The president is expected to visit his 72-year-old brother at a hospital in Manhattan on Friday, according to a White House spokesman, Judd Deere. Trump was already scheduled to visit his property in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday.
The White House did not immediately release details about why Robert Trump had been hospitalized, but officials said that he was seriously ill.
Trump “has a very good relationship with his brother who is very special to him”, Deere said.
Robert Trump, one of four siblings to the president, recently filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family seeking to stop publication of a tell-all book by the president’s niece Mary titled Too Much and Never Enough.
The president has said that Mary Trump’s book was a violation of a non-disclosure agreement she signed in connection with a financial settlement she received from the Trump family. Mary is the daughter of the brothers’ eldest sibling, Fred Trump Jr, who struggled with alcoholism and died in 1981 at the age of 43.
