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.
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. Donald Trump‘s wild 2011 birtherism claims about Barack Obama deeply hurt Michelle Obama, the former president writes in his new memoir, A Promised Land.
Obama recalls in the 764-page tome a specific incident in which his senior advisor, David Axelrod, showed him a poll with disturbing results: people wanted Trump to be president, thanks to his absurd insistence that Obama had faked his Hawaiian birth certificate. “Polls were showing that roughly 40 percent of Republicans were now convinced that I hadn’t been born in America,” Obama wrote. “And I’d recently heard from Axe that according to a Republican pollster
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