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.
When word made it to the Trump Organization in 2016 that an adult film star was claiming she had an affair with Donald Trump, the then-presidential candidate wasn’t exactly pressed.
Trump actually thought it would boost his favorability in the polls, Michael Cohen writes in his book Disloyal: A Memoir.
Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, said Trump was actually more worried about wife Melania Trump‘s potential reaction than a public scandal. Stormy Daniels had claimed that she slept with Trump in 2006, just months after son Barron Trump (now 14) was born.
As the story started to make the rounds, Cohen and Trump came to an agreement with Daniels’ rep: pay her $130,000 to make it go away.
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