Donald Trump

Business Personality / TV Personality / U.S. President

Born: 14 June 1946
Birthplace: New York City, New York
Best known as: The mogul and reality show star who ran for president in 2016
Donald Trump was elected as the 45th president of the United States in elections on November 8, 2016.
He will be sworn in to succeed President Barack Obama on January 20, 2017. It will be the first time
Trump has held public office. Previously he was best known as a property developer and businessman
who made his name synonymous with New York-sized hustle, money and ego, and for his starring role on
the reality show The Apprentice. Donald Trump attended Fordham University for two years before
transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his undergraduate
degree in 1968. (He did not get an MBA there, as is sometimes reported.) Trump then started young in his
father's New York real estate business, and by the 1970s had made himself a Manhattan deal-maker,
somehow talking banks and city government into financing his ambitious developments. He built the
grandiose Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in 1982, and soon he moved into the casino business in New
Jersey. Outspoken and flamboyant, Donald Trump became a favorite of the press, and his multiple
marriages and divorces were regular tabloid fodder. (Trump was married to model Ivana Zelnicek from
1977-92 and to Marla Maples from 1993-99. He married his third wife, Slovenian model Melania Knauss,
on 22 January 2005.) Trump went suddenly on the skids in 1990, finding himself over $900 million in debt
and facing bankruptcy. But ever the dealmaker, he rebounded; by the year 2000 he was again worth over
a billion dollars. He talked publicly about running for the U.S. presidency the same year, then decided
against it. In 2004 he began playing the demanding boss-man in what became a long-running NBC reality
series, The Apprentice. ("You're fired," his ritualistic dismissal of the show's losers, became a popular
catch-phrase.) He also made noises about running for president in the elections of 2008 and 2012, but
never formally tossed his hat in the ring until June of 2015, when he said "I am officially running for
president of the United States." He quickly became the Republican front-runner, both loved and hated for
his brash statements on all topics, like his demand for a wall between the U.S. and Mexico (paid for by
Mexicans) and his call for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our
country's representatives can figure out what is going on." Trump's last remaining competitors dropped
out of the race in May of 2016, leaving him as the presumptive Republican nominee for 2016. He named
Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate in July that year, and a week later was officially
nominated at the GOP convention on July 19, 2016. He faced Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton (wife of
former president Bill Clinton) in the general election, winning in a shocking upset after a campaign in
which Clinton had held steady leads in most polls. His books include Trump: The Art of the
Deal (1988), Trump: Surviving at the Top (1990), Trump: The Art of the Comeback (1997); Trump: How to
Get Rich (2004); and Crippled America (2015).
Extra credit:
Donald Trumps nickname is The Donald Donald Trump has three children with his wife Ivana: Donald
Jr. (b. 1977), Ivanka (b. 1981) and Eric (b. 1984); he has one daughter with Maples, Tiffany Trump (b.
1993); and he has a son with Knauss, Barron, born in March of 2006 Trump is famous for his objection
to handshakes; a 1999 Timemagazine article quoted him as saying I think the handshake is barbaric
Shaking hands, you catch the flu, you catch this, you catch all sorts of things Another germophobic
casino-owning billionaire was Howard Hughes.

VLADIMIR PUTINS BIOGRAPHY

Childhood
An ordinary family
Vladimir Putin was born on October 7, 1952
in Leningrad. I come from an ordinary family,
and this is how I lived for a long time, nearly
my whole life. I lived as an average, normal
person and I have always maintained that
connection, Mr Putin recalls.

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