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.
‘Separated’ Review: Director Errol Morris Denounces Trump Administration Family Separation Policy In Powerful Documentary – Venice Film Festival
deadline.comAccepting his party’s nomination for president for the third time, Donald Trump addressed the Republican National Convention in July, returning to a familiar theme. “We… have an illegal immigration crisis, and it’s taking place right now, as we sit here in this beautiful arena,” he told delegates. “It’s a massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease, and destruction to communities all across our land.
Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.” Never mind that ABC News fact checkers called his assertion false, writing, “There is no evidence of a major surge in crime caused by recent arrivals and Trump’s claims ignore the fact that crime is down across the country overall.” Never mind, either, that Trump tanked a bipartisan bill that would have addressed immigration reform.
When you’ve got an issue that works for you, you keep pounding away at it. Because the demonization of migrants plays so well to the MAGA base, we cannot rule out that Trump, if he wins election in November, will not reimpose his administration’s ignominious “family separation” policy that tore children from their parents, and produced images of kids – sudden wards of the U.S.
government — cloaked in foil blankets, sleeping on cement floors in pens. For those who have forgotten what that looked like (and many have) Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris arrives to remind us with his documentary Separated, which just made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
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