Who is Donald Trump?

Who is Donald Trump?

Donald Trump’s early life

Donald was born on the 14th of June, 1946 in New York, to Fred and Elizabeth Trump. His father, who ended up being one of New York’s biggest property developers, was American-German. Fred Trump was once arrested at a KKK rally and was sued by the US Justice Department for refusing to rent flats to African-American people. His mother was Scottish and had left poverty in Scotland to live in America. So Trump does actually have a family, which might come as a surprise to those of us who’d assumed he was forged in a cave, like an orc. Trump was expelled from school at the age of 13 and sent to the New York military academy.

Donald Trump’s career

First and foremost Donald spent his time making lots of money buying and selling property. The fact that he’s made a great deal of money is one of the central themes in his presidential campaign. Despite the fact that Trump would actually have more money if he’d left his whole inheritance in a high interest account, he’s viewed as a successful business man. Currently, Donald Trump’s net worth is estimated at around 4.5 billion USD.

Alongside the property gig he also starred in American version of The Apprentice (yes, that’s basically like Alan Sugar deciding he wants to be Prime Minister). Donald seems to quite like being on screen because he’s got a massive list of film and TV cameos including Home Alone, Sex and the City, Zoolander, Two Weeks Notice and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Unsurprisingly, given his opinions on beautiful women, Donald seemed to enjoy his sideline as president of the Miss World enterprise (which is basically like being president of the United States, right?) an organisation that put teenage girls in heels and bikinis and then had them jump around on stage. During his tenure Miss World was accused of being rigged, and let a contestant who tested positive for cocaine keep her crown.

Donald Trump’s personal life

Donald Trump has been married three times. His first marriage was in 1977, to Czech born Ivana Zelníčková, who said in their divorce deposition that Donald had ‘raped’ her. She later clarified that she meant she felt violated, not that he had raped her in a ‘legal’ sense. Donald and Ivana have three children together, Donald Jr, Eric and Ivanka. Donald Trump daughter Ivanka has been actively involved in Donald’s presidential campaign.

During his marriage to Ivana, Trump had an affair with Marla Maples, who he married in 1993. Maples and Trump have one daughter Tiffany, who is now 22 and works as a Vice President at her father’s real estate company. Marla and Donald separated in 1997 and legally divorced in 1999.

In 1998 Trump began his relationship with his third and current wife Melania Trump. The pair got married in 2005 and in 2006 she gave birth to their son Barron. In total, Donald has five children and eight grandchildren.

Trump’s treatment of women has been the subject of much controversy, with at least 24 women accusing him of sexual assault over the past 30 years. Prior to the election, a tape from an episode of Access Hollywood with Billy Bush (yep, related to that Bush) was leaked which didn’t help his case. He was caught saying, ‘When you’re a star, [women] let you do it. You can do anything…Grab them by the pussy.’

Mexican actress Salma Hayek also revealed that Donald Trump had previously asked her to cheat on her boyfriend with him, after meeting at an event.

It’s impossible to discuss Donald Trump without mentioning his Twitter persona, which merges his professional and private life. Find him and his 10.7 million followers @realDonaldTrump.

Donald Trump’s election campaign

So how did he go from gauche billionaire to having his finger on the red button? Well, he’d been talking about politics for years, first suggesting that he might run for election in 1988, and suggesting it regularly until 2012. In 2013 he spent an estimated $1 million dollars on research into becoming President. But it wasn’t until June 2015 that Trump called a press conference at the Trump Tower in New York and announced his intention to run for President of the United States, whilst the whole of the rest of the world collectively shook their heads.

After campaigning to be the republican candidate, Donald became the republication option for President in July. Despite the fact that he lost the popular vote by 2.9 million votes to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, he wound up winning the 270 electoral college votes needed to secure the presidency.

On June 20, 2017, Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Cue the ‘Freedom Kids’ who performed a bizarre tribute song to Trump at a Florida rally, USA.

Donald Trump’s campaign promises

Trump’s major campaign slogan is ‘Make American great again’. His major promises are to improve the US fiscal situation with an emphasis on ‘straight talking’, patriotism and standing against ‘political correctness.’

He also became the focus of international attention when he announced that he would make building a Mexican border wall a priority, which Mexico would pay for. In a meeting with the Mexican president, he said that a lot of ‘bad hombres’ were making their way into the United States and needed to be stopped. He also wanted to crack down on illegal immigration as well, going as far as to say that every undocumented citizen has to go, and also wanted to begin a process of extreme vetting for Muslims entering the US.

Obamacare – or rather the Affordable Care Act – was also a big target for the Trump campaign. It wasn’t a massive surprise that he wanted to dismantle it, given that Republicans have been gunning for the health insurance bill for a while.

Other promises that Trump made included renegotiating trade deals, withdrawing from NATO, bombing IS, nominating a new Supreme Court Justice and rethinking the Paris Climate accord.

Donald Trump’s presidency

Since taking office, the 45th president of the United States has been the focus of both domestic and international attention. Although he and his family eventually moved into the White House, he can frequently be found at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida where he has previously hosted Chinese president Xi Jinping.

Trump has made some moves towards delivering on his campaign promises. He has announced America’s intention to withdraw from the Paris Climate accord, pulled America out of the Trans Pacific Partnership just a few days into his presidency and has dropped one of the biggest bombs the USA has on IS (barring nuclear weaponry).

He and his team have also drafted up a hideously unpopular Trumpcare health bill, which will cut heath insurance from lower income at-risk groups such as cancer patients, those with pre-existing conditions and pregnant mothers. While it was revised following a lot of backlash, it has since passed the House of Representatives and is well on its way to the Senate, where if it passes it will become law.

Another big controversial topic of his presidency has been his proposed travel ban on Muslim countries, which his PR team has tried to rebrand again and again despite the President’s own words. While it hasn’t become a reality, thousands of visas have been revoked, people who have been to countries such as Iran have found difficulty entering the USA and a laptop ban on planes from Muslim countries has been introduced.

More recently, Donald Trump has been a lot of scrutiny for his alleged dealings with Russia as well as his behaviour in dealing with former FBI director James Comey. James Comey, the same man who brought up the Hillary Clinton email scandal just days before the election, testified under oath as to his relationship with the president.

Comey heavily suggested that the president was not only a liar, but he had also perceived him to be using his political influence to obstruct Comey’s Russia investigation. Comey was later fired (something he found out about on television) and his testimony revealed that he believed his investigation and firing were correlated. While the fallout remains to be seen, some have been calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment and the entire debacle has been dubbed ‘stupid Watergate’ by some media outlets.

The next four years are shaping up to be colourful ones.We expect to see a lot more of this…

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