Donald Trump has been in the spotlight for decades, and his family has often been right there with him. From messy divorces to reality TV to business dealings, the Trump family has often made headlines.It's also a sprawling family. Donald Trump is one of five children, and he had five children himself. His son Donald Trump Jr. also has five kids of his own. They're fond of passing down names, so there's more than one Fred, Donald, and Eric.Here's a closer look at the Trump family tree, including Donald Trump's parents, siblings, wives, and children.Donald Trump's parents were married in 1936 and had five children together.Born in New York in 1905, Fred Trump grew up in the Bronx. Both of his parents were from the German village of Kallstadt.Fred's father, Friedrich Trump, came to the US as a teenager in 1885. A few years later, he moved to Seattle, where he ran restaurants and hotels. Then Friedrich returned to Germany in 1901 and met Elisabeth Christ.The couple married and eventually moved to New York. Together, they had three children, Elizabeth, Fred, and John.Fred Trump was 12 when his father died of the Spanish Flu in 1918. Elisabeth continued her husband's real estate business, and in 1927, Fred Trump joined E. Trump & Son. Later, he would rename it to the Fred Trump Organization.The company developed and sold single-family homes and then expanded to larger projects.In 1927, The New York Times reported that Fred Trump was arrested when the Ku Klux Klan clashed with police during a march in Queens, New York. It's unclear why Fred Trump was in the area, and the New York City police department doesn't have records dating back to 1927. Donald Trump has repeatedly denied his father was there.In 1936, Fred Trump married Mary Anne MacLeod. Eventually, the couple had five children: Maryanne, Fred Jr., Elizabeth, Donald, and Robert.By the late 1960s, Fred's son Donald was involved in what would become the Trump Organization. "The most important influence on me, growing up, was my father, Fred Trump," Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal." "I learned a lot from him."In 1973, the Justice Department brought a civil rights lawsuit against the father and son and Trump Management, claiming their company discriminated against Black and Puerto Rican applicants looking to rent apartments. The Trumps settled the case two years later without admitting guilt.Three years later, Fred Trump was arrested in Maryland after receiving citations for housing code violations, The Washington Post reported at the time.In 2020, Fred's granddaughter Mary Trump published a tell-all book about her uncle Donald Trump, "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man." She described Fred Trump as a "high-functioning sociopath."Donald Trump denied the characterization in a "Fox News Sunday" interview with Chris Wallace. "My father was — he was tough, he was tough on me, he was tough on all of the kids. But tough in a solid sense, in a really good sense," he said.Fred Trump received a dementia diagnosis in 1991. He died in 1999 at age 93 after being hospitalized for pneumonia.A New York Times investigation found that Donald Trump received the equivalent of $413 million in 2018 dollars and that "much of this money came to Mr. Trump because he helped his parents dodge taxes."In a statement to the Times, Fred Trump's son Robert said that "all appropriate gift and estate tax returns were filed, and the required taxes were paid" after both his father's and his mother's deaths.Mary Anne Trump was born in Scotland in 1912. Then known as Mary Anne MacLeod, she grew up in the Outer Hebrides in a remote village on the Isle of Lewis. Her parents, Malcolm MacLeod and Mary Smith, had 10 children.Malcolm MacLeod worked several jobs to support his family, including fishing and farming land as a crofter.Mary Anne MacLeod had sisters who were living in the US by the 1920s. In 1930, MacLeod, who was about to turn 18, traveled on the SS Transylvania from Glasgow, Scotland, and headed to New York City. The ship's manifests and the 1930 census list her occupation as "maid" or "domestic."After her arrival, she found work as a maid in the Carnegie Mansion, working for Andrew Carnegie's widow, Louise, according to Nina Burleigh's "Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump's Women."Some stories say her sister Catherine introduced Mary Anne to Fred Trump, whom she married in 1936.In 1937, Mary Anne gave birth to Maryanne, her first child. A few years later, in 1942, she became a naturalized citizen of the US.Trump's childhood home was a a five-bedroom Tudor-style house in Jamaica Estates, before the family moved into a 23-room home in the same upper-middle-class area of Queens, New York."We had a very traditional family," Donald Trump wrote in "The Art of the Deal." "My father was the power and the breadwinner, and my mother was the perfect housewife." Mary Anne stayed busy caring for her five children, cleaning their large home, and doing charity work for the nearby Jamaica Hospital.In 2018, Donald Trump posted a video tribute to his mother on Twitter, now X, calling Mary Anne Trump "warm, loving, smart" and saying she "could be tough if she had to be." He wrote in "Art of the Deal" that he identified with her "flair for the dramatic and grand."Yet the relationship between mother and son could be strained. She's said to have expressed disapproval during his first divorce when news of his affair with Marla Maples became public, Vanity Fair reported in 1990.Little more than a year after her husband's death, Mary Anne Trump died in August 2000 at the age of 88.Donald Trump is the second youngest of his four siblings.Maryanne Trump Barry was Fred and Mary Anne Trump's first child. She was born in 1937, the year after they married.Though she was nine years older than her brother Donald, Barry said she "knew better even as a child" than to compete with him. Yet she became an accomplished attorney and judge.Barry attended Mount Holyoke College before getting a master's degree from Columbia University in 1962. More than a decade later, she earned a law degree from Hofstra University in 1974.After law school, she became an assistant federal prosecutor in New Jersey. