Donald Trump, whose biography and achievements still arouse great interest to this day, is a world-famous businessman. His success story is unusual. He did not come from a poor family, who all his life dreamed of becoming one of the people. The biography of a businessman like Donald Trump turned out somewhat differently. From birth he was a millionaire.

His father was a construction magnate who worked in New York. His name was Fred Trump. He was a fairly successful developer, although not that famous. Neat, decent and tough, Fred was able to earn about $20 million. And Donald, his son, managed to increase his father's wealth, making his family billionaires.

Origin of the future businessman, childhood

On June 14, 1946, Donald Trump was born (his photo is presented in the article). He was not the only child in his family. Mary and Fred Trump had three more children besides him. However, only Donald was able to continue his father’s work, since he was the only one who possessed the aggression and pressure necessary to successfully run a business.

Already from childhood, these qualities began to appear in his character. When Trump turned 13, his parents sent him to the New York Military Academy. They decided to take this step largely because their son was practically uncontrollable. A harsh environment was needed to curb his temper. Trump learned a lot at the military academy. He later recalled that it was here that he understood how to survive among numerous competitors.

My father had a pretty strong connection with Fred, who felt that Donald Trump would be the one to follow in his footsteps. The biography of his son in subsequent years completely confirmed his guesses. Trump took after his father and adopted many skills and qualities from him, including the ability to influence and motivate people, even the powerful (for example, local mayors).

Donald Trump, after graduating from the academy, entered Fordham College. However, he did not manage to stay here for long, since he was not at all interested in studying at college. Donald was determined about what he would do in the future. Having strengthened his opinion, he entered the University of Commerce, located in Pennsylvania. It was here that such a successful businessman as Donald Trump spent his student years. His biography during these years is marked by interesting details.

Student years

Donald Trump is known today largely due to his very extraordinary image. This is not only but also a TV star. Donald is the host of the reality show "The Candidate", the theme of which is business. He was married to three women. He is often given the title of playboy. However, oddly enough, Donald Trump did not show himself in any way during his student years. He did not smoke, did not drink, and was not famous for his love affairs. Moreover, Donald generally avoided student events. His fellow students recalled that all of Trump’s thoughts at that time were already about New York.

First projects

Trump, after graduating from university, began working at his father's company. Swifton Village is one of the first projects in which Donald Trump took part. His biography interested many businessmen after the completion of construction. Swifton Village is a large complex of 1,200 apartments located in Ohio. The project was noted because the state decided to finance the work of Fred Trump's company. Funds were allocated even more than was necessary for the construction of the complex, which is quite remarkable. The Trumps loved to carry out socially significant projects, and it more than paid off. Having spent $6 million on the work, they were able to sell the complex for $12 million. That is, they received 6 million.

Donald, working on the first projects, realized that Fred did not want to go further. His father tried to implement projects that were designed for the poor. On the one hand, this had its advantages - lower taxes, help from the city leadership. However, Donald understood that big money could only be obtained from rich people who were not accustomed to saving.

Trump has been developing routine projects for some time. He set about making connections (it’s good that his father could help him with this). Donald also loved to wander around New York. During these walks he studied urban architecture. Trump waited, and the wait was worth it.

Restoration of the Commodore Hotel

Donald won a bid from the railroad company to buy the Commodore Hotel in 1974. He was in very poor condition and could no longer function. Donald undertook to restore it. At the same time, he was able to achieve phenomenal conditions from the city authorities - to pay reduced taxes for this hotel for 40 years.

But Trump's deal-making talent didn't stop there. Having learned that the Hyatt Hotel Corporation was looking for a place for a hotel in New York City, Donald offered his services to the company. As a result of all this, in 1980, in the city center, on the site of the old Commodore, there was a Grand Hyatt, restored by Trump.

Soon after this successful deal, the whole of New York learned who Donald Trump was. Donald gradually began to make a name for himself.

Skyscraper Trump Tower

His new project brought him even greater popularity. It was the Trump Tower skyscraper, located on Fifth Avenue, a tall building of 68 floors. What’s interesting is how Trump chose the location for its construction. He decided that the building should be located opposite the Tiffany store. Donald had two reasons for this:

• Wealthy people often pass by this store;
• Tiffany always chooses the best places in the city.

