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.
Like the first vertebrates to crawl from the ocean and onto dry land 500 million years ago, Donald Trump emerged from the primordial ooze of reality TV to be elected president of the United States in 2016.
And like an invasive species, the star of “The Apprentice” has wreaked havoc on his new ecosystem — declaring war on immigrant communities, doubling down on climate-change denial and weaponizing the federal government against his political enemies.
He’s also been hellbent on loading the federal courts with like-minded judges who will infect the American judiciary for a generation to come.
But now the entertainment industry that gave Trump to the world is fighting to keep him from getting reelected. Whereas in previous presidential cycles,
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