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 man who appeared to want to shoot Donald Trump yesterday had been on the scene around the ex-president fin Palm Beach for up to 12 hours, law enforcement said today.
However, even though Ryan Wesley Routh got within 500 yards of Trump, he never fired a shot. Based on tracking of Routh’s s cell phone data, the revelation by law enforcement today of the suspect’s actions on September 15 further muddied the situation as it was a sudden “off the record movement” by Trump that saw him at his Florida golf course. “He wasn’t’ supposed to go there,” Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe Jr told the media in a joint press conference Monday.
Not that the lack of Routh pulling the trigger from the bushes on the public side of the Sunshine State golf course seemed to matter much to Trump.
On social media Monday, Trump himself raged that the “bullets are flying and it will only get worse.” In characteristic attack mode, Trump also went after “Comrade Kamala Harris” and immigrants in his extended post.
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