Robert Trump

{{Infobox person

| name = Robert Trump

| image = RobertTrump.gif

| birth_name = Robert Stewart Trump

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|8|26}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|8|15|1948|8|26}}

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| alma_mater = Boston University (BS)

| occupation = {{hlist|Businessman|real estate developer|investor}}

| boards = ZeniMax Media

| spouse = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Blaine Beard|1984|2009|end = divorced}}
{{marriage|Ann Marie Pallan|2020}}

}}

| parents = Fred Trump
Mary Anne MacLeod

| family = Trump family

}}

Robert Stewart Trump (August 26, 1948 – August 15, 2020) was an American businessman and investor. He was the younger brother of U.S. president Donald Trump, and was a loyal supporter of Donald's political career.

Trump served on the board of directors for ZeniMax Media, parent company to Bethesda Softworks, a position he occupied from 1999 until his death in 2020. In addition to being a board member at ZeniMax, he was also an investor in the company.

In the years prior to his death, Robert Trump was the president of Trump Management, a business owned by the Trump siblings. At some point, he also worked as a real estate developer.

Early life and education

Robert Trump was born in Queens on August 26, 1948, to Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod.{{cite news|last1=Hannan|first1=Martin|title=An inconvenient truth? Donald Trump's Scottish mother was a low-earning migrant|url=http://www.thenational.scot/news/14903147.An_inconvenient_truth__Donald_Trump_s_Scottish_mother_was_a_low_earning_migrant/|access-date=February 11, 2017|work=The National|date=May 20, 2016|archive-date=October 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014054533/http://www.thenational.scot/news/14903147.An_inconvenient_truth__Donald_Trump_s_Scottish_mother_was_a_low_earning_migrant/|url-status=live}} He was the youngest of their five children; his siblings were Maryanne, Fred Jr., Elizabeth, and Donald.{{cite news|date=January 9, 2017|title=Trump's Brother and Yankees Executive Coming to Hudson Valley|work=WKXP|url=http://hudsonvalleycountry.com/trumps-brother-and-yankees-executive-coming-to-hudson-valley/|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=February 12, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212163941/http://hudsonvalleycountry.com/trumps-brother-and-yankees-executive-coming-to-hudson-valley/|url-status=live}} He graduated from St Paul's School in Garden City, Long Island. Trump attended Boston University, where he majored in economics;{{Cite news|last=Karni|first=Annie|date=August 15, 2020|title=Robert S. Trump, the President's Younger Brother, Dies at 71|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/politics/robert-s-trump-dead.html|access-date=August 16, 2020|issn=0362-4331}} while there, he played soccer and was the MVP and team captain in 1969.{{cite news |author=Staff Writer |url=http://www.bu.edu/today/close-ups/2020/robert-trump-bu-alum-and-presidents-brother-dies/ |title= Robert Trump, BU Alum and President's Brother, Dies |work=BU Today |date=August 16, 2020 |access-date=August 17, 2020 }}

Career

Trump joined his father's business and came to manage the Trump Organization's real estate holdings outside of Manhattan.{{cite book|last1=Blair|first1=Gwenda|title=The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate|date=2015|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-1501139369|page=454|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uJifCgAAQBAJ|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=February 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217015120/https://books.google.com/books?id=uJifCgAAQBAJ&dq|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Horowitz|first1=Jason|title=For Donald Trump, Lessons From a Brother's Suffering|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/us/politics/for-donald-trump-lessons-from-a-brothers-suffering.html|access-date=February 11, 2017|work=New York Times|date=January 2, 2016|archive-date=October 27, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20171027141255/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/us/politics/for-donald-trump-lessons-from-a-brothers-suffering.html|url-status=live}}