The bet turned out to be correct - the rich noticed the skyscraper. Donald subsequently often recalled his time working on this project. He spent 14 hours a day on the construction site, suffered from lack of sleep and fired many people. After some time, the project was completed and highly appreciated by the city residents.

It must be said that American businessman Donald Trump made another skillful marketing move - he gave his name to the skyscraper. Already at this time, Donald began to promote the brand of his name. The press ridiculed him, saying that Trump was already building monuments to himself. This may have been true, but construction firms around the world are now willing to pay huge amounts of money to be given the opportunity to use the Trump name in their activities.

Success of Trump Tower

Donald soon saw how the rich spent their money. Expensive apartments and offices in the skyscraper he built were bought up instantly. Trump Tower has become a symbol of luxury. The situation on the New York market quickly began to get complicated. Donald's competitors began to lower prices, but he did not follow their example. On the contrary, Trump even raised them. The businessman believed that status for rich people is valued much higher than money. And Donald’s calculation turned out to be correct. The Trump brand soon became a symbol of luxury and New York skyscrapers.

Achievements in the field of gambling business

Meanwhile, businessman Donald Trump began studying the profitable gambling business. He began working actively in this field in 1977 in New Jersey. Trump purchased a plot of land located in Atlantic City in 1980. Donald put Robert, his younger brother, in charge of the project to obtain business licenses, land titles, financing and all sorts of permits. Holiday Inns offered the brothers a partnership agreement. As a result, the Harrah's Casino Hotel appeared in the Trump Plaza complex in 1982. $250 million was invested in this project.

Trump bought out Holiday Inns in 1986 and also gave his establishment a new name - Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. After corporations did not agree to issue him a license to conduct a gambling business, Donald also bought a casino hotel located in Atlantic City, owned by Hilton Hotels. After that, he named this complex, which costs $320 million, Trump's Castle. Somewhat later, the businessman had the opportunity to purchase the world's largest casino hotel, the Taj Mahal, which was under construction. It was opened in 1990

Unrealized project

Also in the 1980s, Trump purchased an apartment building in New York with the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel adjacent to it. This hotel overlooked Central Park. Trump intended to carry out a large construction project on this site. But the struggle of the building's tenants, who were protected by rent control programs, ended in Donald's defeat.

Then the businessman decided to reconstruct Barbizon, turning it into Trump Parc. Donald purchased about 307 sq. m. in 1985. km of land located in the western part of Manhattan. The purchase cost him $88 million. The businessman’s plans were to build a Television City complex on this site. It was supposed to consist, according to the project, of a shopping center, a dozen skyscrapers and a park overlooking the river. It was a huge undertaking. The implementation of the project would bring the world the tallest building on earth. However, its implementation did not take place due to public opposition, as well as red tape in obtaining a construction permit from the city authorities.

Luck changes for Trump

Fate has not always been kind to a businessman like Donald Trump. His life story was marked by a very difficult period.

The real estate market crashed in 1990. This resulted in a decrease in the assessed value and profits of Donald's empire. At one point, the value of his network, which was $1.7 billion, dropped to $500 million. In order to protect the business from collapse, Trump needed to make many third-party injections. Because of this, there were rumors that Donald's company had gone bankrupt. Some believe the fall of Donald Trump's empire is symbolic of what awaits the economic, social and business giants emerging from the 1980s.

Trump may have been blinded by his rapid success. His business was built on a rather risky basis: Donald took money from banks to purchase his projects and construction. Trump has always been successful, which reduced the vigilance of not only him, but also his creditors. They began to give money to the businessman just for his name. As a result, billionaire Trump, whose biography is marked by many successful transactions, began to understand less and less about their essence. He became the owner of a football team, several golf clubs and casinos in Atlantic City, an airline, not very profitable construction projects, a brand of vodka, a huge yacht called Trump Princess, groceries, etc. Meanwhile, a real estate crisis was brewing, which we talked about . As a result of all this, Donald ended up with a debt of $9.8 billion!

The press hit the businessman most brutally at that moment. The newspapers wrote that Donald's luck had run out, that he had quit the game, loosened his grip, and much more. Of course, this hit his pride. Donald was starting to get nervous. The creditors were barely persuaded to wait. Trump even decided to include his property in the cost of the loan - a huge skyscraper located in the city center. Donald found himself in a situation where all his wealth could be destroyed overnight. Moreover, nothing would remain after this of Fred's business, which served as the basis for everything that Trump achieved. The situation was aggravated by the fact that a businessman like Donald Trump began to have big problems in his personal life. A photo of him with Ivana, his first wife, is presented below.

