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.
‘The Boys’ adds ‘political violence’ warning about ‘coincidental’ assassination storyline after Trump shooting
nypost.com“The Boys” features a shape-shifting supervillain trying to kill president-elect Robert Singer (Jim Beaver).The episode came out Thursday — five days after the assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump, 78, at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Amazon retitled the episode from “Assassination Run” to “Season Four Finale” and added a “viewer discretion advised” warning that appears on-screen at the start.The network and the show also released a statement addressing the similarities between the storyline of the finale and the Trump shooting.“The season finale of ‘The Boys’contains scenes of fictional political violence, which some viewers may find disturbing, especially in light of the injuries and tragic loss of life sustained during the assassination attempt on former President Trump,” the statement read.“’The Boys’ is a fictitious series that was filmed in 2023, and any scene or plotline similarities to these real-world events are coincidental and unintentional.”“Amazon, Sony Pictures Television and the producers of ‘The Boys’ reject, in the strongest terms, real-world violence of any kind,” the statement concluded.Trump was shot in the ear while speaking to supporters at the rally on Saturday.
The gunman was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. He crawled onto the roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage at the Butler Farm Show grounds.
He was shot and killed by Secret Service snipers.The former president said in an exclusive interview with The Post that the assassination attempt was a “very surreal experience.”“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” he said. “I’m not supposed to be here,.
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