Some Trump background--
Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in the borough of Queens in New York City. He is the fourth of five children born to Mary Anne (née MacLeod) and Fred Trump, who had married in 1936. His sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is a United States federal judge on senior status for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. [20] Trump's mother was a Scottish immigrant, born on the Isle of Lewis, off the west coast of Scotland. [21] Trump's paternal grandparents were German immigrants; [22] Trump's grandfather, Friedrich Drumpf, was a successful Klondike Gold Rush restaurateur who anglicized the family name. [23] In his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump incorrectly claimed that Friedrich Drumpf was of Swedish origin, [24] [25] an assertion previously made by Fred Trump for many years. [26] Trump later acknowledged his German ancestry and served as grand marshal of the 1999 German-American Steuben Parade in New York City. [27]
While living in Jamaica Estates, Trump attended the private Kew-Forest School in Forest Hills, Queens, where Fred Trump, Donald's father, was a member of the Board of Trustees. Some of his siblings also attended Kew-Forest. Trump's father told an interviewer in 1983 he "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small", prompting him to enroll his son in the New York Military Academy (NYMA) in eighth grade for the duration of his high school education. [28] Trump participated in marching drills and wore a uniform, attaining the rank of "cadet captain" in his senior year. [29] He told a biographer in 2015 that NYMA gave him "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military". [30]
Trump attended Fordham University in the Bronx for two years, before transferring to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, because Wharton then had one of the few real estate studies departments in U.S. academia. [31] He graduated in 1968, with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics. [32]
Trump came of age for the draft during the Vietnam War. In an interview in 2011 on New York station WNYW, [33] he stated, "I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number." [34] Selective Service records retrieved by The Smoking Gun website from the National Archives show that, although Trump did eventually receive a high selective service lottery number in 1969, he was not drafted earlier because of four student deferments (2-S) while attending college, and after receiving a medical deferment (1-Y, later converted to 4-F) obtained in 1968 after his college graduation, prior to the lottery being initiated. [35] Trump was deemed fit for service after a military medical examination in 1966, and was briefly classified as 1-A by a local draft board shortly before his 1968 medical disqualification. [36] Trump attributed his medical deferment to " heel spurs" in both feet, according to a 2015 biographer, [30] but told an Iowa campaign audience he suffered from a spur in one foot, though he could not remember which one. [36]
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