Following Mark G. Etess's death in an October 1989 helicopter crash on a Garden State Parkway median in Lacey Township, New Jersey, Donald Trump appointed Robert Trump to serve in Etess's former position.{{cite news |last=Borja |first=Debbie |url=https://pressofatlanticcity.com/gallery/oct-10-1989-3-trump-execs-2-pilots-die-as-helicopter-crashes-in-parkway-median/article_40ea7e95-9309-5e01-89ba-7f6c30409ff3.html |title=October 10, 1989: 3 Trump execs, 2 pilots die as helicopter crashes in Parkway median |work=The Press of Atlantic City |date=October 11, 1989 |access-date=July 2, 2021}}{{cite news |url=https://pressofatlanticcity.com/business/trump-taj-mahal-closed-on-the-anniversary-of-executives-helicopter-crash/article_19e308a4-d5ea-5604-b37d-f21cd9554630.html |title=Trump Taj Mahal closed on the anniversary of executives' helicopter crash |work=The Press of Atlantic City |date=October 10, 2016 |access-date=July 2, 2021}}{{efn|In addition to the death of 37-year-old Mark Grossinger Etess from Margate, others killed in the October 10, 1989 helicopter crash were the pilot Robert Kent, from Ronkonkoma, New York, the co-pilot Lawrence Diener from Westbury, New York, Jonathan Benanav from Margate, and Stephen F. Hyde from Linwood. Jonathan Benanav, 33, had worked as an executive assistant manager and director of hotel operations at the Sands Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City from June 1982 to July 1985, then had worked as general manager at the Airport Hilton in Philadelphia before joining the Trump Organization in 1986 where he was the executive vice president of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. Stephen F. Hyde, 43, was a quiet man who was attentive to details and headed Trump's three Atlantic City casino properties. The crash occurred at 1:40pm near Garden State Parkway mile marker 71.5 about {{convert|0.75|mile}} from the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant.}} Etess had been the top executive at the Trump Taj Mahal, Robert Trump's special sporting events coordinator, and was the master of super deals in sports and entertainment for Donald Trump.{{efn|After Donald Trump traveled to Russia and visited Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1987, he began organizing sporting events through representatives with Viktor Galaev ({{langx|ru|Виктор Галаев}}) and the KGB controller Sergey Chemezov's Sovintersport which held a monopoly on Soviet sports.{{cite news |last1=Berger |first1=Phil |title=Getting to the Main Event Becomes a Main Event |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/25/sports/getting-to-the-main-event-becomes-a-main-event.html |access-date=25 July 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=25 November 1989 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525124216/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/25/sports/getting-to-the-main-event-becomes-a-main-event.html |archive-date=May 25, 2015}}{{cite news |last=РОЛДУГИН |first=Олег (Roldugin, Oleg) |url=http://www.anticompromat.org/chemezov/sobes2008.html |title=ЧЕМЕЗОВ - ЗАПАСНОЕ ОРУЖИЕ ПУТИНА |trans-title=CHEMEZOV IS PUTIN'S BACKUP WEAPON |language=ru |work=Собеседник (sobesednik.ru) |date=18 March 2008 |access-date=18 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925000139/http://www.anticompromat.org/chemezov/sobes2008.html |archive-date=25 September 2015}} [http://sobesednik.ru/archive/sb/11-2008/chemezov-gun Original Sobesednik site] as "ЧЕЛОВЕК С РУЖЬЕМ. Как глава Ростехнологии перешел из разведки в бизнеc" ("A MAN WITH A GUN. How the head of Rostekhnologii moved from intelligence to business"){{cite news |last=Прибыловский |first=Владимир |author-link=Vladimir Pribylovsky |url=http://www.anticompromat.org/chemezov/chemezbio.html |title=ЧЕМЕЗОВ Сергей Викторович |trans-title=CHEMEZOV Sergey Viktorovich |language=ru |work=Антикомпромат (anticompromat.org) |date=2016 |access-date=18 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427024948/http://www.anticompromat.org/chemezov/chemezbio.html |archive-date=27 April 2016}}{{cite news |last=Прибыловский |first=Владимир |author-link=Vladimir Pribylovsky |url=http://anticompromat.org/chemezov/index.html |title=ЧЕМЕЗОВ Сергей Викторович: ссылки, аннотации |trans-title=CHEMEZOV Sergey Viktorovich: references, abstracts |language=ru |work=Антикомпромат (anticompromat.org) |date=2016 |access-date=18 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412130341/http://anticompromat.org/chemezov/index.html |archive-date=12 April 2016}} As KGB officers, both Vladimir Putin and Chemezov, who were friends, lived in the same apartment building in Dresden when they formed Sovintersport in the 1980s.{{cite news |last=Raschke |first=Erik |url=https://www.velonews.com/events/the-outer-line-tour-de-trump-with-a-russian-accent/ |title=The Outer Line: Tour de Trump with a Russian accent: Erik Raschke examines the connection between Russia and the Tour de Trump. |work=VeloNews |date=July 1, 2018 |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240510223303/https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-racing/the-outer-line-tour-de-trump-with-a-russian-accent/?scope=anon |archive-date=May 10, 2024}}{{cite news |last=Козырев (Kozyrev)|first=Михаил (Mikhail) |url=https://www.forbes.ru/forbes/issue/2007-10/16688-pod-prikrytiem?from_alt_domain=1 |title=Под прикрытием |trans-title=Under cover |language=ru |work=Forbes |date=3 October 2007 |access-date=August 11, 2021 |archive-date=August 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811222602/https://www.forbes.ru/forbes/issue/2007-10/16688-pod-prikrytiem?from_alt_domain=1}}{{cite book |last=Dawisha |first=Karen |author-link=Karen Dawisha |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1476795207 |title=Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? |year=2014 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |pages=58, 240 |isbn=978-1-4767-9519-5}}{{cite news |last1=Chait |first1=Jonathan |author1-link=Jonathan Chait |title=What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987? |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html |access-date=25 July 2024 |work=Intelligencer |date=8 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015094508/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html |archive-date=October 15, 2018 |language=en}} Sergei Chemezov, who became a hunter during his days in Dresden, loves hunting in Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia where Chemezov hunted with fellowing hunting enthusist Sergey Yastrzhembsky who was the Russian Ambassador to Slovakia from 3 June 1993 to 13 August 1996.{{cite news |last=ВАНДЕНКО |first=Андрей (VANDENKO, Andrey) |url=http://www.anticompromat.org/chemezov/interv2005.html |title=ЧЕЛОВЕК ВО ВСЕОРУЖИИ |trans-title=A MAN FULLY ARMED |language=ru |work="Итоги" (itogi.ru) |date=31 October 2005 |access-date=18 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925000126/http://www.anticompromat.org/chemezov/interv2005.html |archive-date=25 September 2015}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20111225112847/http://www.itogi.ru/Paper2005.nsf/Article/Itogi_2005_11_01_01_4232.html Archive of original article] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424113349/http://www.itogi.ru/archive/2005/44/62260.html additional archive of the original article]}}

