Claim: Fred Trump's dad was a German-American.
Evidence: Frederick Christ Trump -LRB- October 11 , 1905 -- June 25 , 1999 -RRB- was an American real estate developer and philanthropist , primarily in New York City , and father of Donald Trump , the 45th President of the United States , and Maryanne Trump Barry , a United States Court of Appeals judge.
Born in Kallstadt , in the Kingdom of Bavaria -LRB- now in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany -RRB- , he emigrated to the United States at the age of 16 and started working as a barber.