Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. 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. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Dennis Quaid ‘really admires’ Trump’s visits to NYC neighborhoods after historic Bronx rally
nypost.comappearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime” following Trump’s landmark rally in the South Bronx on Thursday, where thousands turned out to support the 2024 presidential candidate.“I really admire Trump for going into the neighborhoods,” Quaid told Watters. “You know, people relate to that.
They really do. If anything, all these events that been conspiring against him have actually made him more human to people.”Quaid added: “Donald Trump has been talking about cleaning house, which, you know, kind of making a clean sweep to start over.
That doesn’t mean being a dictator. That just means that we started doing what the American people have asked us to do.” In the summer of 1980, Ronald Reagan visited the South Bronx, where he criticized Jimmy Carter for neglecting urban revitalization efforts, likening the area to post-World War II London.
This visit preceded Reagan’s narrow victory in New York by nearly 3 percentage points in the 1980 general election.Reagan then carried New York by a margin of 8 points in his 49-state landslide win in 1984.
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