Trump Wasn't Born in Pakistan
The Claim
Former President Donald Trump was born in Pakistan.
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For the last several years, some on social media have suggested that former President Donald Trump was born in Pakistan. One of the posts was shared more than 10,000 times.
Misbar’s Analysis
MENA: It is difficult to determine where the rumor that Trump was born in Pakistan began, as several random news reports have been shared on social media. According to the Times of Israel, a Pakistani television network Neo News claimed the New Yorker was born in Pakistan: “Believe it or not, presidential candidate Donald Trump was born in Pakistan and not in America.” According to their report, Donald Trump was born as Dawood Ibrahim Khan in the now-Taliban-controlled Waziristan region of the country in 1954. After his parents were killed in a car accident, a British Indian Army captain took little Dawood to London, where the Trump family later adopted him and brought him to America, the report claimed.
However, Donald J. Trump was born in 1946 in the United States in Queens, New York according to his birth certificate.
Donald Trump was born to Fred and Mary Anne Trump according to BBC.com. His father made his fortune by building affordable housing for middle-income families along the U.S. east coast during and after World War Two. His mother came to the U.S. when she was 18 from the Scottish island of Lewis in search of domestic work.