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan nominated her to become a federal judge. President Bill Clinton selected her to join the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1999.In 2017, Barry took senior status, a form of semiretirement for federal judges, after her brother Donald Trump's inauguration. She fully retired in 2019 in the midst of the investigation surrounding the Trump family's taxes.She married David Desmond in 1960, and the couple had a son, David, who became a psychologist and writer. Barry and Desmond divorced in 1980, according to her obituary in The New York Times. Two years later, she married John J. Barry, a fellow attorney. They were together until his death in 2000.Though Maryanne Trump Barry attended Donald Trump's inauguration in 2017, she was said to have doubts that he'd become president two years earlier. In her 2020 book, Barry's niece Mary Trump quoted her aunt as saying, "He's a clown — this will never happen."Leaked recordings that the Washington Post published in 2020 also have Barry saying: "It's the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel."Jason Miller, then a senior advisor for Trump's reelection campaign, attributed the comments to "sibling rivalries" in a 2020 interview with NBC News' Meet The Press.In 2023, Barry died at the age of 86.In 1938, the year after Maryanne's birth, Fred Trump Jr. was born. His family called him Freddy.Fred Trump Jr. attended Lehigh University. In 1958, he rented a plane and flew to the Bahamas before returning for classes. There he met Linda Clapp, who was also vacationing from Florida. Two years later, they reconnected when she moved to New York to work as a flight attendant. They married in 1962."My mother once told me that Freddy Trump was the most handsome man she'd ever met, and he could make her laugh," Mary Trump wrote of her parents in her 2024 book, "Who Could Ever Love You?"Though Fred Trump Jr. loved to fly and had both his private and commercial licenses, he joined his father's company after he graduated from college. Mary Trump wrote in her 2020 book that he often clashed with his father, who once told him, "Donald is worth 10 of you."Eventually, Fred Trump Jr. quit the family business and became a pilot for Trans World Airlines. Mary Trump said his father and brother Donald both mocked his new profession, with Donald telling him, "Dad's right about you: You're nothing but a glorified bus driver."In 2019, Donald Trump told The Washington Post that he regretted pressuring his brother to stay with the family business.In 1962, Fred Trump Jr. and Linda Trump welcomed their first child, Fred Trump III. Their daughter, Mary, was born in 1965. The couple separated in the late 1960s, and Fred Trump Jr. moved back into his parents' house.Fred Trump Jr.'s heavy drinking took a toll on his life. "By 1967, my father's career and health had deteriorated," Mary Trump wrote in her 2024 book.In 1981, he died of a heart attack related to alcoholism. In her 2020 book, Mary Trump said her Uncle Donald and Aunt Elizabeth went to the movies instead of visiting their brother in the hospital."I had a brother, Fred," Donald Trump said during a 2017 speech. "Great guy, best-looking guy, best personality, much better than mine." He added that his older brother warned him of the dangers of alcohol, which was why he never drank.When Fred Trump Sr. died in 1999, Fred Trump III and Mary Trump sued their family, saying they'd been cut out of their grandfather's will and taken off their family's health insurance. The case was settled in 2001.One of the middle Trump siblings, Elizabeth Trump Grau, was born in 1942. She mostly stayed out of the spotlight.Donald Trump wrote in "Art of the Deal" that his sister Elizabeth was "kind and bright but less ambitious" compared with his other sister Maryanne.For college, she attended Southern Seminary College, known as Southern Virginia University. Grau worked for many years at Chase Manhattan Bank, according to her mother's obituary.In 1989, she married James Grau, who produced documentaries and sports movies with his company Charisma Productions.Before she married, Grau spent much of her free time visiting her parents' home, Mary Trump wrote in her 2024 book.Grau is Donald Trump's only living sibling.The youngest Trump sibling was born in 1948. A moment that Robert Trump often talked about from his childhood was when his older brother Donald took his blocks and glued them together to make a "beautiful building," Donald Trump wrote in "The Art of the Deal."Robert attended Boston University before getting a job on Wall Street. Later, he became executive vice president of the Trump Organization.In 1984, he married Blaine Beard. He adopted Christopher, her son from a previous marriage.The couple was relatively private, though Blaine Trump did fundraising for organizations including the American Ballet Theatre