Trump’s Childhood Home In Queens Hits The Auction Block

The childhood home of President Donald Trump in Queens, New York, is on the auction block after it failed to sell earlier this year as a traditional listing set at $2.9 million, triple the asking price of a similar home now for sale across the street.

Paramount Realty USA in New York on Tuesday began accepting sealed bids for the property in an auction that ends on Nov. 14. There’s a reserve, meaning a minimum amount the seller will accept. Both the reserve and the seller’s name have not been disclosed. To see pictures of the home’s interior, click here.

“The likely buyer is a Trump enthusiast who just wants to own the home where President Trump lived when he was born,” said Misha Haghani, the principal of the auction company. “Similarly, I would not be surprised at all to see an antagonist – a person or a crowdfunding group saying we’re going to buy the property to demolish it, or donate it to charity, or give it to an immigrant family.” 

The brick and stucco faux Tudor home built in 1940 by Fred Trump, the president’s father, has a living room, a dining room, a kitchen and a den on the first floor. Upstairs, there are two small bedrooms at the front of the house including one with a sign saying it was probably President Trump’s childhood room.

Also on the second floor, there’s a master suite with a sign that says: “In this bedroom President Donald J. Trump was likely conceived by his parents, Fred and Mary Trump. The world has never been the same.”

While some public descriptions of the 2,100-square-foot home put the number of bedrooms at five or even six, the floorplan shows three on the second floor and one in the basement. To reach the master bedroom, a visitor would walk through an anteroom that could be used as a dressing room, a sitting room, or a nursery, but it doesn’t qualify as a bedroom because it’s a walk-through.

Haghani has brokered the property twice in the last three years. Shortly after Trump won the election in 2016, an anonymous buyer purchased it for $1.39 million. About a month later, three days before Trump’s inauguration, it went under contract to another anonymous buyer for $2.14 million, Haghani said. In 2017 it was used temporarily as an Airbnb listing at $725 a night, with the description: “President Trump’s Childhood Home – Sleeps 20.”

If you want proof that it really was Trump’s home, you can ask Haghani for the birth certificate. The president who came to political prominence by promoting the false “birtherism” theory about his predecessor does indeed have a birth certificate showing he was born at nearby Jamaica Hospital to parents who lived at the address of the property being auctioned.

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