Donald Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, in August 1932. Generations of locals left hardscrabble poverty on the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, for opportunities abroad. Donald Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, en route to New York, circa 1932. The house where Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, grew up in the village of Tong on the Isle of Lewis, in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands. Mary Anne MacLeod died in the summer of 2000, aged 88, without seeing her son reach the White House.