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The US President Donald Trump paid tribute to his youngest brother following his death at 71. “It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” he said in a statement.
The president had visited his brother in hospital in New York the day before his death, telling reporters: “He’s having a hard time.” It is unclear what caused Robert Trump’s death.
“He was not just my brother, he was my best friend,” Donald Trump said in a statement. “His memory will live on in my heart forever.”
President Trump’s son Eric described his uncle as an “incredible man – strong, kind and loyal to the core”. “He will be deeply missed by our entire family,” he wrote on Twitter.
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Robert was the youngest of Fred and Mary Anne Trump’s five children, and was born two years after his brother Donald. The eldest of the children, Fred Jr, died in 1981.
Robert Trump spent much of his career with the family real-estate firm, becoming a top executive. Unlike his brother, however, he was said not to court publicity and lived semi-retired in New York state.
In his 1987 book The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump wrote that “Robert gets along with almost everyone, which is great for me since I sometimes have to be the bad guy”.
In a 2016 interview with the New York Post ahead of the presidential election, the younger brother said “I support Donald one thousand percent”.
