Robert Trump, the youngest brother of President Donald Trump, has died aged 71, after becoming seriously ill at a New York City hospital.<br /><br />"It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight," Mr Trump said in a statement.<br /><br />"He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again.<br /><br />"His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace."<br />Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, died on Saturday night aged 71 after being hospitalised in New York, the president said in a statement.<br /><br />Trump on Friday visited his brother in hospital after White House officials said Robert had become seriously ill. Officials did not immediately release a cause of death.<br /><br />“It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” Donald Trump said in a statement. “He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace.”<br /><br />The youngest of the Trump siblings had remained close to the 74-year-old president and, as recently as June, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family that unsuccessfully sought to stop publication of a tell-all book by the president’s niece, Mary.<br /><br />Robert Trump had reportedly been hospitalised in the intensive care unit for several days that same month. He took blood thinners and had recently experienced brain bleeds after a fall, according to the New York Times.<br /><br />Both longtime businessmen, Robert and Donald had strikingly different personalities. Donald Trump once described his younger brother as “much quieter and easygoing than I am” and “the only guy in my life whom I ever call ‘honey’”.<br /><br />Robert Trump began his career on Wall Street working in corporate finance but later joined the family business, managing real estate holdings as a top executive in the Trump Organization.