Donald's wife (a supermodel from Czechoslovakia), who gave birth to three children to the businessman, suddenly lost interest in her husband. Constant quarrels began, ending in divorce, which also required additional expenses.

Trump's rehabilitation

However, Donald still managed to gradually get out of the crisis and pay off his creditors. Of course, most of his business was lost, but it is unlikely that billionaire Donald, who was already valued at $2 billion in 1997, would have greatly regretted the rest of the money.

New projects

Donald Trump implemented a rather bold project in 2001. He decided to build the 72-story Trump World Tower skyscraper opposite the tall 50-story UN building. opposed this, but Donald was not deterred by his statement.

Today, Donald Trump, whose success story has become known throughout the world, is also the owner of the Taj Mahal, one of the largest casinos in all of Atlantic City. Speaking about the history of his purchase, it should be noted that Donald was helped here by connections with the city authorities. He was one of the first to learn that it was planned to turn this place into a second Las Vegas, so land prices would be reduced. In addition to the casino, Donald also has his own golf course, as well as a number of clubs that are very popular. It’s interesting that casinos once played a key role in Trump’s life. They became the main source with which the businessman repaid his loans.

Television appearances, political activities

Donald Trump, according to a study conducted by Forbes magazine, is the most famous entrepreneur in the United States. He is even more famous than Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. How did he manage to gain such popularity? Probably thanks to television. Trump is a frequent guest of the American channel NBC.

The businessman began hosting his own reality show “The Apprentice” in 2003. Its participants are given special tasks. If they decide, the winner is guaranteed a position as a top manager at Trump's firm. The show became very successful and brought great fame to Donald. At the same time, Trump became the highest paid presenter in the United States. For each episode of this television project, his fee is estimated at $3 million.

Trump loves the beautiful life and adores luxury. By the way, it is Donald who organizes the Miss Universe competition. A rich and famous businessman, he became a real favorite of the people. Donald became famous for his ability to speak in public. Several times he tried to nominate himself for the position of President of the United States. Trump has created many books about doing business that have become real bestsellers.

In 2012, the American businessman returned to the political arena. He said that he was going to nominate himself for the presidency. However, his association with the radical "birther" group, which believes that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, discredited him as a politician. Despite this, Trump continues to make rather harsh statements about the current president of America. And not only about the place of his birth, but also about many points of the policy pursued by him.

Personal life

Not everything is going smoothly in the personal life of this entrepreneur. Donald Trump has admitted more than once that he has a great passion for beautiful girls. But he never managed to build a happy family. From his first marriage to Ivana, he had three children. However, they did not keep the family from falling apart. Pictured below are Donald Trump and his family. The photo dates back to the 1980s.

Donald married the actress in 1993. The couple's daughter was born 2 months before the wedding. But this marriage was not destined to be the last. In 1997, divorce proceedings between the spouses began, which caused a lot of noise. It ended only in 1999. Maples received $2 million under the prenuptial agreement.

In 2005, Donald decided to get married again. His wedding to Melania Knauss, a famous model from Slovenia, became a big event in the world of celebrities. In March 2006, Barron William Trump was born - the first-born of Melania Knauss and the 5th child of a businessman. The photo below shows Donald Trump and his wife.

It is unknown whether this marriage will be strong. American billionaire Donald Trump, whose biography was so successful, is no longer young. He once said of his problems with his ex-wives that it was difficult for them to compete with what Trump loves most. Business always remained in the first place in the life of this entrepreneur, and his spouses were forced to put up with this. It couldn’t have been any other way in the life of a billionaire passionate about real estate.

Trump's dream

Today, few people do not know who Donald Trump is, especially in the United States. However, despite his enormous wealth and venerable age, he still has an unfulfilled dream - to create a project that will forever write his name in world history, which will be talked about for centuries. Well, let's see if such an outstanding businessman as Donald Trump will be able to realize this ambitious idea. The biography and achievements of this person suggest that he is capable of much.

A tycoon aspiring to the presidency of the United States suffered humiliation at a military school.

