Donald Trump did not want to give his name to his son Donald Jr, for fear that he would be "a loser"
Donald Trump's eldest son has the exact same surname as his father. But Donald Trump Jr. almost called himself otherwise. The current president of the United States was indeed afraid that it would not be up to it.
In the great American dynasties, parents are very fond of giving the eldest son the same first name as the father. A means of perpetuating the surname but also a very narcissistic projection of the patriarch who no doubt hopes he will take up the torch. However, Donald Trump was reluctant to give his to his eldest son.
After meeting in 1976, Donald Trump and his first wife Ivana Trump gave birth to their first child on December 31, 1977, a boy who goes by the name of Donald Trump Junior. Yet in her memoirs, Ivana confided that her ex-husband was not really very happy that her son had the same first name as him. And it was not with the idea of protecting his son. The reason is much more selfish than that. Ivana explains, in fact in her autobiography Raising Trump, that when she told him about her idea of calling him Donald Trump Junior, the response of the man who is now the 45th President of the United States was categorical: "You can't do that! What if he's a 'loser'? " Donald Trump was just afraid that his son would not live up to his surname and did not want him to shame him.
Donald Trump is no doubt now reassured since his eldest son seems to resemble him a lot ... And after having actively participated in the presidential campaign for which he is also suspected of collusion with Russia, he took over the management of the company family after the election of his father. The one who announced his divorce last June with his wife, the ex-model Vanessa Haydon and mother of their five children, shares with Donald Trump the same immoderate taste for social networks.
