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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump, famously known as Donald Trump is an American entrepreneur, a businessman who deals in real estate properties, who is a founder of Trump Entertainment resorts and also is a Chairman and CEO of Trump Organization.

He owns several casinos and hotels across the world under Trump Entertainment resorts and also produces and runs a TV show, The Apprentice which has been very successful. He is known for his straight-from-the-shoulder style of talking and his flamboyance.

This billionaire was born on June, 14-1946. Queens, New York City is his birthplace. He was second youngest kid. His father was Fred Trump, an eminent Real-estate businessman, and also a very wealthy one. So things were a bit easy for Donald from his birth especially with the silver spoon with him.

He grew up and became very much interested in his dad's business. He completed his studies from Fordham University and University of Pennsylvania studying Science and Economics and also Finance as his subjects. As soon as he was done with books and classrooms he directly joined the Trump Organization in 1964 which his father had started. He got some splendid success in his initial phase of his career. The renovation of the Commodore Hotel, the Trump tower in New York, some residential complexes in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten etc. proved he has an excellent business eye.

Later on he became very successful and shifted his concentration to entertainment and casino business. He improved his Atlantic City casino business and gave a new life to it by acquiring the Taj Mahal Casino. He was highly successful during the 80s and early 90s. But soon as 90s progressed, he got surmounted with lots of debt due to several projects being started in parallel. His Trump Plaza hotel filed for bankruptcy. Many believed that he would crumble down but he didn't, he survived and came out with flying colors.

He made several other real-estate projects as well like the Trump international tower and hotel in Chicago, Toronto, and Honolulu. Recently too he was believed to be stretched a lot financially when his Entertainment and Resorts business filed a bankruptcy last year but his close associates believe that he will definitely make through it as well like previous encounters.

Trump had 3 marriages and his present wife is Melina Trump. He has 5 children in total from different marriages. He is also indulged in several ventures presently like he owns the Miss Universe Organization, the NBC reality show - the Apprentice which too was highly successful. He has also been noted to take interest and invest in World Wrestling Entertainment aka WWE. The chairman of WWE Vince MacMohan is a friend of Trump and he has held several events in Trump Plaza and Taj Mahal hotel in Atlantic City. He is personally interested in Golf and plays it a lot at several of his owned cources.

Why is Donald Trump famous?

Donald Trump is famous as a flamboyant businessman and whose net worth is around $2 billion today despite several financial hiccups during his career.

Why do we love Donald Trump?

Trump has shown good spirit in toughest of times. He has written several books to inspire people. He has an excellent business eye and has proved himself. He is an ace entrepreneur.