President Trump loses younger brother

US President Donald Trump has lost his younger brother, Robert S. Trump who died on Saturday night, August 15 in Manhattan.

He was reported to have died at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in Lennox Hill. He was 71.

His death was announced by The White House. However, no cause was given.

Reacting to Robert’s death, Donald Trump said in a statement: “He was not just my brother, he was my best friend.

“He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace.”

Robert Trump, who took blood thinners, had experienced brain bleeds which began after a recent fall, according to a family friend.

President Trump was reported to have visited him at the hospital on Friday, August 14.

“I have a wonderful brother,” the president said on Friday at a White House news conference before departing to visit him. “We’ve had a great relationship for a long time, from Day 1.”

According to reports, the two brothers were estranged for years before Donald Trump ran for the presidency.

On Saturday, the president called the hospital from his Bedminster, N.J., golf club, New York Times reports. He shortly held a news conference but did not mention his brother’s health. Friends who spoke to him said he was downcast.

Robert Trump had no children, but helped raise Christopher Hollister Trump-Retchin, the son of his first wife, Blaine Trump, and even giving him his last name.

Robert is survived by his second wife, Ann Marie Pallan, his brother, Donald Trump, and his sisters, Maryanne Trump Barry and Elizabeth Trump Grau. His brother Fred Jr. died in 1981.

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