Mary Anne MacLeod Trump

Mary Anne Trump (; May 10, 1912 – August 7, 2000) was a Scottish and American socialite and philanthropist who was the wife of American real-estate developer Fred Trump and the mother of five children, including Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States.

Born a native Scottish Gaelic–speaker in the Outer Hebrides, MacLeod emigrated to the United States in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in March 1942. She raised five children with her husband and lived in New York City. Raised in a Gaelic-speaking household, she was the youngest of ten children born to Gaelic Scottish parents, Mary MacLeod (; 1867–1963) and Malcolm MacLeod (1866–1954). Her father was a crofter, fisherman, and compulsory officer at Mary's school. English was her second language, which she learned at the school she attended until secondary school. According to one genealogical account, displaced families in Mary's village lived in "human wretchedness" while nearby farmable land was used for sheep. Local historians have said properties at the time were "indescribably filthy", and that families in the area lived austere lives as fishers, farmers and peat diggers. The outbreak of weakened the area's economy and reduced the male population further.

Arriving in the U.S. with $50 (equivalent to $945 in 2024), MacLeod lived with her older sister, Christina Matheson in Astoria, Queens and worked as a domestic servant for at least four years. She was recorded as living in New York by April 1935 in the 1940 U.S. census. MacLeod returned to her home area in Scotland often during the course of her life and spoke Gaelic when she did.

Marriage, family and activities In the mid-1930s, while Mary Anne was living with her sister in Queens, she met Fred Trump—already a property developer and builder—at a party; on a subsequent visit to Scotland, she told her family that she had met her future husband. They married at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church on the Upper East Side on January 11, 1936, with George Arthur Buttrick officiating. The wedding reception for 25 guests was held at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. The final birth led to an emergency hysterectomy, which Mary Anne barely survived. By 1940 they had become upwardly mobile and hired a Scottish maid. According to family biographer Harry Hurt III, MacLeod spent time collecting coins from laundry machines in apartment buildings owned by the family; this has also been claimed by MacLeod's children about Fred Trump's mother as well as by Donald about himself.

MacLeod raised her children in the Presbyterian faith of her upbringing; on January 20, 2017, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump took his inaugural oath of office using a copy of the Revised Standard Version Bible given to him by his mother in 1955 when he graduated from a Presbyterian Sunday school. MacLeod drove a Rolls-Royce with the vanity plates that bore her initials, "MMT". MacLeod also belonged to several social clubs.

Later life and death As she grew older, MacLeod suffered from severe osteoporosis. A bread-truck driver named Lawrence Herbert apprehended her 16-year-old assailant, for which Herbert was later rewarded by Donald Trump with a check that kept him from losing his home to foreclosure. Her assailant later pleaded guilty to robbery and assault, and was sentenced to three to nine years in prison.

Macleod's husband, Fred Trump, died at age 93 on June 25, 1999, after falling ill with pneumonia. MacLeod died one year later on August 7, 2000, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, at age 88. Services were held at Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, and she was buried alongside her husband and son (Fred Jr.) at Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens. The death notice in her Scottish hometown newspaper, the Stornoway Gazette, read: "Peacefully in New York on 7th August, Mary Ann Trump, aged 88 years. Daughter of the late Malcolm and Mary MacLeod, 5 Tong. Much missed."

In popular culture She is played by Catherine McNally in the 2024 film The Apprentice.