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Washington Robert Trump, 71, the younger brother of President Trump, Robert Trump, 71, has died. He died on Aug. 15. The death was announced by the White House. He had been hospitalized for several days after becoming seriously ill. No cause of death was immediately given. President Trump said in a statement, “It is with a heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight. 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.”

Robert Stewart Trump was born in New York on Aug. 26, 1948, the youngest of five children of Fred Trump Sr. and his wife, the former Mary Anne MacLeod. The eldest son, Fred Jr., died of an alcoholism-related illness in 1981 at 42. Robert Trump had said in 2016 that he supported his sibling’s candidacy “one thousand percent.” The brothers were photographed embracing on election night.

Later on, Robert Trump kept a very low profile until very recently when he filed a lawsuit against his niece Mary Trump in a futile attempt to stop the publication of her book, which called Donald Trump “the world’s most dangerous man.” It was Fred Jr.’s daughter, Mary Trump, who this year published a scathing memoir of her time in the family, and her book provides the most vivid account of Robert Trump’s upbringing that Robert tried to stop from publication. “Donald had discovered early on how easy it was to get under Robert’s pale skin and push him past his limits; it was a game he never tired of playing,” Mary Trump wrote. “Nobody else would have bothered — Robert was so skinny and quiet that there was no sport in tormenting him.”

Robert was quiet and reserved in comparison to his garrulous brother. He often did his elder brother’s bidding and remained loyal until the end.