When concern was expressed about violent video games, in the wake of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, "political luminaries",{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Robert Altman, Video Game Mogul Who Survived Scandal, Dies at 73 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/business/robert-altman-dead.html |access-date=28 July 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=13 February 2021}} including Robert Trump, were added to the board of directors for ZeniMax Media, parent company to Bethesda Softworks.{{cite web|first= Alissa|last=McAloon|url=https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/obituary-zenimax-board-member-robert-trump|title=Obituary: ZeniMax board member Robert Trump|website=Gamasutra|date=August 17, 2020|access-date=August 17, 2020}} until his death in 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.zenimax.com/about|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731034441/https://www.zenimax.com/about|title=ZeniMax Media Board of Directors|archive-date=July 31, 2020|access-date=August 16, 2020}} During his tenure as a director, ZeniMax published several series, including Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Doom, and Wolfenstein. His role at the company was highlighted by media outlets in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, when his brother linked video games to violence and subsequently met with various industry chiefs,{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-08/game-maker-joining-gun-violence-discussion-has-a-trump-on-board|title=Video-Game Companies Are Meeting With Trump. His Brother Is on One's Board|last1=Sink|first1=Justin|last2=Palmeri|first2=Christopher|publisher=Bloomberg|date=March 8, 2018|access-date=August 16, 2020|archive-date=June 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200625224610/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-08/game-maker-joining-gun-violence-discussion-has-a-trump-on-board|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/03/08/591884059/trump-pits-video-game-makers-against-harshest-critics-in-another-made-for-tv-mee|title=Trump Pits Video Game Makers Against Harshest Critics In Closed-Door Meeting|publisher=NPR|last1=Montanaro|first1=Domenico|last2=Parks|first2=Miles|date=March 18, 2018|access-date=August 16, 2020}} including Robert Altman, CEO of ZeniMax.{{cite web | url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/03/08/trump-talk-video-game-makers-critics-thursday-white-house-meeting/406374002/ | title = These are the video games the White House played in its meeting on game violence |first= Mike | last =Snider | date = March 8, 2018 | access-date = August 16, 2020 | work = USA Today }} In addition to being a board member at ZeniMax, Trump was also an investor in the company.{{cite web|first=Dean|last=Takahashi|url=https://venturebeat.com/2008/05/30/zenimax-media-raises-99-million-from-some-big-names/|title=ZeniMax Media raises $9.9 million from some big names|website=VentureBeat|date=May 30, 2008|access-date=August 16, 2020|archive-date=June 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625124752/http://venturebeat.com/2008/05/30/zenimax-media-raises-99-million-from-some-big-names/|url-status=live}}

