Mary Anne MacLeod Trump was born in 1912 on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis. She moved to the U.S. in 1930 during the Great Depression, hoping for a better life. In New York, she worked as a domestic servant before marrying Fred Trump, a real estate developer, in 1936. She became a U.S. citizen in 1942 and focused on raising her five children, including Donald Trump. A devout Presbyterian with strong Scottish heritage, she was elegant, charitable, and a quiet but significant influence in her family unt