Donald Trump suggested his father might not be in heaven while speaking at a campaign rally in Macon, Georgia, on Sunday.
“My father’s looking down—probably he’s looking down. But my mother is definitely looking down. My father, you know, a little questionable,” the Republican presidential nominee said, adding, “No, he was a tough guy, but he was a great guy and a good guy.”
He made the comment at the end of his speech, shortly after complaining that he had been treated worse than any president in U.S. history and even worse than the famed gangster Al Capone.
“I got treated worse than Alphonse Capone, one of the greatest killers in the world. Scarface. My father is looking down,” he said in the same breath.
The former president has previously speculated about his father’s fate in the afterlife. He made the same comment at a rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on Wednesday, and at a rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden October 26, making this at least the third time he has mentioned it in a week.
Former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Macon, Georgia, on November 3. At the rally, Trump suggested his father might not be in heaven. Former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Macon, Georgia, on November 3. At the rally, Trump suggested his father might not be in heaven. ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images
Fred Trump, a real estate developer born in New York to German immigrant parents, died in 1999. He played a major role in building his family’s wealth and property empire.
He was known for his tough leadership style and was similarly tough in his family life, according to his granddaughter Mary Trump.
Mary Trump, a trained psychologist who has become a fierce critic of her uncle, described her grandfather as a “high-functioning sociopath” in her 2020 tell-all book about the family.
She said that the more Donald Trump and his brother Robert Trump sought their father’s affection, “the more Fred Sr. rebuffed them.”
The author said these dynamics had a major effect in shaping the future president’s personality.
“The personality traits that resulted—displays of narcissism, bullying, grandiosity—finally made my grandfather take notice but not in a way that ameliorated any of the horror that had come before,” she wrote.
Mary Trump also wrote that her grandmother, also called Mary Trump, had to undergo an emergency hysterectomy when her uncle was a child, leading to her being absent from his life at a crucial developmental stage, further affecting his psyche.
Newsweek contacted Donald Trump’s presidential campaign for comment via email outside regular working hours.
The former president’s rally in Macon was his third on Sunday, as part of a final effort to court voters in swing states.
Polls show the Republican and Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic opponent, remain neck and neck a day before the election.
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