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.
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Sign up for the International Insider newsletter here. Trump’s Tariff Targets “Liberation Day”: Another week, another Donald Trump bombshell.
This time guns were aimed… well, at the entire world (bar a few exceptions including Russia). On Wednesday, the President announced a tariff policy of a baseline 10% on virtually every nation, claiming April 2, 2025, would be remembered as “the day that we began to make America wealthy again,” calling it “Liberation Day.” Those hit included long-time allies in the UK, Europe and Australia, whose Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese responded by saying, “This is not the act of a friend.” Fair to say few countries were happy and stock markets are shellshocked, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing down almost 1,700 points and the Nasdaq and S&P 500 suffering their worst days since the start of the pandemic.
Mad Money host Jim Cramer warned the tariffs will be “horrendous” for the U.S. economy, but Trump and his team are certain that ripping the system up and starting again is the only way forwards, regardless of the short-term impact.
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