Donald John Trump
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Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election against Hillary Clinton and became the 45th US President in January 2017. He was elected again in 2024 as the 47th President, becoming only the second president to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland. Before politics, he built a real estate empire with Trump Tower in New York and starred in the reality TV show The Apprentice.
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Donald Trump — early life, career, personal life, and legacy.
Fred Trump built a multi-million dollar empire developing tenements in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. His son Donald was born on June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York City to Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. Donald attended The Kew-Forest School and later New York Military Academy before studying economics at Fordham University. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.
In 1975, Trump bought the Commodore Hotel and reopened it as the Grand Hyatt New York in 1980. He had joined his father’s company after college and started his own Manhattan firm in 1974. Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, completed in 1983, brought him international fame. In 1990 he opened the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City but faced near bankruptcy, reorganizing his debts. He hosted the TV show The Apprentice from 2003 to 2005. On June 16, 2015 he announced his candidacy for US President and won the 2016 election. He was elected again in 2024.
Trump married Ivana Zelníčková in 1977; they had three children: Donald Jr. 1977, Ivanka 1981, and Eric 1984. After their divorce in 1992, he married Marla Maples in 1993, divorcing in 1999. He married Melania Knauss on January 22, 2005; their son Barron was born in 2006. Trump has five children and ten grandchildren. He does not drink alcohol and is a self-confessed germaphobe.
Trump’s presidency included the 2017 tax cuts, appointment of three Supreme Court justices, recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in 2017, and withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018. He was impeached twice but acquitted by the Senate. In 2024 he became the second president elected to non-consecutive terms. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007 and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013. He remains known for his real estate brand and his political style.
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It Doesn’t Hurt to Get More Education.
Watch Somebody Sell Their Used Car and Not Wash It. You Can Spend $10 Washing the Car and Get Another $200 for the Car.
A Little More Moderation Would Be Good. of Course, My Life Hasn’t Exactly Been One of Moderation.
Money Was Never a Big Motivation for Me, Except as a Way to Keep Score. the Real Excitement Is Playing the Game.
Show Me Someone Without an Ego, and I’ll Show You a Loser.
Well, Yes, I’ve Fired a Lot of People. Generally I Like Other People to Fire, Because It’s Always a Lousy Task. but I Have Fired Many People.
It’s Tangible, It’s Solid, It’s Beautiful. It’s Artistic, from My Standpoint, and I Just Love Real Estate.
Rosie O’Donnell Called Me a Snake Oil Salesman. And, You Know, Coming from Rosie, That’s Pretty Low Because When You Look at Her and When You See the Mind, the Mind Is Weak. I Don’t See It. I Don’t Get It. I Never Understood How Does She Even Get on Television?
When Mexico Sends Its People, They’re Not Sending Their Best. They’re Not Sending You. They’re Sending People That Have Lots of Problems, and They’re Bringing Those Problems with Us. They’re Bringing Drugs. They’re Bringing Crime. They’re Rapists. and Some, I Assume, Are Good People.
Every Time Somebody Says I Made a Mistake, They Do the Polls and My Numbers Go Up. so I Guess I Haven’t Made a Mistake.
When Was the Last Time That You Saw This Country Have a Victory? We Don’t Have Victories. What Things Am I Going to Do Differently? Almost Everything.
We Have Places in London and Other Places That Are so Radicalized That the Police Are Afraid for Their Own Lives. NOTE: the British Government Has Stated That No Such Areas Exist in London.
Paris Is No Longer the Safe City It Was. They Have Sections in Paris That Are Radicalized, Where the Police Refuse to Go There. They’re Petrified. the Police Refuse to Go in There. NOTE: the French Government Has Stated That No Such Areas Exist in Paris.
I Could Stand in the Middle of Fifth Avenue and Shoot Somebody, and I Wouldn’t Lose Any Voters.
I Can Be More Presidential Than Anyone.
Part of the Beauty of Me Is That I’m Very Rich.
People Are Angry. All Over the World They’re Angry.
Disloyal Republicans Are Far More Difficult Than Crooked Hillary. They Came at You from All Sides. They Don’t Know How to Win. I Will Teach Them.
Little-known facts about Donald Trump — origins, oddities, and behind-the-scenes details from a public life.
