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Is Donald Trump Jewish? Genetics, Memory, and the Perils of Internet Genealogy Every election cycle—and every speculative surge in digital assets—brings its own wave of identity rumors. This week’s trending question, “ Is Trump Jewish ?” sits squarely in that tradition : less about history, more about how quickly symbolism hardens into supposed fact. The short answer is no . Donald J. Trump is not Jewish by religion, upbringing, or documented ancestry . The longer answer, however, is more revealing—not about him specifically, but about how ancestry, genetics, and cultural signaling are routinely misunderstood. Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, was born in 1912 on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Her lineage is well documented as Scottish Gaelic, a population with deep roots in the British Isles. Like many Europeans , Scots share traces of ancient migration patterns that passed through Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Near East tens of thousands o...