In the years prior to his death, Robert Trump was the president of Trump Management, Inc.,{{cite web |title=Mary L. Trump, Plaintiff, v. Donald J. Trump, in his personal capacity, 77 Misc. 3d 543 |url=https://casetext.com/case/trump-v-trump-10 |website=CaseText + Citator |publisher=Supreme Court, New York County |access-date=25 July 2024 |date=November 14, 2022}} Fred Trump{{'}}s business,{{cite news |last1=Kranish |first1=Michael |title=Robert Trump, younger brother of the president, dies at 71 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/robert-trump-younger-brother-of-president-trump-who-filed-lawsuit-against-niece-dies-at-71/2020/08/15/6ec0f102-de62-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html |access-date=25 July 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=16 August 2020}} later owned by the Trump siblings, including Donald and Robert, as well as their sisters Maryanne Trump-Barry and Elizabeth Trump-Grau.{{cite news|url=https://www.ibtimes.com/who-robert-trump-presidents-brother-hospitalized-seriously-ill-3028636|title=Who Is Robert Trump? President's Brother Hospitalized, Seriously Ill|author=Thomas Kika|work=International Business Times|date=August 14, 2020|access-date=August 16, 2020}} At some point, Trump worked as a real estate developer.{{cite web |title=Trump says younger brother and 'best friend' Robert Trump has died |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/robert-trump-death-brother-age-cause-worth-today-latest-a9672651.html |website=The Independent |access-date=August 16, 2020 |language=en |date=August 16, 2020}}

=Mary Trump book lawsuit=

In June 2020, Robert Trump filed a lawsuit seeking to preclude the upcoming publication of the book by his niece, Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough. Trump's lawsuit was based on a 2001 confidentiality agreement Mary Trump signed in settling a lawsuit related to her grandfather, Fred Trump's, will and estate.{{cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Shayna |title=Judge affirms Trump's niece can publish her book about the president and his family |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/mary-trump-book-too-much-and-never-enough/2020/07/13/6d8c64d8-c521-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html |access-date=July 17, 2020 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=July 13, 2020 |archive-date=July 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718041120/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/mary-trump-book-too-much-and-never-enough/2020/07/13/6d8c64d8-c521-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html |url-status=live }}

