Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Alarm as Donald Trump installs loyalists in Pentagon amid desperate bid to cling to power
mirror.co.ukDonald Trump has installed loyalists in senior military roles in a highly unusual reshuffle amid the President’s desperate bid to cling on to power.
Pentagon policy has been handed to a man who branded Barack Obama a “terrorist”. And the new Chief of Staff to the Defence Secretary helped produce a dossier accusing senior Justice Department figures of “bias” against Trump.
The top-level turnover should be “alarming to all Americans”, Adam Smith, the Democrat chairman of the House armed services committee said.
He said: “It is hard to overstate just how dangerous high-level turnover at the department of defence is during a period of presidential transition.” He added: “If this is the beginning of a trend – the president either firing or
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