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.
By Ted Johnson Donald Trump began speaking at Thursday’s coronavirus press briefing at 6:24 PM ET. Twenty two minutes later, he was finished.
A trend of truncated sessions? Better not try to predict with an unpredictable president. But Trump’s nightly press briefings, some of which have stretched to more than two hours, have started to wear on some of his allies and supportive media figures.
On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page deemed the press briefings a waste of time and “boring,” the latter being a favorite Trump word he often uses to dismiss media and political figures he doesn’t like.
Trump’s response was to the Journal was to lash out and call it “fake news,” while boasting about his ratings for the briefings.
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