What Donald Trump Said at His Father’s Funeral Wasn’t the Real Story

New York, June 1999. Six hundred mourners gathered inside Marble Collegiate Church to bury Fred Trump, the man who had built 27,000 apartments and a family fortune. Then Donald Trump stood to deliver the eulogy. According to two people who later described the moment, he began talking about the greatest year of his own career—and an audible gasp moved through the room. But the speech was not the real story. Nine years earlier, during the worst financial crisis of Donald’s life, a lawyer carried a document to Fred Trump’s home. Donald wanted his father to sign it. Fred read it, refused and reportedly said it did not pass the smell test. Months later, a different will was signed. Donald became one of three executors, while the children of his dead older brother received none of the share their father might have inherited. This documentary follows the will, depositions, medical records, tax documents and family lawsuit that reveal what had already been decided long before anyone entered that church. The funeral lasted one morning. The paperwork had been shaping the Trump family for decades. #DonaldTrump #FredTrump #TrumpFamily