Robert S. Trump, the Trump family’s unofficial spokesman and consigliere, is said to be gravely ill.
President Trump visited his younger brother, Robert S. Trump, on Friday at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Robert Trump,72, two years younger than the president, has been ailing for months and is said to be gravely ill. He was also hospitalized in June. “I have a wonderful brother,” the president said Friday during a news conference at the White House. “We’ve had a great relationship for a long time, from Day 1, a long time ago, and he’s in the hospital right now, and hopefully he’ll be all right.” But the president added that Robert Trump was “having a hard time.” Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, added in an email that “Robert is very special” to the president. She did not say why Robert Trump was in the hospital. Upon landing in New York City, Mr. Trump posted on Twitter that he was there to visit his brother, but he added a plug for his re-election campaign by attaching a photograph of the front page of The New York Post that featured an interview he gave to the newspaper. “We’re going for New York on November 3rd,” the president tweeted. He was at the hospital for just under an hour. As the youngest son in the strict household of Fred C. Trump, Robert Trump was shielded from some of the pressure exerted by his disciplinarian father over his older brothers. In “The Art of the Deal,” Donald Trump writes of stealing his younger brother’s blocks and gluing them together.
