Fred C. Trump III, grandson of former President Donald J. Trump and older brother of Mary Trump, will publish a memoir about the Trump family, according to his publisher, Simon & Schuster.
The memoir, titled “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way,” will be released July 30 by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster — just a few months before the 2024 presidential election, in which former President Trump is running as the presumptive Republican nominee against President Joe Biden.
Gallery described the memoir as a “candid and revealing” account of what it was like growing up in the Trump family, and noted that the book will include “never-before-told stories” that will shed “a light into the darkest corner of life.” the Trump empire.”
The publisher further said that Trump was motivated to tell his family’s story because of the upcoming election and suggested that his book could “influence a nation’s decision.”
It was unclear to what extent “All in the Family” would focus on former President Trump, or in what light. The Gallery declined to share further information about the book beyond a brief description.
Fred Trump III, who has remained largely out of the public eye and has not been an outspoken critic of the former president, declined to be interviewed, according to his publisher.
The memoirs will add another layer to the Trump family’s complex and often combative saga. Fred and Mary Trump are the children of the former president’s older brother, Fred Trump Jr., who suffered from alcoholism and died of a heart attack in 1981. After their grandfather Fred Trump Sr. died in 1999, Mary and Fred Trump filed of a lawsuit challenging his will, claiming that they had been cheated out of their inheritance by their father’s brothers.
As the legal battle heated up, Donald Trump and his brothers cut financial aid intended for medical expenses for Fred Trump III’s son, William, who was born with an acute medical condition and diagnosed with developmental and intellectual disabilities. (The dispute was resolved in 2001.) In “All in the Family,” Fred Trump III will write about how that rivalry threatened the health and safety of his disabled son, according to Gallery.
Fred Trump III, who joined the family commercial real estate business, distanced himself from his sister’s best-selling 2020 memoir, “Too Much and Never Enough,” which told the damning inside story of his family’s history. Donald Trump and deepened the rifts within the family. The book claimed, among other things, that the former president paid someone to take the SAT test for college admissions and considered “cheating as a way of life.”
In a statement about the book released by the Trump family in 2020, Fred Trump III said that “my wife, children and I have a strong relationship with our extended family and had no involvement or interest in the preparation of this book” . Mary Trump’s memoir was also published by Simon & Schuster and sold more than 1.3 million copies in its first week on sale. Her follow-up, “Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir,” will be released in September and will focus primarily on her relationship with her father.
Until now, Fred Trump III has remained largely out of the fray, which makes the arrival of his memoirs, just months before the November election, something of a surprise.
With this publication, Simon & Schuster aims to continue an often profitable series of Trump memoirs, including books by the president’s supporters. In addition to Mary Trump’s memoir, the company published a bombshell book by John R. Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, a memoir by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend and advisor to Trump’s wife , Melania, and a memoir by former Vice President Mike Pence. Through his conservative imprint, Threshold Editions, he published books by Kellyanne Conway, who served as a senior adviser in Trump’s White House, and before the 2016 presidential election, he published Trump’s campaign book, “Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again.”
While the last presidential election was full of books detailing Trump’s inner circle, there have been fewer this cycle.
Gallery said Fred Trump III worked to keep his immediate family out of the political spotlight, until he felt he couldn’t. “Silence is golden only when there is nothing to say,” he writes in the book.
[New York Times except tweaked headline]
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