Donald Trump is the son of a Scotswoman, Mary Anne MacLeod, from the hebridean Island of Lewis, off the west coast of Scotland. His mother was brought up in a thatched croft and emigrated to America in 1930 on aboard SS Transylvania and met and married Frederick Trump, of German origin when she was a domestic servant.

Mary Anne was born in the village of Tong, in the parish of Stornoway on 10th May 1912, to a fisherman named Malcolm MacLeod and his wife, Mary Smith. This couple had been married in 1891 and both were Gaelic speakers..