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Unfortunately, it is the wrong one.
(CNN)Robert Trump, 72, the younger brother of President Donald Trump, died Saturday at a New York hospital, Donald Trump announced in a statement.
"It 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. 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," the President said.
Donald Trump made a last minute decision to go to New York Friday to visit his brother as he headed to New Jersey for the weekend.
Robert Trump had been admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.
Details of Robert Trump's illness have not been released. He had been sick for several months, a person familiar with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
Yeah. Donnie wrote that statement, and my neighbor's dog wrote War and Peace.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)what the actual EF?
rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)Obviously, it's time for a checkup.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)👍
rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)msongs
(67,389 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)So they have more time to work with him.
dweller
(23,625 posts)it claims it had a best friend ... and he's dead, so can't deny it
✌🏼
Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)WhiskeyWulf
(569 posts)SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Patterson
(1,529 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Grammy23
(5,810 posts)First, it has some punctuation and isnt laced with all caps.
Second, it exhibits a show of normal feelings of grief. The man is devoid of feelings except rage/anger. Normally, hed be mad at his brother for taking the attention away from him. Imagine the nerve of that guy to die and divert our eyes to someone else.
TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts).
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)😳🤯
Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)priorities
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Guessing don the con was jealous of his bro because bro was a bit taller. 🤣
Ty for confirming, btw.
Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)try and stop Mary's book. Lawsuit flopped, so what use did he have for Robert? None. Sitting by your dying brother's bed? BORING. Much more satisfying and fun to go play some rounds with a line of chumps just salivating, waiting to tell him how clever and exactly right he always is.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I'm sure that is exactly his thought process.
GoCubsGo
(32,078 posts)madaboutharry
(40,203 posts)and was such a best friend that when Fred Trump had Alzheimers Disease, Donald Trump tried to get Fred to change his will, cut all the siblings out, and leave everything to Donald.
This sad story is in Mary Trumps book.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)He sure did!
doc03
(35,324 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)He is functionally illiterate and completely lacking empathy, the latter consistent with his personality disorder.
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)...it is Covid 19 related causes which would really be embarrassing to the president.
Maru Kitteh
(28,333 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Same thought here!
And a really nasty case of it, as he was hospitalized in ICU for about a week previously.
Loryn
(943 posts)I am sure 45 is devastated.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,578 posts)There is no mention of how Robert had predicted his brother would one day be one of the greatest -- if not the greatest -- presidents.
There is no mention of how much Robert admired his brother.
He doesn't offer sympathy to Robert's wife, Ann Marie Pallan.
He doesn't call Robert a cute name, like "Dumbo-Bob."
Here's what Mary Trump wrote in her book about the relationship between the two brothers:
Donald had discovered early on how easy it was to get under Roberts pale skin and push him past his limits; it was a game he never tired of playing, Mary Trump wrote. Nobody else would have bothered Robert was so skinny and quiet that there was no sport in tormenting him.
Robert's lucky that his hospital was located between the WH and the golf club, so Trump could drop by enroute the the country club mini-rally and say goodbye.
Of course, knowing Trump that last statement could be a lie to make himself look good.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I really can't. Trump thinks of himself as immortal and would never say something like that.
Of course, when I read that line, all I could think of was "Hopefully soon!"
JI7
(89,244 posts)and destroying and killing other lives.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Isn't that always his claim?
Johnny2X2X
(19,023 posts)So sad.
Thekaspervote
(32,751 posts)malaise
(268,885 posts)but we knew he was dying because the Con showed up. He couldn't handle the press after what Mary said about Fred dying alone.
North Shore Chicago
(3,311 posts)My blood pressure nearly went down to normal. pffffft