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.
Journalist April Ryan on Making History as a White House Correspondent and Why ‘Everyone Prayed’ for Her ‘Because of Donald Trump’
thewrap.comTheWrap: You were very impressive during the Trump administration for how you handled things in the briefing room — you were calm, you were professional when condescended to on more than one occasion.
How do you reel yourself in in times like those? I have to assume all sorts of things were going through your head.April Ryan: Let me say this: One, it was bigger than me.
And I was in shock, literally. It was like, they may have wanted to push my buttons but I was just in shock. I’ve been there for 25 years and I understand the decorum, I didn’t do anything wrong by asking the questions.
But what I was not going to let them do is negate all the work that my mother and my father — who are passed on — everybody who poured into me all of my life [had done].
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