Donald Trump’s Nephew, Whose Son Has ‘Severe’ Disabilities, Asks ‘Where Has This Country Gone?’ After Uncle Uses the R-Word

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• Donald Trump’s nephew, Fred Trump III, fired back at his uncle for using “hurtful” language in a recent social media post

• During his Truth Social diatribe on immigration on Thanksgiving night, Trump specifically targeted Somali people in Minnesota and called the state’s governor, Tim Walz, a “serious moron.”

• Days later, Fred Trump III wrote to

Donald Trump‘s nephew, Fred TrumpIIItakes shots at his uncle for using “hurtful” language in a recent social media post.

late one night Real Social In his speech on Thursday, November 27, Donald sarcastically criticized “citizens” and “patriots” who he claimed were “just stupid” when it came to immigration.

HE has a special purpose in the Somali community in Minnesota and the state’s governor, former Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim WalzIn the Thanksgiving night post.

“Seriously moronic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz does nothing out of fear, incompetence, or both,” the president wrote.

Days later he I doubled the comment Talking to reporters aboard Air Force One. When a journalist noted that “many Americans found [‘retarded’ to be] It’s an offensive word,” Donald, 79, shook his head.

“Yes, I definitely think there is something wrong with him, for sure,” he replied. “I think there’s something wrong with him.”

Fred on Sunday, November 20 wrote to x“As a parent of a severely disabled young adult, the use of the ‘R’ word is completely unacceptable and deeply hurtful. Where has this country gone that we have to discuss this?”

Fred’s 26-year-old son, William, was born with the KCNQ2 mutation, “a genetic misfire that doctors call a potassium channel deletion.” He is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair.

Fred, 63, the son of Donald’s late older brother Fred Trump Jr., released a memoir last year in which he accused his uncle of using racist language (including using the n-word) when talking to family members and also told Fred that his disabled son would be better off dead.

In the book, All in the Family: Trumps and How We Got This WayFred provided details of a May 2020 meeting with his uncle, who was then in his first term as president of the United States. What he thought would be a “quick handshake hello” turned into a “45-minute discussion in the Oval Office” with disability advocates and then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.

“I think [Donald] He was touched by what the doctors and advocates at the meeting had just shared about their journeys with their patients and their own family members. But I was wrong,” wrote Fred.

He claimed that his uncle told him, “These people… The situation they are in, all the expenses, maybe such people should die.”

In another anecdote, Fred described visiting his uncle at Briarcliff Mansion, home of Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, NY, later that year. He told the president they “might need some help” financially, bringing up his son’s medical fund, which Donald has contributed to in the past.

According to Fred, Donald brushed him off once again, saying, “I don’t know. He doesn’t know you. Maybe you should let him die and move to Florida.”

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At the time of the book’s publication, Donald’s spokesman Steven Cheung said the allegations were false and claimed without evidence that all such reports had been “debunked.”

“This is completely fabricated and fake news of the highest order,” Cheung said in a statement to PEOPLE. “This is a lie so blatantly disgusting that it could be published in the media. Anyone who knows President Trump knows he would never use language like this, and false stories like this have been completely debunked.”

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