Early life and education of Donald Trump saw 76x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, was born on June 14, 1946, in New York City to Fred Trump, a real-estate developer, and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, a Scottish immigrant. He was raised in a strict household and developed a rebellious and braggadocious personality early in his youth.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 31 edits to this article on 2026-06-14, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Fordham University
• Heritage and childhood
• Early schooling
• University of Pennsylvania
• Military school

What changed that day

The article grew by 1,630 characters that day. The largest single addition was 1,789 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-06-14 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.