The full name of Donald Trump is Donald John Trump. He was born in New York City on June 14, 1946, and served as the 45th President of the United States from 2017 to 21. Trump is a Politician, entrepreneur, and real estate developer who owned, operated, or obtained licenses to use his name on residential homes, hotels, casinos, golf courses, resorts, and other establishments in the New York City region and worldwide.

BIOGRAPHY

Donald became the 45th president of the United States. After serving one term as president from 2017 to 2021, Trump is now campaigning for the presidency again in the 2024 election. He gained notoriety as a real estate tycoon and reality TV personality before entering politics. When he opened the Grand Hyatt New York in 1980, he became the most well-known developer in the city. Trump made his television debut on the popular NBC reality series The Apprentice in 2004. After focusing on politics, Trump declared his intention to run for president of the United States in 2015 on the Republican ticket.

On July 19, 2016, Trump was formally declared the Republican nominee. On November 8, 2016, he defeated Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, to become the 45th president of the United States. After four years, former Vice President Joe Biden defeated Trump in his reelection campaign. In March 2023, after a slew of scandals, Trump was the first former president to face a criminal indictment.

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SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

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ZODIAC SIGN

The zodiac sign of Trump is Gemini-like Wasim Akram, Jennifer Winget,  Johnny Depp,  Shreya Karla, and Elina Fedorove. The features of Gemini people are Intelligence, responsibility, and kind.

FAMILY

Frederick (Fred) Christ Trump, a prosperous real estate developer, and Mary MacLeod had five children, of whom Trump was the fourth. Maryanne Trump Barry, the eldest sister of Donald, went on to become a judge in the United States District Court (1983–1999) and then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1999–2011) until her retirement. Frederick, Jr. (Freddy), his older brother, temporarily worked for his father’s company before going on to become an airline pilot in the 1960s. Due to his drunkenness, Freddy passed away at the young age of 43 in 1981.

PERSONAL LIFE

Trump married the Czech model Ivana Zelníčková Winklmayr in 1977. Together, they had three children: Eric, Ivanka, and Donald Jr.; the couple later separated in 1992. In the 1980s, the New York City tabloid press frequently covered Trump’s business dealings and their marriage. Tiffany, Trump’s fourth child was born in 1993, Marla Maples, an American actress, wed Trump. 1999 saw the dissolution of their marriage. Barron was born the year after Trump’s marriage to Slovene model Melania Knauss in 2005. Following her inauguration as president in 2017, Melania Trump became only the second first lady of the United States to be born outside of the country.

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

After attending the private boarding school New York Military Academy from 1959 to 1964, Fordham University in the Bronx from 1964 to 1966, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance and Commerce from 1966 to 1968, Trump earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from these institutions. He was granted a medical exemption from the military draft in 1968 after receiving a diagnosis of bone spurs during the Vietnam War. Following his graduation, Trump started working full-time for his father’s company, assisting in the management of its rental property assets, which were thought to be between 10,000 and 22,000 units at the time. He took over as president of a group of businesses and partnerships that Trump owned in 1974 and renamed the Trump Organization.

BUSINESS CAREER

Donald Trump significantly grew his father’s company in the late 1970s and early 1980s by investing in opulent hotels and real estate and moving the company’s headquarters to Manhattan and then Atlantic City, New Jersey.

He bought the run-down Commodore Hotel near Grand Central Station in 1976 after entering into a complicated profit-sharing arrangement with the city that included a 40-year property tax abatement—the first time a commercial property in New York City had received such a relief from taxes. With the help of the Hyatt Corporation, a project partner, and a construction loan secured by his father, Trump renovated the structure and reopened it as the 1,400-room Grand Hyatt Hotel in 1980. In collaboration with the Equitable Life Assurance Company, Donald developed the office, retail, and residential complex known as Trump Tower, which opened its doors in 1983. Trump’s Manhattan home and the Trump Organization headquarters were eventually housed in a 58-story structure at the intersection of 56th Street and Fifth Avenue. 

Trump additionally established the Trump Plaza residential cooperative in 1984, the Trump Parc luxury condominium complex in 1986, and the 19-story Plaza Hotel in 1988, which he spent over $400 million for. These properties were located in Manhattan throughout the 1980s.

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS

Trump made significant investments in the casino industry in Atlantic City during the 1980s. His holdings there eventually included the Trump Taj Mahal (1990), which at the time was the biggest casino in the world, Trump’s Castle Casino Resort (1985), and Harrah’s at Trump Plaza (1984), which was later renamed Trump Plaza. In addition, Trump acquired the New Jersey Generals, a franchise in the defunct U.S. Football League; Mar-a-Lago, a 118-room estate in Palm Beach, Florida, built in the 1920s by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post; the Trump Princess, a 282-foot yacht that was at the time the second largest in the world; and Trump Shuttle, an East Coast air shuttle service.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Trump received credit extensions from Deutsche Bank totaling hundreds of millions of dollars for various projects, such as the construction of Trump World Tower in New York in 2001 and the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago in 2009. Trump had proposed to his creditors in the early 1990s to develop his Mar-a-Lago estate into a collection of opulent residences. Still, local resistance forced him to change his plans and the property became a private club, which opened in 1995.

