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.
Ramin Setoodeh Co-Editor-in-Chief In a rambling convention speech on Thursday night, Donald Trump — sweaty and with a bandage over his right ear from surviving an assassination attempt on his life — did what he does best.
He talked, and talked, and talked. And talked. And talked. And talked. In front of a captive audience — both the true-believer crowd of Republicans in Milwaukee and those still glued to the Trump show at home — the 45th and would-be-47th President said relatively little about what he might accomplish with four more years in power.
But Trump has never been one to let details get him down. What mattered was the spotlight. Trump preached to America through his favorite medium: television.
With the camera focused on him once again after a long wilderness period, did it really matter if he spoke off-the-cuff? For 90 minutes of stream-of-consciousness storytelling, comprised of tangents and confusing asides, Trump seemed to revel in revisiting a bygone era — back when he led a much simpler life as a reality TV star.
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