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Perhaps the sibling President Donald Trump talks about the most is his older brother, Fred Jr., who died in 1981 at 43 from complications with alcoholism. The eldest son of Fred and Mary Trump, Fred Jr. was initially intended to succeed his father as the head of the family business. But Freddy, as he was called by his friends and family, didn’t especially like real estate, and he quit to become a pilot for Trans-World Airlines. It was while working as a commercial pilot that he met his wife, Linda Clapp, a flight attendant, and the couple went on to have two children, named Fred and Mary after his parents.