Trump and the NBC television network established the Miss Universe Organization in 1996. This organization was the source of the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA beauty pageants. Trump’s casino ventures, however, persisted in their difficulties: his firm, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, declared bankruptcy in 2004 due to the accumulation of excessive debt at many hotels, and the same company, renamed Trump Entertainment Resorts, filed for bankruptcy once more in 2009.

OTHER BUSINESS VENTURES

Trump used his name as a brand in several other business endeavors, such as the mortgage company Trump Financial and the online education platform Trump Entrepreneur Initiative (formerly Trump University), which focuses on real estate investing and entrepreneurship. The latter company, which shut down in 2011, was the subject of fraud-related class-action lawsuits from former students and a different action brought by the state attorney general of New York.

In November 2016, Trump agreed to pay $25 million to resolve the claims, having previously denied the accusations. In 2019, after almost two years in office, Trump consented to settle a second lawsuit brought by the New York attorney general, alleging that he had improperly utilized funds from his charity, the Trump Foundation, to finance his 2016 presidential campaign. The case sought $2 million in penalties and an admission of guilt. Dissolution of the Trump Foundation was a condition of the settlement.

TAX RETURNS

The New York Times released a comprehensive investigative report in 2018 detailing Fred Trump’s practice of transferring large sums of money. Totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, to his children through a combination of legal and tax-related strategies involving securities, real estate, and tax fraud. The investigation states that Donald benefited most from the transfers, receiving by the early 2000s an amount equal to $413 million in 2018 currency. A second story by the Times, based on information from Trump’s tax returns submitted over 18 years beginning in 2000. They claimed that Trump paid just $750 in each of the two years 2016 and 2017, and no federal taxes in 11 of those years.

By claiming massive losses on several of his businesses, deducting costs related to his residences and personal aircraft as business expenses, and receiving a tentative refund of nearly $73 million from the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), Trump was able to lower his tax obligations to levels significantly below the average for the wealthiest Americans. This amount more than covered the federal taxes Trump had paid on income he received from The Apprentice in 2005–2008. The refund was the focus of an IRS audit and a legally required examination by the Joint Committee on Taxation of Congress.

LAWSUITS AND INVESTIGATIONS

FAIR HOUSING ACT DISCRIMINATION TRIAL

The federal government filed a lawsuit against Trump, his father, and their business in 1973. They claimed that they had violated the Fair Housing Act, a component of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, by discriminating against renters and potential tenants based solely on their race.

In 1975, the matter was settled following an extended court dispute. The Trump organization was required by the agreement to teach staff members about the Fair Housing Act.

TRUMP UNIVERSITY

Trump opened his for-profit Trump University in 2005, providing real estate and wealth acquisition and management courses. The project has been the focus of criticism virtually from the beginning, and it was still the target of several lawsuits when he filed for president in 2015.

Plaintiffs in the instances charged Trump with contract violations, fraud, and deceptive advertising. When Trump implied that U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel could not be impartial in supervising two class action proceedings due to his Mexican origin, the controversy garnered national attention. Having earlier promised to go to trial, Trump settled three cases for $25 million on November 18, 2016, without acknowledging any guilt.

DONALD J. TRUMP FOUNDATION

Later, it was revealed that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi had chosen not to join the ongoing New York fraud action in a different event involving Trump University. This occurred only a few days after the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a private foundation established in 1988 to support charitable organizations, gave her a sizeable campaign donation. Bondi’s name was reportedly on Trump’s short list of potential candidates for U.S. Attorney General in November 2016.

Trump’s foundation came under fire for using its cash for non-charitable purposes. He was forced to pay an IRS penalty as a result of the illicit payment to Bondi’s campaign. 

POLITICAL PARTY

As of right now, Trump is registered as a Republican. He’s switched parties several times in the last thirty years. In 1987, Trump registered as a Republican; two years later, in 1989, he registered as an Independent.  Trump originally campaigned for president in 2000 on a promise of reform. He registered as a Democrat in 2001.

Trump returned to the Republican party in 2009, but to be eligible to compete for president the following year, he registered as an Independent in 2011. After endorsing Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, he eventually joined the Republican Party again and has stayed a Republican ever since.

2016 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Trump officially entered the race to be the Republican nominee for president in 2016 against Democrat Hillary Clinton. On November 8, 2016, he pulled off a shock victory by winning the majority of electoral college votes, defying polls and media expectations. Trump secured his election as the 45th president of the United States with 306 electoral college votes to Clinton’s 232, despite Clinton behind him by nearly 2.9 million votes in the popular vote

In his victory speech, Trump said:

“I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans”.

