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.
Watch Donald Trump Stumble Through Jan. 7 Speech Outtakes: ‘I Don’t Want to Say the Election Is Over’ (Video)
thewrap.comThursday’s Jan. 6 hearing by the House Special Committee revealed bizarre new behind-the-scenes footage from the taping of Donald Trump’s speech to the nation following the Jan.
6 riot at the capitol, including his signature refusal to concede the election results, as well as several outtakes in which he stumbled over simple words.From “defiled” to “yesterday,” the former president struggled to get the words out during the taping and quibbled about the content of the speech while being coached by staffers off-screen.He started, “I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday, and to those who broke the law, you will pay.
You do not represent our movement. You do not represent our country. And if you broke the law — you can’t say that. I’m not gonna… I already said, ‘you will pay.’In another outtake, he complained he wasn’t able to see the speech well enough, causing another fumble. “The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defied the seat – it’s defiled, right?
See, I can’t see it very well. Okay, I’ll do this. I’m going to do this. Let’s go.”Later, he said “I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday — ‘Yesterday’ is a hard word for me… Take the word ‘Yesterday’ out because it doesn’t work with ‘heinous attack on our country.'”But his most pointed objection — and the moment with the most relevance to the Jan.
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