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Robert Trump Has Passed Away at 72, and Now ‘Wrong Trump’ is Trending on Twitter

Donald Trump’s brother Robert has died. He was 71.

“It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” the president said in a statement issued late Saturday. “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.”

The White House announced Friday that Robert Trump had been hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. The president visited him Friday afternoon at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan.

Robert Trump, born two years after Donald Trump, made news recently for suing to block publication of a book critical of the president by Mary Trump, the president’s niece.

The youngest of the Trump siblings, Robert Trump reportedly was hospitalized in the intensive care unit for several days in June

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.’”

And now, in response to the younger Trump’s passing, “wrong Trump” is trending on Twitter.

Take a look at some of the responses:

Now, yeah, that’s pretty morose. I personally would never tweet this. And it seems like the right is jumping on the hashtag as evidence that people on the left are awful:

All this said, Trump was golfing today…so…what do you think??

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