Donald Trump’s brother, Fred Trump Jr., lived an unfulfilled and tragic life, resulting in his death at 42. Per The New York Times, Fred Jr. was obsessed with aviation from childhood. After graduating, he worked as a realtor until the pressure from his controlling father, Fred Trump Sr., became too much. So, Fred Jr. became a TWA pilot. He married a flight attendant, and they welcomed two kids, Fred and Mary Trump.
However, Donald and Fred Sr. had different plans for the free-spirited airman; they wanted him to do something biglyer. “Come on, Freddy, what are you doing? You’re wasting your time,” Donald reportedly told him, according to The Washington Post. Meanwhile, Fred Sr. claimed working as a pilot was akin to being “a chauffeur in the sky.” The two insisted instead that Fred Jr. return to the family business.
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Fred Jr.’s frat brothers remembered him as a fun-loving guy who was “the campus jokester” and the polar opposite of his younger brother. “He was as far from Donald’s personality as you can get,” Fred Jr.’s pal Mel Bergstein said. However, he turned to alcohol as he struggled with his family’s demands to ditch happiness in pursuit of cold, hard cash. Three of Fred Jr.’s fellow TWA pilots claimed they noticed his alcohol intake increase as the stress he was under from his father and brother increased. Ultimately, TWA fired Fred Jr., so he towed the party line and spiraled into a life of misery and alcoholism.
