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.
Kanye West has compared the response to his support of Donald Trump to racial profiling. The rapper, fashion designer and gospel singer is one of the few high-profile Hollywood figures to publicly back the president and once referred to Mr Trump as his “brother”.
West has now dismissed his critics and said people only assumed he would be a Democrat because of his skin colour. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal Magazine, he said: “I’m a black guy with a red hat, can you imagine? “It reminded me of how I felt as a black guy before I was famous, when I would walk in a restaurant and people would look at you like you were going to steal something. “‘This is your place, Ye, don’t talk about apparel.
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