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Fred Trump

Fred Trump was not arrested in 1927 at a klan rally, he was detained for a short period of time and released. He was never charged or even taken into the precinct. this should be corrected. Do some research the records are available, I found them I’m sure you can too 2603:7000:C700:19E:EDB7:5F69:B7B8:8978 (talk) 13:16, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

It seems whoever wrote the entire article has a bias against the Trump family. It's so obvious. 2600:1700:3B01:F20:C54F:5D68:C2FE:5542 (talk) 15:36, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

That was the first thing I noticed within the first few paragraphs 172.56.10.160 (talk) 21:03, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Reality has a bias against the Trump family. If you contest the factuality of any specific assertion in the article, state your objection and provide a counter argument citing reputable sources. If you can't do that, then you need to cease wasting Wikipedia space and editors's time. TheScotch (talk) 00:05, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

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Change the spelling of Fred Trump to Fried Trump 139.135.78.231 (talk) 07:39, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

Not done Intentionally making the spelling incorrect. Theeverywhereperson (talk here) 09:19, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

federal civil rights lawsuit in The Apprentice

Was the lead prosecutor blackmailed by Roy Cohn into settling the federal civil rights lawsuit, as depicted in The Apprentice? rootsmusic (talk) 04:02, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

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Remove Christ as his middle name. It was his wife's maiden name before marrying him. ~2025-42209-56 (talk) 17:49, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want made. I believe you have confused him with his father, Frederick Trump. Day Creature (talk) 18:01, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Seemingly confusing text

In the third paragraph of the section "Early life and career" the sentence:

Investigative journalist Wayne Barrett posits that Trump exaggerated the length of his career while arguing in federal court in 1934 that he should deserve a dissolved company's mortgage servicer.

does not seem to make sense. What does it mean to "deserve" a mortgage servicer? Do any of these words/terms have specialized meanings that make the sentence clear? Or possibly is "deserve" actually "de-serve" rather than what it appears, which is "deserve" as in being entitled to something? And if so, what does de-serve mean in this context?

And to whom does "he" (my bold in the quoted sentence) refer to? Fred Trump or Wayne Barrett?

The second paragraph in the subsequent subsection "Rise to success" talks about the court case in 1934, but sheds little light on the question posed above.

In that same subsection, the text states:

Radio and television personality Art Linkletter introduced Trump at the ceremony, with Peale's wife (and previous award recipient), Ruth Peale, presenting him the award

There is no antecedent to "Peale", which refers to Norman Vincent Peale whose full name only appears later in the article. The footnote does mention Peale, but one should not have to consult a footnote to understand something so basic. If this were being read 50 years ago, it might be reasonable to assume that many (but not all) readers would guess that this referred to NVP, but in 2025 that is hardly a reasonable assumption.

It would be easy to correct this last problem, but the page is protected. I have zero interest in the politics of protected pages, so will hope that someone who has proper credentials and common sense can fix this by simply spelling out NVP's full name and also making it a link to the NVP Wikipedia page for the benefit of those not born in the previous century.

And really, do we need "surviving nuclear family" at the close of this subsection? What possible purpose could that serve -- unless Fred Trump actually literally used that term (he does not, at least in the YouTube video linked in the footnote). In fact, "nuclear family" is incorrect because he mentions his daughters-in-law, which as far as I know are not considered part of one's nuclear family. This seems at best to be overly pedantic, but I think it is actually misleading. Just "family" ought to be enough, unless mention is made at some point of missing family members.

In the fifth paragraph of the subsection "Personal life":

The boys had paper routes, and in bad weather he would let them make their deliveries in a limousine.

I would think "and" (bold face is mine) might more appropriately be "but" because the usual expectation is that boys with paper routes would normally deliver papers rain or shine. Presumably this anecdote is to illustrate that Fred did cut his kids some slack at times, which is why "but" seems more appropriate in this context.

The final subsection "In popular culture" is not worth commenting on because it is so atrocious, it's not clear where to even start. Did any moderators (or whatever they are called) look at this? It brings the accuracy of the entire article into question. The final paragraph essentially accuses Fred Trump of being a Nazi but does not actually complete the thought and instead moves on to some pablum statement that this was never proven. Why would there need to be proof of a claim that offers no evidence? [Note: I am not arguing the merits of the claim because the claim is so ridiculously stated that it inherently has no merits. If there is evidence, cite it. If not, why mention it?]

Ksbooth (talk) 08:57, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

All good points. I've fixed most. Unfortunately I'm in as much of the dark about the "deserve a dissolved company's mortgage servicer" as you, so I've added a clarify tag. Maybe someone else will know. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 09:56, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. I think you addressed all of my comments (except the final one, which came after your edits). I agree that it is not clear how to deal with the "mortgage servicer" text without knowing the intent of the original author. Ksbooth (talk) 10:06, 7 January 2026 (UTC)

I went back and retrieved the text as it was originally entered. Some intervening edit muddied the waters. Still can't say I understand exactly what it means, but at least the "deserve" makes more sense.--Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 10:28, 7 January 2026 (UTC)