Fred Trump was a philanthropist in New York City.
 In the 1970s, Trump acquired up to 20% of Brooklyn's Starrett City, a large, federally subsidized housing complex which declared that 70% of its tenants would be white
 In 2018, in response to the New York Times expos on the Trumps, which revealed that Fred created 295 income streams for Donald, Jonathan Chait wrote for New York magazine that many of these were "illegal on their face", further arguing that "The English language has terms for people who make large sources of money from illegal activity: criminals

