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Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump III fires back after his uncle used ‘hurtful’ language in recent social media posts
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On Thanksgiving night, Trump went on an immigration diatribe on the website Truth Social, specifically targeting Somalis in Minnesota and calling the state’s governor, Tim Walz, “a severe retard.”
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A few days later, Fred Trump III wrote on
Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump III is firing back at his uncle for using “hurtful” language in a recent social media post.
During a late-night episode of Truth Social on Thursday, November 27, Donald sarcastically criticized “citizens” and “patriots” who he claimed were “just plain stupid” when it came to immigration.
His Thanksgiving night post specifically targeted Minnesota’s Somali community and the state’s governor, former Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz.
“The severely retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, has taken no action, either out of fear, incompetence, or both,” the president wrote.
Days later, he reiterated that comment while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One. When one reporter noted that “many Americans do find [‘retarded’ to be] It’s an offensive word,” Donald, 79, nodded.
“Yeah, I think there’s something wrong with him, absolutely, of course,” he replied. “I think there’s something wrong with him.”
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Donald Trump speaks to the media aboard Air Force One on November 30, 2025
On Sunday, November 20, Fred wrote on
Fred’s 26-year-old son William was born with a KCNQ2 mutation, “a genetic malfunction that doctors call a potassium channel deficiency.” He is nonverbal and uses a wheelchair.
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Fred Trump and his son William
Fred, 63, the son of Donald’s late brother Fred Trump Jr., published a memoir last year in which he accused his uncle of using racist language in conversations with family members, including using the word “nigger,” and telling Fred that his disabled son would be better off dead.
In the book, All About the Family: The Ace Family and How We Got HereFred detailed a meeting with his uncle in May 2020, when he was serving his first term as President of the United States. What he thought was a “quick handshake and hello” turned into a “45-minute discussion in the Oval Office” with Alex Azar, a disability rights advocate and then-Health and Human Services Secretary.
“I thought [Donald] I was deeply moved by what the doctors and advocates at the conference just shared about their journeys with their patients and families. But I was wrong,” Fred wrote.
He claimed his uncle told him, “Those people…their condition, all the expenses, maybe those kind of people should die.”
In another anecdote, Fred recounted visiting his uncle later that year at Briarcliff Estate, home to Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, New York. He mentioned his son’s medical fund – which Donald has donated to in the past – telling the president they “might need some help financially.”
According to Fred, Donald rejected him again, saying, “I don’t know. He doesn’t know you. Maybe you should just let him die and move to Florida.”
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At the time of the book’s publication, Donald’s spokesman Stephen Chang called the allegations false and claimed without evidence that all such reports had been “debunked.”
“This is a complete fabrication and pure fake news of the highest order,” Zhang said in a statement to People. “This is an egregious lie so blatant and disgusting that it could be published in the media. Anyone who knows President Trump knows he would never use such language, and false stories like this have been thoroughly debunked.”
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