Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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1Early life
2Business career
o 2.1Real estate
2.1.1Early career
2.1.2Trump Tower
2.1.3Expansion
2.1.4Business bankruptcies
2.1.5Inheritance and further acquisitions
2.1.6Golf courses
o 2.2Sports events
o 2.3Beauty pageants
o 2.4Trump University
o 2.5Donald J. Trump Foundation
o 2.6Branding and licensing
o 2.7Income and taxes
o 2.8Net worth
3Entertainment and media
o 3.1The Apprentice
o 3.2Trump Model Management
o 3.3Professional wrestling
4Politics
o 4.1Political affiliations
o 4.2Involvement in politics, 19882015
12External links
Early life
Further information: Ancestry of Donald
Trump
Trump was born on June 14, 1946,
in Jamaica, Queens, a neighborhood in New
York City.[6] He was the second youngest
child of five children. Of his four siblings,
three are living: Maryanne, Elizabeth, and
Robert. Trump's older brother Fred Jr. died in
1981 from alcoholism, which Trump says led
him to never drink alcohol or smoke
cigarettes.[7]
Trump is of German ancestry on his father's
side and Scottish ancestry on his mother's
side; all four of his grandparents were born in
Europe. His father Fred Trump (19051999)
was born in Queens to parents
from Kallstadt, Germany, and became one of
the biggest real estate developers in New
York City.[8][9] His mother, Mary Trump (ne
MacLeod, 19122000), was born in Tong,
Lewis, Scotland.[10] Fred and Mary met in
New York and married in 1936, settling
Early career
Prior to graduating from college, Trump
began his real estate career at his father,
Fred Trump's company,[34] Elizabeth Trump
and Son,[35] which focused on middle-class
rental housing in the New York
City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens,
and Staten Island. During his undergraduate
study, Fred and Donald Trump used a
$500,000 investment to successfully reopen
the foreclosed Swifton Village apartment
complex in Cincinnati, Ohio.[36]
He was given control of the company in 1971
and, in one of his first acts, renamed it to The
Trump Organization.[37][38] He became the
president of the organization in 1973. That
year, he and his father drew wider
attention when the Justice
Department alleged that they were
discriminating against blacks who wanted to
rent apartments, rather than merely
screening out people based on low income
as the Trumps stated. An agreement was
later signed in which the Trumps made no
admission of wrongdoing, and under which