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.
Judge Limits Biden Administration Contact With Social Media Companies
deadline.comA federal judge in Louisiana has issued a ruling that restricts parts of the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies on “protected speech.” The ruling Tuesday by U.S.
District Court Judge Terry Doughty, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, is in response to a 2022 lawsuit spearheaded by Republican-led states alleging that the administration pressured social media companies to address postings that could result in vaccine hesitancy during the Covid pandemic or affect elections.
Doughty issued a sweeping preliminary injunction barring numerous federal officials and agencies from talking to social media companies for “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech,” according to the ruling (read it here). “During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth,’” Doughty wrote in his 155-page opinion.
While the lawsuit named President Biden and officials in 11 government agencies, some of the instances cited took place during the Trump administration.
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