Adolf Hitler) until at least the late 1940s, from World War II until the 1980s Trump denied that he spoke German, and claimed he was of Swedish origin. In a 1973 interview with The New York Times, he claimed to have been born in New Jersey. These false claims of his heritage were repeated in the 1980s by Donald Trump and the author of Donald's first biography. After Fred Trump's death, his nephew and family historian John Walter explained that "He had a lot of Jewish tenants and it wasn't a good thing to be German in those days." Trump's contributions to Jewish charities led some to believe that he belonged to the Jewish faith. During the 1980s, Trump became friends with future prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, who at the time was the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations. Physical appearance Trump had blue eyes. As a child, he had blond hair, which later darkened. As an adult, he stood about six feet tall. He donned a toothbrush mustache as late as . After Trump's death, journalist Philip Weiss wrote that Trump was a "vigorous and imposing man with a square chest and prominent cheekbones" and that it was said that "Fred would rise just a little on his toes" to look taller when taking pictures with Donald. Dwight Garner says of Trump as photographed by Fred W. McDarrah: "With ... his acutely white teeth and his tuxedo, Fred Trump resembles a cut-rate magician who's wandered into the Sherry-Netherland." Late in life, he wore a wig and dyed his hair, sometimes turning it red or magenta, most noticeably his eyebrows and mustache. Photographs of the elderly Fred show a depression in the side of his facepossibly betraying damage to his lower jaw. According to Nylon.com, the 2018 New York Times exposé on the Trumps' wealth "led people to know, perhaps for the first time, what Fred Trump looks like—and it turns out he bears resemblance to no shortage of fictional villains, which has inspired a wave of new memes to bless the internet". Legacy Singer Woody Guthrie was a tenant of Beach Haven Apartments from 1950 to 1951. In his unrecorded song "Old Man Trump", he complained about the rent and accused Trump of stirring up racial hate "in the bloodpot of human hearts", singing: Trump was indirectly claimed as a relative of Republican politician Fred J. Trump,