Justice Hal B. Greenwald of the New York Supreme Court ruled in July 2020 that the book's publisher, Simon & Schuster, was not a party to the 2001 NDA, and its rights to publish the book were not restricted by that agreement. Greenwald affirmed that Mary Trump's contract with the publisher gave her no ability to halt publication at that point.{{cite news|title=Donald Trump's Niece Mary Can Speak Out About Her Family with Scathing New Memoir, Judge Rules|url=https://people.com/politics/judge-rules-for-mary-trump-in-memoir-lawsuit/|work=People.com|date=July 14, 2020|access-date=August 15, 2020|archive-date=August 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805035450/https://people.com/politics/judge-rules-for-mary-trump-in-memoir-lawsuit/|url-status=live}} The book was published on July 14, 2020.

Personal life

Robert Trump lived in Millbrook, New York.{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths: Trump, MaryA. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/11/classified/paid-notice-deaths-trump-mary-a.html |access-date=28 July 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=11 August 2000}}{{cite news|last1=Kasssel|first1=Matthew|date=November 2, 2016|title=Where Has Donald Trump's Brother Robert Been During This Election?|work=Town & Country|url=http://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/news/a8479/robert-trump/|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170520102534/https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/news/a8479/robert-trump/|archive-date=May 20, 2017|ref=tc}} In 2012, Blaine Trump put her $17.5 million mansion in Millbrook up for sale.{{Cite news|url=https://www.curbed.com/2012/6/22/10361690/the-ohsovery-untrump-mansion-of-socialite-blaine-trump|title=The Oh-So-Very Un-Trump Mansion of Socialite Blaine Trump|last=Bear|first=Rob|date=June 22, 2012|work=Curbed|access-date=February 18, 2019}}

In 1984, Trump married Blaine Beard,{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths: Beard, Josephus Simmons II |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/classified/paid-notice-deaths-beard-josephus-simmons-ii.html |access-date=28 July 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=8 March 2002}} whom he met at a Christie's fundraiser.{{cite news|date=October 28, 1987|title=The Winning Ways of Blaine Trump|work=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/28/garden/the-winning-ways-of-blaine-trump.html|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=January 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170127082911/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/28/garden/the-winning-ways-of-blaine-trump.html|url-status=live}} He had a stepson named Christopher Trump-Retchin. In October 2004, Blaine overdosed on pills and was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan after she learned that Robert bought a $3.7 million house on Long Island for his secretary and then-girlfriend Ann Marie Pallan.[https://www.thelist.com/237117/ann-marie-pallan-who-is-robert-trumps-wife Ann Marie Pallan: Who is Robert Trump's wife?] They were involved in a lengthy divorce battle that lasted from 2007 until reaching a secret settlement in 2010.{{Cite news|url=http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/41836/|title=Divorce, Park Avenue Style|last=Rosenblum|first=Emma|date=December 8, 2007|work=New York|access-date=February 18, 2019}}{{cite news|last1=Rosenblum|first1=Emma|date=December 8, 2007|title=Divorce, Park Avenue Style|work=New York|url=http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/41836/|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=June 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603152842/http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/41836/|url-status=live}}

In 2006, after Robert and Blaine separated, they put their {{convert|6,500|sqft|m2|abbr=off|adj=on|sp=us}}, three-unit, three-floor, unfinished co-op residence on the market.{{cite news |last1=Neuman |first1=William |title=A Trump Triplex Goes on the Market |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/realestate/14deal1.html |access-date=28 July 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=14 May 2006}}

