Know who Donald Trump was before he became president of the United States

The tycoon received criticism despite his great business successes.

Donald John Trump was born in the year 1946 in New York City, his parents Fred Trump and Mary Anne McLeod, and his older brother Fred.

In 1977, Donald Trump married Ivana Zelníčková, a Czech model, with whom he had three children: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric.

Donald Trump Education

In 1964 at age 13, Donald enrolled in the New York Military Academy. In 1968 he became the captain of the baseball team and was chosen as "the ladies' man" in the yearbook published that same year.

After the Military Academy, he enrolled at Fordham University. Two years later he went to the University of Pennsylvania business school, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics in 1968.

Donald's college years were high on Vietnam War notoriety, resulting in four postponements on his project's delivery.

Until now, it is not known what type of student Trump was, but in 2015, Michael Cohen, his lawyer, threatened to initiate legal action against the institutions where he studied, in case of disclosing his academic records.

Trump Business World

The father was a major real estate agent. Donald's older brother was disowned by his father for not following his example and refusing to become part of the family business. Donald was the one who ended up in real estate.

In making this decision, the father decided to have Donald meet people from New York high society. Some of them were Ed Koch, who was the mayor of the city, and Roy Cohn, who was the prince of darkness in US politics and ended up mentoring Donald Trump.

However, in 1984 Roy Cohn was diagnosed with AIDS, which he tried to hide by saying he had cancer. His health condition was combined with a stage of accusations of corruption in his work, which caused Donald Trump to abandon him.

For Trump, the 1970s were a huge success as he rose through the ranks of the business world in his hometown. To achieve this, he did so with a small loan from his father of one million dollars.

According to investigations carried out by The New York Times newspaper, the real loan made by his father was about 60 million dollars and not a million as he said at the time. In addition to this, the trust fund, donations, other loans and privileges from his father.

At the age of 25, he became the president of the family business 'The Trump Organization', based in Manhattan, where he was dedicated to the development of various construction and real estate projects, as well as the management of hotels and properties in different countries. world level.

Shortly after becoming president of the company, he achieved his first business successes, including the development of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, next to New York's Grand Central Terminal, and the construction of the Javits Center.

man of controversies

Donald Trump has always been in controversies, one of the most striking was related to racism. According to an investigation by the United States Department of Justice, it indicated that applications by African-Americans were not accepted in the apartment buildings that were part of the tycoon's properties.

The Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York, was also part of the controversies. It had not been built and had already become a controversy. On the site, the historic Bonwit Teller building was torn down to make way for a 58-story skyscraper.

The tycoon stated in an article in The New York Times, in 1990, that 200 undocumented Polish immigrants worked in said construction of Trump Tower and he had no information about it.

Expansion of the Trump empire

In the 1980s, Trump went from a successful businessman and tycoon to a very famous media man. Many also cataloged him as an infamous guy.

Little by little his empire expanded on the outskirts of the city. In 1985, Trump obtained a National Historic Landmark listed estate called Mar-a-Lago, located in Palm Beach, Florida.

In his expansion work he was in charge of building casinos, hotels in Atlantic City. These new business proposals, not all went well. In the case of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino, it filed for bankruptcy shortly after opening its doors.

Trump in the sports world

In 1980, Trump entered the professional sports world, becoming the duel of the defunct New Jersey Generals, a team that was part of the United States Soccer League in 1983.

The Professional American Football League was about to face the NFL, a much more advanced and consolidated competition among fans.

At the insistence of the businessman, the new league would be played in the fall and winter, so that the competition would be merged later. However, after three decades, the League disappeared due to legal disputes with the NFL.

Donald Trump economic crisis

In 1990 the situation began to worsen for Trump, so several of his casinos and hotels began to declare bankruptcy, two years after his inauguration.

The image of a successful businessman has been criticized by detractors throughout his life, as they claim that behind the image of a millionaire, there is an unpayable debt.

In 1991, Trump in an interview assured that he plays with the bankruptcy laws, since he considers them good for him. In that year, he could no longer hide his economic status, so he accepted that he was bankrupt. When this information was made public, he knew how to recover his image and overcome it.

Donald Trump as a brand

As his name became a brand, he eventually decided to sell it for board games, products, and advertisements.

And so, the world of entertainment was the new refuge for who would be the next president of the United States.

Before long she became one of the main sponsors of the Miss America beauty pageant. In 2000 he was the presenter of the reality show 'The Apprentice', based on the world of business.

After these long experiences, teachings, successes and failures, he wrote one of the most turbulent chapters in the history of the United States, being its 45th president, becoming the most controversial.