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.
Donald Trump’s Truth Social $73M In The Red Since February 2022 Launch, SEC Filing Shows
deadline.comNot a ton of winning to report here: A new SEC filing shows that Donald Trump‘s Truth Social lost some $73 million in net sales in its first 16 months.
In a sprawling, 530-page filing with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (see it here), the social media platform championed by the former president lost $50 million on $1.4 million in net sales in calendar 2022, after launching in February of that year.
The losses narrowed some for the first half of 2023, with the platform down $23 million from January-to-June, which extrapolates to $46 million for the full year.
Trump revealed Truth Social in October 2021 — nine months after he was banned from Twitter in the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.S.
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