and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.They were married for 25 years but went through a lengthy, public divorce amid allegations of Robert's affair with Ann Marie Pallan, an employee of the Trump Organization, according to his obituary. Robert Trump and Pallan married in 2020.Despite a previously strained relationship with his brother Donald, the two eventually made up. When Donald Trump first ran for president, Robert Trump supported him.In 2020, Robert Trump unsuccessfully tried to block the publication of Mary Trump's book, "Too Much And Never Enough," saying she was violating a confidentiality agreement she entered into while settling the dispute over Fred Trump, Sr.'s estate.Robert Trump died in 2020 at the age of 71."He was not just my brother, he was my best friend," Donald Trump said in a statement at the time.Donald Trump has been married three times. His relationships and marriages were often the subject of tabloid fodder in the 1980s and '90s.In 1949, Ivana Marie Zelníčková was born in Zlín, Czech Republic, formerly Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia. Ivana Trump skied as a child, even joining the Czech junior national team. She received a master's degree in physical education from Charles University in Prague in 1972.Later, she said her short-lived marriage to Alfred Winklmayr, an Austrian ski instructor, helped her get an Austrian passport and move to Canada. The marriage ended in 1973.Ivana met Donald Trump in 1976 and married him within a year. She became a US citizen in 1988.The former model began pursuing her interior design license. Soon, she took on the role of vice president for interior design for the Trump Organization.Thanks to her mathematical skills, Vanity Fair in 1988 called her a "platinum-blond computer." Known for her work ethic, she rode around in a helicopter several days a week and kept busy late into the night.Ivana had three children with her then husband, Donald: Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric.She told the writer Dominick Dunne, "In fifty years Donald and I will be considered old money like the Vanderbilts," Vanity Fair reported in 1990.In 1989, Ivana had a public confrontation with Marla Maples during an Aspen vacation. Maples was having an affair with Donald Trump at the time.Ivana and Donald Trump divorced a year later, though it took longer to settle the terms. During a deposition related to the divorce, Ivana said Donald had raped her. In a 1993 statement, she said she didn't mean rape in a "literal or criminal sense."In 2015, she also said the "story is totally without merit," saying that she and her ex-husband were the best of friends. The same year, a spokesperson for Donald Trump's campaign said in a statement, "This is an event that has been widely reported on in the past, it is old news, and it never happened."Following the highly publicized divorce, Ivana occasionally stepped back into the spotlight. She developed clothing and jewelry lines for QVC and made a cameo in the 1996 movie "The First Wives Club," delivering her advice to divorcing women: "Don't get mad. Get everything."After her split with Donald Trump, Ivana married and divorced twice more. In 2017, she released "Raising Trump," an autobiography of bringing up her children.In 2022, 73-year-old Ivana Trump died after she fell down some stairs in her home."She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life," Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social post following her death.Marla Maples was born in Georgia in 1963. In 1981, she attended the University of Georgia but left before graduating. Maples moved to New York City in 1985 to pursue acting, appearing in an episode of the soap opera "Another World" in 1987 and on "Dallas" in 1989.She gave various dates for when she first met Donald Trump. In 1990, their relationship made headlines as Donald Trump was splitting from his first wife, Ivana.Maples publicly apologized to Ivana Trump in 2016, but the overture wasn't accepted. "She actively participated in humiliating me in the media and indirectly put my kids at risk for months," Ivana Trump wrote in "Raising Trump."After Donald and Ivana divorced, he and Maples had an on-again, off-again relationship. In 1993, Maples gave birth to their daughter, Tiffany. She and Donald married soon after. Maples signed both a prenup and a confidentiality agreement, Vanity Fair reported in 2019.Throughout the '90s, Maples had bit parts on TV shows, including "Designing Women," "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," "Clueless," and "The Nanny," sometimes appearing as herself. She also performed on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2016.In 1997, Trump and Maples separated. Maples and Tiffany moved to California. Their divorce was finalized in 1999.Maples recently appeared at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s controversial confirmation hearing when he joined Trump's cabinet as health secretary.Born Melanija Knavs in 1970, Melania Trump is from Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia, which is now part of Slovenia."My elegant and hardworking mother, Amalija, introduced me to fashion and beauty," Melania said in her speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention.When Melania was a teenager, the photographer Stane Jerko scouted her. She later left architecture school and continued modeling. Around this time, she also changed the spelling of her last name to Knauss. The 5'11 model moved to the US in 1996.Two years later, 28-year-old