At age 13, he was enrolled at the New York Military Academy, a private boarding school, and, in 1964, he enrolled at Fordham University. Trump grew up with older siblings Maryanne, Fred Jr., and Elizabeth and younger brother Robert in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens, and attended the private Kew-Forest School from kindergarten through seventh grade. Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964ĭonald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York City, the fourth child of Fred Trump, a Bronx-born real-estate developer whose parents were German immigrants, and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, an immigrant from Scotland. In March 2023, a Manhattan grand jury indicted him on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, and, in June, a federal grand jury indicted him on 37 counts related to his handling of classified documents. In November 2022, he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election. Since leaving office, Trump has remained heavily involved in the Republican Party. Scholars and historians rank Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history. The House impeached him a second time in January 2021, for incitement of insurrection, and the Senate acquitted him the next month. After he tried to pressure Ukraine in 2019 to investigate Biden, he was impeached in December by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress he was acquitted by the Senate in February 2020. Trump is the only American president to have been impeached twice. Capitol, which many of them then attacked, resulting in multiple deaths and interrupting the electoral vote count. On January 6, 2021, he urged his supporters to march to the U.S. He refused to concede defeat, falsely claiming widespread electoral fraud, and attempted to overturn the results by pressuring government officials, mounting scores of unsuccessful legal challenges, and obstructing the presidential transition. Trump lost the 2020 United States presidential election to Joe Biden. He reacted slowly to the COVID-19 pandemic, ignored or contradicted many recommendations from health officials, used political pressure to interfere with testing efforts, and spread misinformation about unproven treatments. He met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un three times but made no progress on denuclearization. from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal. He initiated a trade war with China and withdrew the U.S. He appointed 54 federal appellate judges and three U.S.
He signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which cut taxes for individuals and businesses and rescinded the individual health insurance mandate penalty of the Affordable Care Act. He weakened environmental protections, rolling back more than 100 environmental policies and regulations. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist and many as misogynistic.Īs president, Trump ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, diverted military funding toward building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, and implemented a policy of family separations for apprehended migrants. Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. The 2017–2019 special counsel investigation established that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to favor his campaign. His election and policies sparked numerous protests.
president with no prior military or government service. During that campaign, Trump's political positions were described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. He won the 2016 presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton while losing the popular vote. He and his businesses have been plaintiff or defendant in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six corporate bankruptcies.
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From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the reality television series The Apprentice. He expanded its operations to building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses and later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He became president of his father's real-estate business in 1971 and renamed it the Trump Organization.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School with a bachelor's degree in 1968. Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
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