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.
MSNBC’s Kyle Griffin: Working for The Weekend
metroweekly.comKyle Griffin’s first foray into the world of news was serving as the anchor for his high school’s morning announcements program.
But the then-teenager quickly realized that being an on-air personality was not for him.“I saw at my local NBC affiliate that while the anchors and reporters were great, they were reading someone else’s words, and I wanted to be the person who wrote those words,” says Griffin. “I wanted to write the news.”Griffin got his wish.
A veteran of Seven Network Limited, NBC News Yahoo!, and the Albany, New York-based NBC affiliate WNYT, he’s currently the executive producer of MSNBC’s The Weekend, the network’s Saturday and Sunday morning news show, which launched earlier this year.He is very much a storyteller, a talent the 37-year-old picked up from a previous stint working as a senior producer on MSNBC’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell, where he was part of the team that earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding News Discussions & Analysis.
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