Melania met Donald Trump at a party at the Kit Kat Club in the midst of his divorce from Marla Maples.Melania and Trump wed in 2005 and their son, Barron, was born the next year. Melania also got her citizenship in 2006.During Donald Trump's first presidential campaign in 2016, Melania only infrequently campaigned with him or gave interviews. When he was elected, she became the first naturalized citizen to become the first lady of the US.Instead of moving into the White House in 2017, she Melania stayed in New York City because she didn't want to take Barron out of school in the middle of the year.As first lady, Melania created Be Best, a campaign promoting children's health and combating online bullying. After some of her fashion choices provoked criticism, she told "Good Morning America," "I could say that I'm the most bullied person in the world."In 2018, several different news stories broke involving the couple's relationship. The adult film star Stormy Daniels and the Playboy model Karen McDougal both said they had affairs with Donald Trump shortly after Barron was born in 2006, which he denied.After the Stormy Daniels story, Melania Trump canceled a trip to Davos, Switzerland, and her public appearances became more infrequent.Leading up to and throughout Trump's first presidency, several women came forward with allegations of sexual assault or misconduct over more than 40 years, all of which Donald Trump has denied. Two Trump lawsuits are related to these allegations and involve E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of defamation in 2019 and 2022.In 2024, Melania released her self-titled memoir, "Melania."In the book, she wrote about several snafus and scandals, including her defunct skincare line and the jacket she wore during a visit to a government-run immigration facility with "I really don't care, do u?" written on the back.During her husband's second term as president, Melania attended events including his inauguration and his speech before a joint session of Congress.Donald Trump has five children from his three marriages.Donald and Ivana Trump's oldest child is Donald Trump Jr., who was born in 1977. While the couple were still married, both worked long hours and had two nannies plus a bodyguard for the children, Vanity Fair reported in 1990.Once his parents split up, Donald Jr. and his siblings lived with Ivana. "I made the decisions about their education, activities, travel, childcare and allowances," she wrote in "Raising Trump." She insisted that her children get jobs, for example.He went to boarding school in Pennsylvania before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School in 2000. Soon after, he joined the Trump Organization.Appearances on "The Apprentice," his father's reality show, helped bring Donald Jr. into the spotlight.In 2004, 26-year-old Donald Jr. proposed to the model Vanessa Haydon at a mall in front of reporters.The two married at Mar-a-Lago in 2005. Before Vanessa Trump filed for divorce in 2018, she and Donald Jr. had five children together.In 2020, Donald Jr. became engaged to the former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle. They split in 2024. Despite the breakup, the president nominated Guilfoyle to become ambassador to Greece in 2024. Donald Jr. was seen with model and influencer Bettina Anderson soon after.During Donald Trump's first term as president, Donald Jr. and his brother Eric took control of the Trump Organization, which raised legal and ethical questions about how the company would deal with foreign governments and anyone with a vested interest in policy decisions.The family's 2024 crypto venture, which Donald Jr. is involved in, could also cause conflicts of interest, ethics experts said.In 2022, the New York attorney general's office brought a civil fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump, and Donald Jr. was also named. He received a lighter penalty than his father but the court ordered him to pay $4 million.In recent years, Donald Jr. has become more involved in politics. He pushed for his friend JD Vance to become his father's running mate in the 2024 election. He also invited some of his father's political allies onto his podcast, "Triggered with Don Jr."In 1981, Donald and Ivana welcomed a daughter, Ivana Marie. She was named after her mother but uses the nickname Ivanka.As a teenager, Ivanka attended Choate Rosemary Hall, a Connecticut boarding school. At 14, she started modeling. Throughout the late '90s, she walked in fashion shows. She was on the cover of Seventeen in May 1997.For college, she briefly went to Georgetown University before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania and earning a degree in economics.In 2003, she appeared in a friend's documentary, "Born Rich," about the young heirs of wealthy families including the Bloombergs and Vanderbilts. In the film, she said she always wanted to go into real estate development and preferred getting Lego blocks to Barbie dolls as a child.She joined the Trump Organization in 2005. A year later, she started appearing on "The Apprentice" in its fifth season.In 2007, she opened a boutique to sell her diamond jewelry, and she then launched a clothing line a few years later. Nordstrom and other retailers sold her designs, which were aimed at young businesswomen.Ivanka met Jared Kushner, the son of the real estate developer Charles Kushner, in 2007. Kushner was raised in a Modern Orthodox Jewish family, and Ivanka converted to Judaism before their marriage in 2009. They have three children together.Ivanka