{"id":35123,"date":"2025-11-10T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35123\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:45:10","slug":"donald-trumps-childhood-home-lists-for-2-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35123\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s Childhood Home Lists for $2.3 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The childhood home of Donald Trump is on the market for $2.3 million.
\n Photo: Allyson Lubow\/Brown Harris Stevens\n <\/p>\n

The house in Jamaica Estates where Donald Trump lived as a baby before growing up to become an even bigger baby is now on the market for $2.3 million. The listing<\/a> is to the point: \u201cOnce the childhood home of President Donald Trump, this property carries a rich historical pedigree, now complemented by meticulous contemporary craftsmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Investors have been squeezing whatever they can get from this place in the years since Trump\u2019s ascension. As The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>, Michael Davis, a private-equity guy, bought the house for $1.39 million on Election Night in 2016, betting, it turns out correctly, that Trump would win. On the day of Trump\u2019s 2017 inauguration, Davis sold the house to a Chinese buyer for $2.14 million. Then he leased the house back from that buyer and rented it out on Airbnb for $800 per night, filling it with furniture from the Waldorf Astoria, which was closed<\/a> for renovations, and plaques that said unsettling things like: \u201cIn this bedroom, President Donald J. Trump was likely conceived by his parents, Fred and Mary Trump.\u201d That all fell apart in September of that year, when Oxfam engineered<\/a> a publicity stunt by renting the house during the United Nations General Assembly and\u00a0inviting refugees by to share their stories. The owner, who apparently didn\u2019t like any of this, bought Davis out of the lease.<\/p>\n

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\n The wood stove and the tools are \u201cbelieved to be original to the home,\u201d according to The Wall Street Journal.
\n Photo: Allyson Lubow\/Brown Harris Stevens\n <\/p>\n

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Photo: Allyson Lubow\/Brown Harris Stevens\n <\/p>\n

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\n The $500,000 renovation includes smart toilets.
\n Photo: Allyson Lubow\/Brown Harris Stevens\n <\/p>\n

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\n One of the bedrooms where it cannot be confirmed whether or not Donald Trump was conceived.
\n Photo: Allyson Lubow\/Brown Harris Stevens\n <\/p>\n

Then the house sat, falling into disrepair. A small colony of feral cats appeared<\/a>. It apparently smelled very bad. Then, in\u00a0February, it was bought by a real-estate developer for $835,000. A subsequent renovation, to the tune of $500,000 per the Journal, transformed it into a beige box that the listing describes as \u201cblending presidential history, refined interiors, and modern luxury.\u201d Those luxuries include smart toilets \u2014 and no feral cats, one assumes.<\/p>\n

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