Everything we know about Trump’s ancestry after he pushed his rival’s into question

Donald Trump faced heavy criticism on Wednesday after questioning the heritage of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, while speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists.

“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” he said. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”

Harris’s father is from Jamaica and her mother was from India. The vice president said on Wednesday night that Trump’s comments were “the same old show” of “divisiveness and disrespect.”

That has sparked questions on the backgrounds of both candidates. Trump is one of five children of the real estate developer Fred Trump and the Scottish immigrant Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. The former president has five children with his three wives as well as 10 grandchildren.

Here is everything we know about Trump’s ancestry and immediate family.

Frederick Trump

Donald Trump’s paternal grandfather was born in 1869 in Kallstadt in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria. He immigrated to the US in 1885 before moving to the Yukon in Canada and operated a restaurant and brothel for Whitehorse miners, according to CBC News.

He returned to Kallstadt where he married Elisabeth Christ in 1902 but as he had allegedly left Bavaria to avoid conscription, he had been stripped of his citizenship and he subsequently went back to the US.

Frederick Trump moved his family to Queens, where he bought a number of properties before he died at the age of 49 in 1918 during the Spanish Influenza epidemic, according to Politico.

Elizabeth Christ Trump

Following her husband’s