stepped away from her fashion business after her father became president, but retailers started dropping her line, citing poor sales. In 2018, Ivanka's brand shut down.Both Ivanka and her husband had prominent roles in the White House during Doland Trump's first presidency. During their time in the administration, they received backlash for some of their actions.For example, Ivanka tweeted an endorsement for Goya brand products (a potential ethics violation), and Kushner led the administration's Middle East policy despite lacking sufficient expertise, critics said.In 2023, Ivanka testified at her father's civil fraud trial. She was originally named as a defendant in the case but was dismissed on statute of limitation grounds.During Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, Ivanka said she'd move away from politics, though she still supported her father. She attended his inauguration in 2025.Eric Trump, who was born in 1984, is Donald Trump's youngest child with Ivana, and was only 6 when his parents separated. He attended the same Pennsylvania boarding school as Donald Jr.In 2006, Eric graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in finance and management. He shares the title of Trump Organization executive vice president with his brother Donald Jr.A year after graduating, he started the Eric Trump Foundation, which raised millions of dollars for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The charity held tournaments at the Trump National Golf Club.Initially, the club hosted the events for free then charged the foundation hundreds of thousands of dollars, Forbes reported in 2017. This may have been at odds with federal and state rules and laws.In 2012, a "Celebrity Apprentice" sponsor withdrew support after photos of Donald Jr. and Eric hunting elephants and other animals in Zimbabwe surfaced.Like Donald Jr., Eric was named in his father's civil fraud lawsuit and was ordered to pay $4 million.After his father's first term as president, Eric was involved in his reelection campaigns. His wife, Lara Trump, took on more political roles in recent years. In late 2024, there was some speculation that she might replace Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, but she withdrew her name from consideration.Eric and Lara Trump have been married since 2014 and have two children together.Marla Maples gave birth to Tiffany Trump in 1993. She's the only child from her mother's marriage to Donald Trump.After her parents' divorce, Tiffany went to live with her mother in Calabasas, California. It meant she didn't see her father as often as her older siblings.As a teen, Tiffany released a single, "Like a Bird," but attended the University of Pennsylvania instead of pursuing a musical career. During college, she hung out with other socialites and garnered an Instagram following while posting about vacations on Greek islands and in the Hamptons.In 2016, she gave a speech at the Republican National Convention but didn't have a role in the White House during Donald Trump's first presidential term. Instead, she enrolled at Georgetown Law School, with Secret Service agents in tow. She graduated in 2020.Tiffany didn't speak at the 2024 Republican National Convention, and she's not expected to be involved in her father's second term.But her husband's father, Massad Boulos, has been tapped to serve as a senior advisor on Middle Eastern affairs.Tiffany met Michael Boulos in 2018. In 2022, the pair married at Mar-a-Lago. The couple has confirmed their first child is due in 2025.Donald and Melania Trump share one child, Barron Trump, who was born in 2006. At 6-foot-7, he's also the tallest of Trump's children. As a toddler, he frequently talked to his mother and maternal grandparents in Slovenian.Most of Barron's siblings were adults when he was born. He's closer in age to many of his nieces and nephews than to Ivana's children. For the first part of his childhood, he lived in Trump Tower.When Barron was 10, his father was elected president. He finished the school year in New York before moving into the White House in 2017. Barron transferred to a high school in Palm Beach, Florida, after his father's first term ended.During his father's 2024 presidential campaign, Barron was more visible than he'd been as a child. He attended one of his father's rallies in Florida and was invited to be an at-large delegate for Florida at the Republican National Convention. Melania Trump's office quickly announced that Barron had a prior engagement and couldn't attend.In 2024, he started his first year at New York University. He lived in Trump Tower instead of the dorms.There are 10 Trump grandchildren. Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric all have kids, and Tiffany is pregnant with her first child.Donald Trump's eldest grandchild is Kai Trump. The daughter of Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump was born in May 2007. The teenage golf enthusiast spoke at the 2024 Republican National Convention and attended her grandfather's inauguration in 2025.Donald Jr. and Vanessa Trump share four other children: Donald Trump III, Tristan, Spencer, and Chloe. They were born between 2009 and 2014.Ivanka and Jared have three children. Their first child, Arabella Kushner, was born in 2011. Joseph followed in 2013, and Theodore arrived in 2016.Following family tradition, Eric Trump named his first son after himself. Eric Luke, born in 2017, goes by his middle name. His sister, Carolina, was born two years later.Tiffany Trump is expecting her first child in 2025.