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.
“I’m Supposed To Be Dead,” Donald Trump Says In First Interview Since Assassination Attempt At Rally
deadline.com“I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead,” Donald Trump said one day after an attempted assassination on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania,.
I’m supposed to be dead.” Detailing the experience of being shot in the ear while on stage at a battleground campaign stop on Saturday, the bandaged former president and presumptive GOP nominee sat down with reporters from the Washington Examiner and the New York Post on his way to the GOP convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
No pictures were allowed of Trump, but The FBI have said that Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old firefighter at the rally was killed and two people critically injured when the shooter opened fire on the rally.
The now dead shooter has been revealed to be 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, PA. After getting on an overlooking building near the rally, which there is still an investigation going on how the Secret Service and local police even allowed Cook to get some close “I wanted to keep speaking — I wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot,” Trump told the Washington Examiner in the same dual sit-down on plane from the Keystone State to Wisconsin. “It’s a very surreal experience, and you never know what you’re going to do until a thing like that happens.” In that context, Trump told the Examiner and the Rupert Murdoch-own Post that the shooting probably hasn’t truly mellowed him.
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