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.
Shirley MacLaine on Sticking Up for Julia Roberts on ‘Steel Magnolias,’ Working With Hitchcock and Her Gross Donald Trump Encounter
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor Shirley MacLaine is making a ghastly racket. It sounds like a combination of retching and the “aack” noise that the protagonist of that old “Cathy” comic strip used to make whenever she was nauseated, horrified, infuriated or you name it.
We’re discussing an encounter that MacLaine had with Donald Trump in the ’80s, when she went to look at an apartment in one of his buildings. “In his head, I could see he was undressing himself and me, and I got out of there very fast,” MacLaine writes in her new book, “The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories From This Marvelous Lifetime.” MacLaine is even more animated when I ask her what she made of the real estate developer turned MAGA leader. “Did you hear me shriek?” she asks. “I think that says it all.” She pauses for dramatic effect before delivering a final, emphatic: “Yuck!” Even at 90, MacLaine, an Oscar-winning screen legend, is outrageously, unapologetically herself, holding forth on everyone from Billy Wilder (“brilliant but difficult”) to Jimmy Carter (“the friendliest man”) to Peter Sellers (“He stayed in character the whole time”) in a book that is equal parts memoir and photo album.
The title refers to a wall of MacLaine’s Malibu home that was covered with snapshots of her friends and family, as well as the roughly 70 years she spent on stage and screen. “As I was staring at the pictures one day, the past kind of came and visited me again,” MacLaine, who is calling from her house in New Mexico, says.
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