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looking back at his influential older brother Fred Trump, Jr. 0
Oh, and the time he joined aJewish fraternity.

Arriving at Lehigh University in Pennsylvaniafrom a casually Presbyterian family and

with time at an Episcopalian boys' prep school under his belt, Trump Jr. decided to join

Sigma Alpha Mu, a historically Jewish fraternity, according to David Cay Johnston's

"The Making of Donald Trump."

Several former fraternity brothers told

The New York Times earlier this year
that they remembered "Freddy"
claiming that his father, real-estate
magnate Fred Trump Sr., was actually the
Jewish son of German immigrants.

Trump Sr. and Trump Jr., who share the

middle name Christ, are not Jewish. But
Trump J r.'s middle name did lead to
many jokes among his Jewish fraternity
brothers, which Trump J r. apparently
found hilarious.

His middle name was about all Trump.),

shared with his father. Johnston writes in
"The Making of Donald Trump"that

Frederick Trump Trump Jr. and his father did not seethe

markerine landlord business the same way, and that

Trump Sr. heavily criticized his son
during his involvement In the family's
first Trump-branded project, Trump
Village in Coney Island, New York.

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