1- His full name is Donald John Trump.
2- Donald Trump is 78 years old; he was born on June 14, 1946, in New York City, New York.
3- Trump has had three political affiliations. He was Independent from 2011-2012, Democratic from pre-1987 to 2009, and Republican at present.
4- He has been married three times. First to Ivana Zelnickova from 1977-1991, Marla Maples from 1993-1999, and Melania Knauss from 2005 to the present.
5- He is the second youngest of five children.
6- Trump does not smoke or drink. The death of a sibling, his older brother Red Jr., urged Donald toward these decisions.
7- He is of German and Scottish ancestry.
8- He had a famous uncle, John G. Trump, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who had the distinction of being allowed by the FBI in 1943 to examine famed inventor Nikola Tesla‘s papers and equipment when Tesla passed away that year.
9- Trump’s family fortune began when his grandfather Frederick Trump pulled in a fortune by operating restaurants and boarding houses in the boom towns of Seattle and Klondike, Canada.
10- His family’s name was originally Drumpf or Drumpft but changed to Trump when the Thirty Years’ War occurred in the 1600s.
11- He attended the New York Military Academy, aka NYMA, to whom he credits much of his success.
12- Trump attended Fordham University, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated from Wharton in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.
13- Trump avoided being drafted into the military by getting four student deferments. After being determined twice to be fit for duty, he got a 1-Y medical deferment in October of 1968. Then, in December 1969, he received a high placement number in the draft lottery that exempted him from service.
14- His first real estate venture was with his family’s company, Elizabeth Trump & Son, which he took control of in 1971 and renamed The Trump Organization. In 1973, the company faced controversy when the Justice Department accused it of racial discrimination in its housing practices. Without admitting wrongdoing, the company reached a settlement with the DOJ to resolve the issue.
15- Donald Trump made his first major real estate deal in Manhattan with the remodeling of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in 1978.
16- His signature base of operations, Trump Tower, was completed in 1983.
17- Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy, but he filed for bankruptcy six times for his business properties between 1991 and 2009.
18- Donald Trump owns and operates around 18 golf courses around the world.
19- At one time, Trump was part owner of three major beauty pageants. From 1996 to 2015, he partly owned Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA.
20- From 2005 until 2010, Trump owned and ran the Trump University LLC, where his courses covered real estate training.
21- He once ran the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which was established in 1988 but shut down by the NY State Attorney General’s office in 2013 for multiple violations.