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Donald John Trump(born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman and politician who is currentlyPresident-elect of the United Statesas well as chairman and president ofThe Trump Organization, the principalholding companyfor his real estate ventures and other business interests. He has stated the intention to vacate the latter positions prior to his assumption of the presidency. During his career, Trump has built office towers, hotels, casinos, golf courses, andother branded facilitiesworldwide.Trump was born and raised inNew York Cityand received abachelor's degreein economics from theWharton Schoolof theUniversity of Pennsylvaniain 1968. In 1971 he was given control of his fatherFred Trump's real estate and construction firm and later renamed it The Trump Organization, rising to public prominence shortly thereafter. Trump has appeared at theMiss USApageants, which he owned from 1996 to 2015, and has madecameo appearancesin films and television series. HesoughttheReform Partypresidential nomination in 2000, but withdrew before voting began. He hosted and co-producedThe Apprentice, a reality television series onNBC, from 2004 to 2015. As of 2016, he was listed byForbesas the 324th wealthiest person in the world, and 156th inthe United States.In June 2015, Trump announcedhis candidacy for presidentas a Republican and quickly emerged as the front-runner for his party's nomination. In May 2016, his remaining Republican rivals suspended their campaigns, and in July he was formally nominated for president at the2016 Republican National Convention. Trump's campaign received unprecedented media coverage and international attention.Many of his statements in interviews, onTwitter, and at campaign rallieshave been controversialor false. Several rallies during the primaries were accompanied byprotests or riots. On October 7, a2005 audio recordingsurfaced in which Trump bragged about forcibly kissing andgropingwomen or being able to do so; multiple womenaccused him of similar conductshortly thereafter. He apologized for the 2005 comments and denied the allegations,describing them as part of a widersmear campaign.Trump's platform included renegotiation ofU.S.–China trade deals, opposition to particular trade agreements such asNAFTAand theTrans-Pacific Partnership, stronger enforcement ofimmigration lawstogether with building a wall along theU.S.–Mexico border, reform ofveterans' care, repeal andreplacement of theAffordable Care Act, and tax cuts. Following theNovember 2015 Paris attacks, Trump called for a temporaryban on Muslim immigration to the United States, later stating that the ban would focus instead on countries with a proven history of terrorism, until the screening for potential terrorists is improved.He was elected President on November 8, 2016, defeating Democratic candidateHillary Clinton, and will take office January 20, 2017. At 70 years old, he will be theoldest person to ever assume the presidency.Early lifeFurther information:Ancestry of Donald TrumpTrump was born on June 14, 1946, inJamaica Estates, Queens, a neighborhood in New York City.[3]He was the second youngest child of five children. Of his four siblings, three are living:Maryanne, Elizabeth, and Robert. Trump's older brotherFred Jr. died in 1981 fromalcoholism, which Trump says led him to avoid trying alcohol or cigarettes.[4]Trump is ofGermanancestry on his father'sside andScottishancestry on his mother's side; all four of his grandparents were born in Europe. His fatherFred Trump(1905–1999) was born inQueensto parentsfromKallstadt, Germany and became one of the biggest real estate developers in New York City.[5][6]His mother, Mary Trump (née MacLeod, 1912–2000), was born inTong, Lewis,Scotland.[7]Fred and Mary met in New York and married in 1936, settling together in Queens.[7][8]His uncleJohn G. Trump, a professor atMassachusetts Institute of Technologyfrom 1936 to 1973, was involved in radar research for the Allies in theSecond World War, helped design X-ray machines that provided additional years of life to cancer patients, and in 1943, theFederal Bureau of Investigationrequested him to examineNikola Tesla's papers and equipment when Tesla died in his room at theNew Yorker Hotel.[9]Trump frequently invokes his uncleas proof of his family's smart genes.[10]Drumpf, the family's ancestral name, evolved to Trump during theThirty Years' Warin the 17th century.[11]Trump has said that he is proud of his German heritage; he served asgrand marshalof the 1999German-American Steuben Paradein New York City.[12][nb 1]Trump at age 18 at theNew York MilitaryAcademy, June 30, 1964The family had a two-storyTudor Revivalhome on Wareham Place in Jamaica Estates, where Trump lived while attendingThe Kew-Forest School.[15]Due to behaviorproblems, Trump left the school at age 13 and was enrolled in theNew York Military Academy(NYMA),[16]where he finished eighth grade and high school. In 1983, Fred Trump told an interviewer that Donald "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small."[17]During his senior year, Trump participated in marching drills, wore a uniform, and attained the rank of captain.[18]In 2015, he told a biographer that NYMA gave him "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military".[19]Trump attendedFordham Universityinthe Bronxfor two years, beginning in August 1964. He then transferred to theWharton School of Finance and Commerceat theUniversity of Pennsylvania, which offered one of the fewreal estate studiesdepartments in United States academia.[20][21]While there, he worked at the family's company, Elizabeth Trump & Son, named forhis paternal grandmother.[22]Trump graduated from Wharton in May 1968 with aBachelor of Sciencein Economics.[21][23][24]Trump was not drafted during theVietnam War.[25]While in college from 1964 to 1968,he obtained four student deferments.[26]In 1966, he was deemed fit for service based upon a military medical examination, and in1968 was briefly classified as fit by a local draft board, but was given a 1-Ymedical defermentin October 1968.[27]In an interview for a 2015 biography, Trump attributed his medical deferment toheel spurs.[19]In December 1969 Trump received a high number in thedraft lottery, which would also have exempted him from service.[27][28][29]Business careerAn analysis of Trump's business career byThe Economistin 2016, concludes that his"...performance [from 1985 to 2016] has been mediocre compared with the stock market and property in New York", noting both his successes and bankruptcies. Any such analysis is difficult because, as the magazine observed, "Information about Mr. Trump's business is sketchy. He doesn't runa publicly listed firm..." Trump's early successes were partly commingled with those of his father so they omit them, claiming, "The best long-term starting point is 1985, when Mr. Trump first appeared in the rankings without his father."[30]A subsequent analysis byThe Washington Post, whose reporters were denied press credentials by the Trump presidential campaign, opined that "Trump is a mix of braggadocio, business failures, and real success."[31]Real estateSee also:The Trump OrganizationEarly careerPrior to graduating from college, Trump began his real estate career at his father's company,[32]Elizabeth Trump and Son,[33]which focused on middle-class rental housing in the New York CityboroughsofBrooklyn,Queens, andStaten Island. Duringhisundergraduate study, one of Trump's first projects was the revitalization of the foreclosed Swifton Village apartment complex inCincinnati, Ohio, which his father had purchased for $5.7 million in 1962.[34]Fred and Donald Trump became involved in the project, and with a $500,000 investment, turned the 1,200-unit complex'soccupancy rate from 34% to 100%. Trump has said that when he graduated from college in 1968, he was worth about$200,000 (equivalent to $1,020,000 in 2015).[35]In 1972, the Trump Organization sold Swifton Village for $6.75 million.[36][37]At age 23, he made an unsuccessful commercial foray into show business, investing $70,000 to become co-producer of the 1970 Broadway comedyParis Is Out![38]