Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the 45th President of the United States. Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Trump received an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. In 1971, he took charge of his family’s real estate and construction firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son, which was later renamed The Trump Organization. During his business career, Trump has built, renovated, and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1996 to 2015, and has lent the use of his name in the branding of various products. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted The Apprentice, a reality television series on NBC. As of 2016, Forbes listed him as the 324th wealthiest person in the world and 113th richest in the United States, with a net worth of $4.5 billion.
16 Things To Know About Donald trump:
Trump received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007 for his work on The Apprentice.
After college, he worked for his father’s company and convinced him to develop and expand real estate opportunities. According to Trump’s biography, his father often said, “everything my son touches seems to turn to gold.”
Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a degree in Economics in 1968. He also attended Fordham University.
After getting into some trouble in grade school, Trump’s parents sent him to the New York Military Academy. Other graduates of NYMA include Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Sondheim and John Gotti Jr.
Trump has never held a public office. He is the first president to be elected without a career stopover in government or the military.
At one point his building, the Trump World Tower, was the largest residential building in the world. It’s 90 stories high.
Trump once insulted former President Ronald Reagan in his 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal.” He said “only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.”
He was involved in the “birther” movement that questioned whether Barack Obama was born in the United States, though he acknowledged in September that the President was likely born here.
Trump believes that “a nation without borders is not a nation.” His immigration solution includes building a wall across the southern border of the United States.
He is #405 on Forbes list of the world’s billionaires for 2015. Forbes reported his net worth is $4.1 billion. Trump stated the magazine was incorrect and that his actual net worth was $11.5 billion.
Trump is the first Republican president-elect to have put forward proposals on child care. He plans to allow families to deduct child care costs from their taxes and has proposed six weeks maternity leave for biological mothers.
Top priorities for Trump’s first 100 days in office include: limiting congressional terms, renegotiating NAFTA, repealing Obamacare and enacting a “multi-trillion dollar” tax cut.
Trump has frequently described global warming as a “hoax.” He plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and reconsider the EPA’s finding that carbon dioxide is a harmful pollutant.
Trump won as a Republican, but he has been affiliated with other political parties including the Reform Party (1999 to 2001), the Democratic Party (2001 to 2009) and the Independent Party (2011 to 2012).
He is currently married to Melania Trump, with whom he has one child (Barron, who is 10). The future First Lady is a former Slovenian model. Trump has four other children (Donald, Jr., Ivanka, Eric and Tiffany) from previous marriages.
Trump’s Main Points:
Trump announced his candidacy with the promise “to build a great, great wall on our southern border” and “have Mexico pay for that wall,” and has repeated the call with conviction and consistency.
A ban from Muslims entering the USA until he ‘figures out what is going on’.
“I am going to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (and) I’m going tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal for our workers”. He aims to reduce taxes and lower company regulations too.
Impose tariffs on goods made in Mexico and China.
Renegotiate or withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnership
‘Full repeal of Obamacare’ and replace it with a market-based alternative
‘Bomb’ and/or ‘take the oil’ from ISIS
Defund planned parent hood.
Bring back waterboarding, which the Obama administration considers torture. Trump has said he’s willing to use interrogation techniques that go even further than waterboarding. Even if such tactics don’t work, “they deserve it anyway, for what they’re doing.”
“I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” Trump says cities like Reno, Nev., will “be a big fat beautiful beneficiary” of these new jobs.
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