1999, Fred Trump suffered from Alzheimer's Disease for six years.
We know that the disease has a genetic component, but we hope it is not the case with his son.
(We already had an Alzheimer president.)

Fred became sick with pneumonia in June 1999 and was admitted to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, where he died a few weeks later.

In the 1950s, Woody Guthrie lived as a tenant in one of Fred's buildings (named Beach Haven) and wrote a heretofore unpublished song about Fred:

I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project
…
Beach Haven ain’t my home!
I just can’t pay this rent!
My money’s down the drain!
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven looks like heaven
Where no black ones come to roam!
No, no, no! Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain’t my home!

Source: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fred_Trump

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