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.
Lawrence O’Donnell Hits Donald Trump Where It Hurts: ‘This Is a Very Low-Rated Convention’
variety.comMichaela Zee MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell took a swipe at night one of the Republican National Convention, where former President Donald Trump made his first public appearance after his attempted assassination.
Sitting in on a panel with Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid, O’Donnell said on MSNBC Tuesday that the event was a “very low-rated convention” for Trump. “I think it’s one of the reasons why he went there,” O’Donnell said on TV. “And I think even if he hadn’t been attacked, there’s a possibility he would have gone to try to pump up his ratings.
He did everything he could to pump up Monday night’s ratings that are lower than the Monday night ratings of his 2016 convention.” The first telecasts of the RNC on Monday drew in 18.1 million viewers across 12 cable news and broadcast networks, per Nielsen.
For comparison, in 2016, the RNC drew approximately 23 million viewers across seven networks. On Fox News, roughly 6.9 million viewers tuned in to the 2024 convention. “So that’s six million ardent Trump supporters is the most they can get,” O’Donnell said. “Less than 10 percent of ardent Trump voters decided, ‘I’m going to watch this thing last night.'” “That’s really not that much of a bump for Fox,” Maddow replied. “I’ve written episodes of drama series that have gotten bigger ratings,” O’Donnell said with a laugh, referencing his tenure as a writer and producer of “The West Wing,” the Emmy-winning NBC drama. “I used to get 20 million people routinely on Wednesday nights at 9 p.m.” Trump is famously obsessed with ratings, a fixation he developed as host of “The Apprentice,” the NBC series that ran from 2004 through 2015.
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