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.
US President Donald Trump has admitted more US citizens will die as it gets set to end the lockdown – but he defiantly added “we have to get our country open”.
The US has a far larger reported coronavirus death toll than any other country in the world. One and a quarter million Americans are confirmed to have been infected with Covid-19, with numbers still climbing sharply.
Currently, 72,275 have died, with a further 16,179 patients in a critical condition. Deaths per million of population statistic – a key measure of how well a country is handling the pandemic – is 218.
Trump's own predictions of how many Americans would die have varied – from as little as “50,000 to 60,000” on April 17 to “anywhere from 75,000 to 100,000 deaths” on
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