Trump said he recalled a conversation with his uncle: “I said, ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John?’ Dr. John Trump? Ted Kaczynski wasn't identified until 1996, and he went to Harvard, not MIT. Donald Trump’s nephew, Fred Trump III, confirmed on social media by writing: “Not that anyone really cares, but my Great Uncle @johntrump, who was a very nice and caring man, together with his wife Elora, did not teach the #Unibomber. Was never discussed at the Trump family dinner table.”Not that anyone really cares, but my Great Uncle @johntrump, who was a very nice and caring man, together with his wife Elora, did not teach the #Unibomber. Was never discussed at the Trump family dinner table.