Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States

Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th and current president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.

Trump graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. He became president of the Trump family real estate business in 1971 and focused on luxury accommodations. After a series of business bankruptcies in the 1990s, he launched several side ventures. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted and coproduced the reality television series The Apprentice.

Trump won the 2016 presidential election as the Republican nominee. His immigration policy included a travel ban targeting Muslims and refugees and expanding the U.S.–Mexico border wall; he also briefly implemented a family separation policy. He rolled back more than 100 environmental policies and regulations, signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, initiated a trade war with China in 2018, and withdrew the U.S. from international agreements on climate, trade, and the nuclear program of Iran. Trump was the first sitting U.S. president to enter North Korea; he met with its leader Kim Jong Un without progress on denuclearization. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he downplayed its severity, contradicted guidance from international public health bodies, and signed the CARES Act economic stimulus. He was impeached in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and in 2021 for incitement of insurrection; the Senate acquitted him in both cases. After his first term, scholars and historians ranked Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history. Trump won the 2024 election as the Republican nominee, and became the second president in U.S. history, following Grover Cleveland, to be elected to nonconsecutive terms.

Trump's politics led to the Trumpism movement. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged, racist, and misogynistic. He promoted conspiracy theories and made false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency to a degree unprecedented in American politics. He lost the 2020 presidential election but did not concede, falsely claiming widespread electoral fraud and attempting to overturn the results, including through his involvement in the January 6 Capitol attack. In civil proceedings, he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation in 2023, and financial fraud in 2024. He was found guilty of falsifying business records in May 2024 and sentenced to unconditional discharge in January 2025, making him the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. Two felony indictments related to interference in the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents were dismissed without prejudice following his victory in the 2024 election.

Family

Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at Jamaica Hospital in the New York City borough of Queens, the fourth child of Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump. He is of German and Scottish descent. He grew up with his older siblings, Maryanne, Fred Jr., and Elizabeth, and his younger brother, Robert, in a mansion in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens.

In 1977, Trump married Czech model Ivana Zelníčková. They had three children: Donald Jr. (b. 1977), Ivanka (b. 1981), and Eric (b. 1984). The couple divorced in 1990, following his affair with model and actor Marla Maples. He and Maples married in 1993 and divorced in 1999. They have one daughter, Tiffany (b. 1993), whom Maples raised in California. In 2005, he married Slovenian model Melania Knauss. They have one son, Barron (b. 2006).

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Sources

• Bannerman, Alexander, Julie Helen Otto and Gary Boyd Roberts. "The ancestry of President Donald John Trump: an initial investigation." American Ancestors 18, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 50-1. < link > Accessed 26 June 2019.
• "Donald Trump." Wikipedia, revision of 20 January 2025. < link > Accessed 20 January 2025.
• "The Weddings and Wives of Donald Trump." The Knot, published 10 November 2020. < link > Accessed 24 December 2021.

External links

• 'Trump Revealed': The Reporting Archive -- a collection of more than 407 documents from Trump's life, including family history sources
• Subject: Trump, Donald -- items connected to Donald Trump in the Library of Congress
• Query: Donald Trump -- items connected to Donald Trump in the National Archives
• USA.gov: Donald Trump -- official government photos from his presidency
• "An unusual first family" The Washington Post. By Karly Domb Sadof and Danielle Rindler. Jan. 13, 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
• “KALLSTADT DISPATCH - Trump’s Ancestral Village Abounds With His Relatives. Few Admit a Link.” The New York Times. By Katrin Bennhold, July 2, 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
• "Donald John Trump & Melanija Knavs." Florida County Marriages via MyHeritage. < link > Accessed 20 January 2025.