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.
Jurnee Smollett Calls For Cook County To “#FreeJussie” Following Brother Jussie Smollett’s Thursday Sentencing
deadline.comActress Jurnee Smollett has called for Cook County to “#FreeJussie” on the heels of her brother Jussie Smollett’s Thursday sentencing to 150 days in jail for staging a fake hate crime back in 2019.“Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly five times the rate of White Americans.
Jussie is innocent,” the younger Smollett wrote on Instagram on Saturday. “And…you don’t have to believe in his innocence to believe he should be free. #FreeJussie #StopLockingUpOurPeople.”Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett’s incarceration for the Chicago incident, which saw him file false police reports, comes as part of an overall sentence that includes 30 months of probation, $120,106 in restitution to the city and an additional $25,000 in fines. “I am not suicidal.
If anything happens to me in [jail], I did not do it,” the actor exclaimed as he was led out of the courtroom upon sentencing. “I am not suicidal, I am innocent!”Smollett called the police on January 29, 2019, claiming that two men in ski masks had attacked him outside of his apartment building, while spewing racial and homophobic slurs and exclaiming, “This is MAGA Country,” in reference to former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
While news of the purported attack initially generated an outpouring of support for Smollett, he later became the subject of a criminal investigation, and was charged by a grand jury with a class 4 felony for filing a false police report in February of that same year.
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