Overview
- News outlets late Tuesday and into Wednesday reported a Daily Mail family tree that says the two are 15th cousins.
- Trump responded on Truth Social with a joking line about wanting to live in Buckingham Palace.
- The reported connection runs through Trump’s maternal line to John Stuart, the 3rd Earl of Lennox, in Scotland.
- The coverage attributes the finding to a single published genealogy rather than an official verification.
- Reporters note past examples of U.S. presidents with distant royal kin, including George H. W. Bush’s link to Queen Elizabeth II.