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.
Eric Trump has hailed his father, Donald Trump, as "the best president the US has ever had," stating he is "doing great" following last month's assassination attempt.The 40 year old Eric landed at the family's Trump International golf resort in Aberdeenshire by helicopter on Saturday to inspect a new course set to open next year along the North Sea coast.As a businessman and hotelier, Eric highlighted the Trump family's investment in Scotland as an indicator of how his father's Republican presidency could be advantageous for Britain, even extending an invitation to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to visit the golf course.Reflecting on the July 14 assassination attempt, Eric Trump expressed his dismay: "It should never have been allowed to happen Somebody let him down.
As his son, I'm not very happy about it. In the West, you can't have leaders assassinated."Criticising the security lapse, he added, "When you spend three billion dollars on an agency, it was a failure that day.
Those 48 hours could have been very different."Eric confirmed his father's well-being and active campaign trail presence: "He's doing great, he's out campaigning." Praising his father's tenure, Eric likened Donald Trump to Winston Churchill for his disregard for political correctness and labelled him "the best president his country has seen ever".On international matters, Eric called the Gaza war "insane" and voiced confidence that his father would engage with Palestinian leaders to seek an end to the conflict, as well as meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin to address the war in Ukraine.Mr Trump remarked: "You could probably draw a lot of parallels with Churchill funny and un-politically correct, and effective.
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