For his appearance on The Nanny 1993, Trump’s team requested a script change from millionaire to billionaire; the line was changed to zillionaire after a suggestion by Fran Drescher.
Two of Trump’s three wives were born outside the United States.
Trump is the fifth US president to win the election while losing the popular vote.
He received five deferrals during the Vietnam War.
He is 22 days older than President George W. Bush and 66 days older than President Bill Clinton; all three were born in 1946.
Though he owns alcohol brands, Trump does not drink alcohol.
He is a self-confessed germaphobe.
Trump declined the $400,000 annual presidential salary and accepted $1 per year, as presidents Hoover and Kennedy did before him.
In the 1980s, Trump often used the alias John Barron for business calls; Barron Trump is the name of his son with Melania.
Trump became the first sitting US president to cross into North Korea when he met Kim Jong Un at the DMZ on June 30, 2019.
He was a vocal proponent of the birther conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama, later conceding Obama was born in the US.
One of Trump’s first actions as president was to restore a bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office.
He appointed Gina Haspel as CIA director in May 2018, the first woman to head the agency.
Trump supports medical marijuana.
In August 2016, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte challenged Trump to a fistfight after Trump proposed banning Filipinos from entering the US.
Trump revealed in 2011 that he shuns alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and tattoos, and supports military spending.
He became the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017.
Trump’s 2005 wedding to Melania at Mar-a-Lago was attended by Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, and Barbara Walters.
Trump’s father Fred Trump was a multi-millionaire developer of German descent; his mother Mary was Scottish and worked as a maid.
Biographer Tony Schwartz, who ghostwrote Trump: The Art of the Deal, received a cease-and-desist letter from Trump’s lawyers in 2016.
Trump pardoned Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio on August 25, 2017 for his work against illegal immigration.
According to a February 2017 New York Times article, Trump received more media coverage in his first month than any single person in modern news history.
He was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2016 but had hoped for Man of the Year.
On December 6, 2017, Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, becoming the first world leader to do so.
He is the only US president to run for reelection after being impeached.
Trump was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.
He does not carry a briefcase and has a morbid fear of shaking hands.
Trump won the 2016 presidential election and took office on January 20, 2017 as the 45th president.
At age 70 in 2016, he was the oldest person elected to a first term until Joe Biden in 2020; he broke Biden’s record in 2024 at age 78.
In 2016, Trump won Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, which had voted Democratic since the 1980s and 1990s.
He became the presumptive Republican nominee on May 4, 2016 after Ted Cruz and John Kasich dropped out.
Trump is the second US president born in New York City, after Theodore Roosevelt.
Trump University faced multiple class-action lawsuits; Trump settled for $25 million on November 18, 2016.
He was the first sitting US president to address the March for Life Rally on January 24, 2020.
After Bernie Madoff’s imprisonment, Trump refused to rent an apartment to Madoff’s wife Ruth.
Trump received nearly three million fewer popular votes than Hillary Clinton in 2016.
He is the first president since George W. Bush in 2000 to win the presidency while losing the popular vote.
In May 2018, Trump donated one-fourth of his salary to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
He won 30 states and Maine’s second congressional district in 2016, marking Maine’s first split electoral votes since 1828.
Trump stated he is pro-life and against gay marriage, though he was once pro-choice.
He won the 2024 election against Kamala Harris, becoming the second president after Grover Cleveland to serve non-consecutive terms and the oldest elected at 78.
His paternal grandparents were German; his mother was Scottish from the Isle of Lewis.
In The Art of the Deal, Trump wrote he briefly considered attending USC to become a film producer but chose real estate.
Trump filmed a cameo for Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps 2010 but it was cut from the final film.
Folk singer Woody Guthrie, a tenant at Fred Trump’s Beach Haven complex, wrote the song Old Man Trump about his landlord.
In January 2016, Trump threatened to end his investment in Scottish golf resorts if banned from entering Scotland.
Trump was the first president to confirm a Supreme Court justice within 100 days of his first term since 1881 April 2017.
In May 2018, Trump withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal, welcomed by Israel and Saudi Arabia.
At his wedding to Marla Maples, guests included Rosie O’Donnell, O.J. Simpson, and Joy Behar; Behar said the film was removed from her camera.
Trump attended the NRA convention in April 2017, the first sitting president to do so since Ronald Reagan.
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