{"id":16223,"date":"2020-08-16T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T10:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16223"},"modified":"2020-08-16T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T10:52:52","slug":"us-president-trump-brother-robert-trump-dies-in-age-of-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16223","title":{"rendered":"US President Trump brother Robert Trump dies in age of 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"medium-10 medium-offset-1 columns article-body\" data-epic-field=\"content\">US President Donald Trump&#8217;s younger brother Robert died\u00a0 after being hospitalized for an unknown illness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,&#8221; Mr Trump said in a White House statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old president had visited his brother on Friday at a hospital in New York, staying for about 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports that Robert Trump was seriously ill, but there were no details of illness.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Robert Trump, younger brother of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> has died. In a statement the US president said \u201cIt is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight. He was not just my brother, he was my best friend.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtenews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rtenews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/19724nlGh6\">pic.twitter.com\/19724nlGh6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian O&#39;Donovan (@BrianOD_News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianOD_News\/status\/1294825801129644033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, who was stopping in New York on the way to his golf club in nearby Bedminster, New Jersey for the weekend, told reporters Friday only that &#8220;he&#8217;s having a hard time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While not famous than his older brother, Robert Trump, who was born in 1948, had an integral part of the family real estate empire and was loyal to the president.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Trump unsuccessfully went to court to try to get an injunction preventing publication of a book by his niece Mary Trump, called &#8216;Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World&#8217;s Most Dangerous Man&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The book, which paints Donald Trump as the product of a &#8220;toxic&#8221; family was a &#8220;disgrace,&#8221; Robert Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Although a temporary restraining order was applied, a judge lifted this in July, allowing publication.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has previously called his brother &#8220;wonderful&#8221; and said they have &#8220;had a great relationship for a long time, from day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s daughter Ivanka paid tribute to her uncle on\u00a0Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Uncle Robert, we love you. You are in our hearts and prayers, always.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IvankaTrump\/status\/1294832833794641920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump&#8217;s younger brother Robert died\u00a0 after being hospitalized for an unknown illness. &#8220;It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,&#8221; Mr Trump said in a White House statement. &#8220;He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16225,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16223\/revisions\/16225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}