President Trump making New York trip to visit his hospitalized brother
WASHINGTON, DC -- President Donald Trump is expected to head to New York later Friday to visit his younger brother, Robert Trump, who is hospitalized.
The details of the younger Trump's condition remain unknown though he is described to ABC News by several sources as "very ill."
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany first confirmed the hospitalization to ABC News, and later the president addressed the situation.
"I have a wonderful brother. We've had a great relationship for a long time, from day one," President Trump told reporters. "And he's in the hospital right now, and hopefully he'll be alright, but he is pretty -- he's having a bad time."
Robert Trump was a former top executive at the Trump Organization. He's one of four other siblings to the President, including the late Fred Trump, Jr.
In June, Robert Trump was hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Mount Sinai hospital in New York for more than a week.
Robert Trump was most recently in the news after he led a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family seeking to stop publication of a tell-all book by the president's niece, Mary, titled "Too Much and Never Enough."
The Trump family claimed Mary Trump's book was a violation of a non-disclosure agreement she signed in connection to a financial settlement she received from the family years prior.
Robert Trump said at the time of the suit earlier this year that he was "deeply disappointed" in his niece's decision to write such a book and that he and the "entire family" were "so proud of my wonderful brother, the president."
