Elizabeth Trump (née Christ; German: [eˈliːzabɛt kʁɪst]; October 10, 1880 – June 6, 1966) was a German-American businesswoman.

However, the income provided by that was not adequate to meet their needs, and Philipp Christ worked as a tinker repairing and polishing old utensils and selling pots and pans.

He ran his trade from his house on Freinsheimer Strasse in Kallstadt, which was just across the street from the home of Katharina Trump, an elderly widow who lived with her six children, including Frederick.

Friedrich and Elisabeth moved to New York and they set up house in an apartment in the predominantly German quarter of Morrisania in the Bronx.

Elizabeth (as her name was spelled in the United States) kept house, while Frederick worked as a restaurant and hotel manager.

After Elizabeth gave birth to her third child, John, the family moved to Queens, where Frederick began to develop real estate.

In later interviews, Fred tended to put himself center stage, saying that he had always dreamt of being a builder; that he completed his first house in 1924, just one year out of high school; and that his mother only got involved because she was old enough to "sign checks".

Harry Hurt III states that Mary Trump, the wife of Elizabeth's son Fred, "drove back and forth between her husband's apartment projects in a Rolls-Royce, collecting coins from the washing machines in the laundry rooms",[18] and during his 2016 presidential campaign, Elizabeth's grandson Donald Trump told a crowd in Staten Island that he had spent "probably five" boyhood summers there collecting coins from his father's laundry machines.