About his supporters, he said:

“As I’ve said from the beginning, ours was not a campaign, but rather an incredible and great movement made up of millions of hard-working men and women who love their country and want a better, brighter future for themselves and their families”.

PRESIDENTIAL ACTS

Trump claimed that he was more qualified to serve the country’s common citizens because he had less political experience. On January 20, 2017, he took the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States. After winning the election, Trump vowed to “Make America Great Again“.

He started by trying to reduce the national debt—the sum of money owed by the United States to other nations and businesses—by creating more jobs for the middle class and raising funds to construct a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico. This would strengthen border security and keep illegal immigrants out of the country. 

Additionally, he reversed earlier climate change and pollution reduction initiatives, claiming their costs were too high for the US government to bear. To generate employment, his administration has also suggested reducing the amount of land set aside for wildlife protected by the Endangered Species Act. A law that has helped save many North American species from extinction and permits mining and drilling where it was previously prohibited in national parks. In late 2019, animal cruelty was elevated to a federal offense under President Trump’s administration. Additionally, three justices to the Supreme Court—Neil Gorsuch in 2017; Brett Kavanaugh in 2018; and Amy Coney Barrett in 2020—were selected by President Trump while he was in office.

NET WORTH

Trump’s net worth is estimated at 2.6 Billion USD.

SOURCE OF INCOME

His major sources of income are his

• Businesses
• Investments
• Properties
• Real estate projects, and many more.

FAVORITES

INTERESTING FACTS

• In addition to owning almost 20 golf courses worldwide, Trump enjoys playing golf.
•  On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Trump has been honored with.
• In cameo roles in television shows and films, such as “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”, “Sex and the City”, and “Zoolander“, he has played himself.
• He made his identity into a brand as he transitioned from a real estate developer to a reality television celebrity. Trump-licensed goods have included apparel, board games, steaks, cologne, vodka, and furniture.
• Trump has held positions in three different political parties. He was a Republican at the moment, a Democrat from before 1987 to 2009, and an Independent from 2011 to 2012.
• He has Scottish and German ancestors.
• Donald enjoys watching World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE.

CONTROVERSIES

• Trump-owned housing developments in Norfolk, Virginia, Cincinnati, Ohio, and New York City were the subject of multiple complaints alleging racial discrimination against African Americans and other minority groups in the 1960s and early 1970s. The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Fred and Trump in 1973 for allegedly operating 39 apartment buildings in New York City in violation of the Fair Housing Act (1968). The Trumps first filed a $100 million countersuit against the Justice Department, claiming that their reputations had been damaged. Two years later, the lawsuit was resolved under terms that spared the Trumps from having to acknowledge their culpability.

RELATIONSHIP WITH STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

• Before the 2016 election, adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, better known by her stage as Stormy Daniels, allegedly signed a nondisclosure agreement promising to keep quiet about her relationship with Trump. The Daniels story gained media attention after the Wall Street Journal published a story about it at the beginning of 2018. This led to Daniels’ widely reported appearance on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, where she played coy about the matter. Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney, acknowledged paying Daniels $130,000 out of his pocket in February 2018, but he would not specify the purpose of the payment. Daniels said that the nondisclosure agreement was void because Trump had never signed it when she finally spoke out about it in March. In a late March 60 Minutes interview, Daniels talked about her purported tryst with Trump and her encounter in a parking lot with an unidentified individual who told her to avoid talking about the affair in public.

• Journalist E. Jean Carroll of New York claimed in June 2019 that Trump had sexually assaulted her in 1996 at the posh Bergdorf Goodman department shop in Manhattan. Carroll claims that as she was leaving the building, Trump sought to speak with her and asked if she could assist him in getting a gift for a female acquaintance. Carroll claims that after a little flirting, he led her upstairs to the lingerie area where, after pinning her in the dressing room, he pulled down her tights and sexually abused her.

ACCESS HOLLYWOOD CONTROVERSY

• Two days before the second presidential debate between Trump and Clinton on October 7, 2016, the Republican front-runner found himself embroiled in yet another controversy after the Washington Post made public a recording from 2005 in which he described groping and kissing women indecently, as well as attempting to have sex with television personality Nancy O’Dell, who was married at the time. In the three-minute clip, Trump was heard chatting with Access Hollywood co-anchor Billy Bush ahead of their scheduled appearance with soap opera star Arianne Zucker.

“I’ve gotta use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her”,

Trump said in the recording which was caught on a microphone that had not been turned off.

“You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything”.

Additionally, he said that his celebrity allowed him to seize women by the genitalia. Trump later posted a videotaped apology on Facebook in which he said:

“I’ve never said I’m a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I’m not. I’ve said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more-than-a-decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize”.