Donald Trump
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This article is about the President-elect of the United States. For other uses, see Donald Trump (disambiguation).
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| Vice President | Mike Pence (elect) |
| Succeeding | Barack Obama |
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| Occupation | Real estate developer |
| Years active | 1971–present |
| Preceded by | Fred Trump |
| Known for | Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago |
| Net worth | $4.5 billion[1] |
| Books | Trump: The Art of the Deal |
| Television | The Apprentice |
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| Born | Donald John Trump June 14, 1946 New York City |
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| Relatives | Trump family |
| Residence | Trump Tower, New York City |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania (BA) |
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Donald John Trump (US 
i/ˈdɒnəld dʒɒn trʌmp/; born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, businessman, television personality and President-elect of the United States. He is scheduled to take office as the 45th President on January 20, 2017.
i/ˈdɒnəld dʒɒn trʌmp/; born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, businessman, television personality and President-elect of the United States. He is scheduled to take office as the 45th President on January 20, 2017.
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 of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. In 1971, he took charge of his family's real estate and construction firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son, which was later renamed The Trump Organization. During his business career, Trump has built, renovated, or managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1996 to 2015, and has lent the use of his name to brand various products. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show on NBC. As of 2016, Forbes listed Trump as the 324th wealthiest person in the world (113th in the United States), with a net worth of $4.5 billion.
Trump sought the Reform Party's presidential nomination in 2000, but withdrew before voting began. He considered running as a Republican for the 2012 election, but ultimately decided against it. In June 2015, he announced his candidacy for the 2016 election, and quickly emerged as the front-runner among 17 contenders in the Republican primaries. His final opponents suspended their campaigns in May 2016, and in July he was formally nominated at the Republican Convention along with Mike Pence as his running mate. Trump's campaign
received unprecedented media coverage and international attention. Many
of his statements in interviews, on social media, and at campaign
rallies were controversial or false.[4][5][6][7][8] Numerous anti-Trump protests occurred during his campaign and after the election.
Trump won the general election on November 8, 2016 by gaining a majority of electoral college votes. He received a smaller share of the popular vote nationwide than Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. At age 70, Trump will become the oldest and wealthiest person to assume the presidency, and the first without prior military or governmental service.
Trump's platform emphasizes renegotiating U.S.–China relations and free trade agreements such as NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, strongly enforcing immigration laws, and building a new wall along the U.S.–Mexico border. His other positions include pursuing energy independence while opposing climate change regulations such as the Clean Power Plan and the Paris Agreement, reforming veterans' affairs, replacing the Affordable Care Act, abolishing Common Core education standards, investing in infrastructure, simplifying the Internal Revenue Code (tax code) while reducing taxes across the board, and imposing tariffs on imports by companies offshoring jobs. Trump advocates a largely non-interventionist approach to foreign policy while increasing military spending, "extreme vetting" of Muslim immigrants to preempt domestic Islamic terrorism, and aggressive military action against ISIS. Trump's positions have been described by scholars and commentators as populist, protectionist, and nationalist.
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Early life
Further information: Trump family
Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in Jamaica, Queens, a neighborhood in New York City. He was the fourth of five children born to Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump (1905–1999) and Mary Anne Trump (née MacLeod, 1912–2000).[9][10] His siblings are Maryanne, Fred Jr., Elizabeth, and Robert. Trump's older brother Fred Jr. died in 1981 from alcoholism, which Trump says led him to abstain from alcohol and cigarettes.[11]
Ancestry
Trump family coat of arms
Trump is of paternal German ancestry and maternal Scottish ancestry.
His mother and all his grandparents were born in Europe. His paternal
grandparents were immigrants from Kallstadt, Germany, and his father, who became a New York City real estate developer, was born in the Bronx.[12][13] His mother emigrated to New York from her birthplace of Tong, Lewis, Scotland.[14] Fred and Mary met in New York and married in 1936, raising their family in Queens.[14][15]
His uncle, John G. Trump, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1936 to 1973, was involved in radar research for the Allies in the Second World War, and helped design X-ray machines that prolonged the lives of cancer patients; in 1943, the Federal Bureau of Investigation requested John Trump to examine Nikola Tesla's papers and equipment when Tesla died in his room at the New Yorker Hotel.[16] Donald Trump's grandfather was Frederick Trump who amassed a fortune operating boom-town restaurants and boarding houses in the region of Seattle and Klondike, Canada.[17]
The Trump family were originally Lutherans, but Trump's parents belonged to the Reformed Church in America.[18] The family name, which was formerly spelled Drumpf, was changed to Trump during the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century.[19] Trump has said that he is proud of his German heritage and served as grand marshal of the 1999 German-American Steuben Parade in New York City.[20]
Education
Trump at age 18 at the New York Military Academy, June 30, 1964
Trump's family had a two-story mock Tudor home on Midland Parkway in Jamaica Estates, where he lived while attending The Kew-Forest School.[21][22] He left the school at age 13 and was enrolled in the New York Military Academy (NYMA),[23] in Cornwall, New York,
where he finished eighth grade and high school. Trump was an energetic
child; his parents hoped that the discipline at the military school
would allow him to channel his energy in a positive manner. In 1983,
Fred Trump told an interviewer that Donald "was a pretty rough fellow
when he was small".[24]
Trump participated in marching drills,
wore a uniform, and during his senior year attained the rank of
captain. He was transferred from a student command position after the
alleged hazing of a new freshman in his barracks by one of Trump's
subordinates; Trump later described the transfer as "a promotion".[25] In 2015, he told a biographer that NYMA gave him "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military".[26]
Trump attended Fordham University in the Bronx for two years, beginning in August 1964. He then transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, which offered one of the few real estate studies departments in United States academia at the time.[27][28] While there, he worked at the family's company, Elizabeth Trump & Son, named for his paternal grandmother.[29] He graduated from Penn in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.[28][30][31]
Trump was not drafted during the Vietnam War.[32] While in college from 1964 to 1968, he obtained four student deferments.[33]
In 1966, he was deemed fit for service based upon a military medical
examination, and in 1968 was briefly classified as fit by a local draft
board, but was given a 1-Y medical deferment in October 1968.[34] In an interview for a 2015 biography, he attributed his medical deferment to heel spurs.[26] In 1969, he received a high number in the draft lottery, which would also have exempted him from service.[34][35][36]
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