Trump married his second wife, Ann Marie Pallan, in January 2020.{{cite web|title=Robert Trump, younger brother of president, dead at 71|date=August 16, 2020 |url=https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/robert-trump-younger-brother-president-has-died/RMMNFKTZOFGKNIIKLRN2J4T47M/|access-date=August 31, 2020}} Robert was a longtime friend of Robert A. Altman.{{cite web |first=Christopher |last=Palmeri |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-25/from-banking-scandal-to-video-game-ceo-to-billion-dollar-score |title=From Banking Scandal to Video-Game CEO to Billion-Dollar Score |website=bloomberg.com |date=September 25, 2020 |access-date=February 7, 2021 |archive-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927030721/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-25/from-banking-scandal-to-video-game-ceo-to-billion-dollar-score |url-status=live}}

=Relationship with his brother Donald=

In 1990, Donald Trump put Robert in charge of the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey.{{cite news |last1=Janson |first1=Donald |title=10TH AND LARGEST CASINO OPENS IN ATLANTIC CITY |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/15/nyregion/10th-and-largest-casino-opens-in-atlantic-city.html |access-date=28 July 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=15 May 1984}} The casino experienced significant problems with its grand opening, especially the slot machine financial controls, that took months to rectify. According to Jack O'Donnell, a former Trump Organization executive, at one of the meetings, "Donald Trump screamed at his brother, putting the blame for the slot machine debacle entirely on him."

Robert Trump remained a loyal supporter of his brother's political career. Fox commentator, Eric Bolling, following Robert's death, had stated that he and his wife Ann Marie Pallan were vigorous supporters of Donald. Donald himself stated on Fox & Friends that Robert was his biggest fan and that he would hear about Robert's immense support from others too.

Illness and death

In August 2020, ABC News reported that Trump had been hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, after having previously been in the hospital's intensive care unit for over a week in June.{{cite news|author=Holland, Steve|date=August 16, 2020|title='He was my best friend' - Robert Trump, US president's brother who shunned the spotlight, dies|url=https://www.independent.ie/world-news/he-was-my-best-friend-robert-trump-us-presidents-brother-who-shunned-the-spotlight-dies-39453225.html|work=Irish Independent}} Donald Trump visited him that day, later stating that Robert was seriously ill and was "having a hard time".{{cite news|title=Robert Trump, Donald's brother, seriously ill in New York hospital|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/14/robert-trump-donald-brother-seriously-ill-new-york-hospital|access-date=August 16, 2020|work=The Guardian}}{{Cite news|last1=Jackson|first1=David|last2=Fritze|first2=John|last3=Subramanian|first3=Courtney|date=August 14, 2020|title='Having a hard time.' President Trump's brother Robert is hospitalized in New York|language=en-US|work=USA Today|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/14/trumps-brother-robert-trump-admitted-hospital-white-house-says/3374790001/|access-date=August 16, 2020}} Robert Trump died at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan the following day, August 15, 2020, at age 71. The New York Times quoted a family friend as saying that Trump had recently started experiencing intracerebral hemorrhaging after a fall. His niece Mary, in an interview with Greenpeace a few days before his death, said that Robert had been sick and hospitalized "a couple of times in the last three months."{{cite web|title=Fireside fire drill with Jane Fonda and Mary Trump| date=August 14, 2020 |url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=hw3Z2cpOrFQ|access-date=August 14, 2020|publisher=Greenpeace USA}}

In a written statement, Donald Trump said, "He was not just my brother, he was my best friend."{{cite web|title=Robert Trump, the younger brother of President Donald Trump, dead at age 71|date=August 16, 2020 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/15/politics/robert-trump-dead/index.html|access-date=August 16, 2020|publisher=CNN}} A funeral service was held for Robert on August 21, 2020, in the East Room attended by 150 guests. This was the first time in almost a century that a president had held a funeral in the East Room.{{cite news|title=Trump Holds a Rare White House Funeral for His Younger Brother, Robert|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/us/politics/funeral-robert-trump.html|access-date=August 24, 2020|work=The New York Times|date=August 21, 2020 |last1=Rogers |first1=Katie |last2=Haberman |first2=Maggie }}