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.
Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter at $43 Billion Valuation
thewrap.coma filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission published Thursday, the billionaire Tesla CEO now pegged as the world’s richest man delivered a letter to Twitter on Wednesday proposing to acquire the company’s remaining shares at $54.20 apiece.
That’s above the closing price of $45.86 on Wednesday, when the company had a $36.7 billion market cap. “I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,” Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter board chairman Bret Taylor included in the SEC filing.Twitter’s board said it would review Musk’s proposal and promised a response that would be in the best interests of “all Twitter stockholders.”Musk’s takeover bid comes after the billionaire acquired a 9.1% stake in the company by mid-March and agreed to join the company’s board of directors — a plan that he reversed in a matter of days last week.The billionaire has been an outspoken critic of Twitter, particularly its efforts to moderate content such as misinformation, calls for violence, harassment and conspiracy theories about COVID and the Jan.
6 Capitol insurrection. He has joined a chorus of Republican politicians and activists in decrying penalties for those who break the platform’s terms of service that have intensified since Twitter placed an indefinite ban on former President Donald Trump in January 2021. “I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy,” Musk said in his letter.
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