Donald in the family

Let's start with the fact that the paternal surname of the current presidential candidate was not Trump, but Drumpf. The billionaire's enemies had a lot of fun with the freak - they say, Drumpf would never have become a world-famous brand. It’s good that Donald’s grandfather, a German immigrant (like his grandmother), not knowing about the future difficulties of his future grandson with such a clumsy surname, thought of replacing it with a more sonorous one.

The Trump (Drumpf) family has lived in the States since 1885. After the usual emigrant ordeals, wandering in search of work “from sea to sea” and heading east, the first generation of Trumps successfully settled in New York Queens, laying the foundation of the family construction business there.

Donald Trump with his father

Father Fred Christ Trump was a large and successful residential developer in Queens and Brooklyn. Patiently, economically, but without compromising the quality of the building, with daily work to exhaustion (no vacations or weekends), Fred gradually expanded his business until he became the owner of his own building empire. By the time Donald was born on June 14, 1946, Fred was a millionaire.

Mother, Mary Ann McLeod, is from Scotland. As an eighteen-year-old young lady, she went to New York for the holidays, where she met a local builder and stayed. The wedding took place in 1936.

Mary Ann, finding herself in the unromantic provincial Queens, was very homesick, often visited the island town where she was born in 1912, and a couple of times took Donald, his two brothers and two sisters with her. The mother knew Gaelic and taught the children this mysterious language. Trips to Scotland, relatives there, snatches of Gaelic legends and songs that his mother still remembered - all this picturesque foreignness had a noticeable influence on the not very impressionable Donald, somehow shaping his personality. For most of his life, Trump was surrounded by immigrant women - from a Scottish woman - mothers before both wives: ex-wife Ivan and current Melania were born outside the United States. Trump felt more comfortable with them than with independent American women pumping up their feminist rights.

Donald was the fourth in a family of five children. The family was exemplary, the upbringing was strict, demanding, exacting. The children firmly knew their responsibilities, as well as the expectations of ambitious parents. A system of incentives, rewards and punishments was introduced. Thrift and respect for the dollar were cultivated.

The father refused the teenager Donald the coveted baseball glove - it was too expensive, you had to earn some money for it yourself. He didn’t allow me to practice on private golf courses: “What’s wrong with public parks?” His father's stinginess, and simply stinginess, oppressed Donald from childhood. He just loved to boast about family wealth, to show off in front of his neighbors, driving around with his father in a luxurious Cadillac.

Adult Donald Trump remembers himself as the darling of the family, the beloved son of a formidable father. In fact, the common favorite was the first-born - the charming, peace-loving Freddie, eight years older than Donald. It was on Freddie that all the family's hopes were pinned, but he resisted his father's imperious dictates, neglected his father's destiny, for which he was severely punished. It was later, after the fall of Freddie, that Donald would earn the title of “favorite son” and become the heir to his father’s business.

In the meantime, thirteen-year-old Donald is not only not a favorite, he is a malicious violator of statutory family decency. He experiences, but somehow too violently and unsightly for those around him, his prolonged stage of teenage rebellion against all sorts of authorities, laws and rules. He studies disgustingly at school, is rude, insolent and even spits. Completely uncontrollable. At the same time, he is arrogant, proud and self-confident beyond measure.

It seems to be a typical impulsive unconscious manifestation of a personality that is not yet aware of its size and limits. And if teenage rebellion is especially persistent, then here, psychologists say, an extraordinary, large-scale personality has emerged.

But Fred Trump had no time for psychological subtleties. Already puzzled by the willfulness of his eldest son, he does not intend to tolerate Donald’s rebellion. The presumptuous boy was a disgrace to an exemplary, respected family. His indomitability was considered by his father, and by the whole family, except for the kind-hearted Freddie, as a malicious hooliganism that must be eradicated.

The boy was removed from his home, from the liberal school, where he was pedagogically tolerated, and transported to the north of the state, to a military school - a remote branch of the New York Military Academy - where he was imprisoned without leaving for five whole years.

Without family. Punishment of Donald Trump

Sometime in the nineties, Steve Wynn, a gambling magnate and longtime friend-enemy-rival of Donald Trump, observed the sadistic gusto with which Trump - verbally and preemptively - dealt with an imaginary enemy, exclaimed: “How deeply disturbed he is mentally! How badly and dramatically injured! In childhood or when he was growing up - who did what to him?”

The military school where Fred Trump sent his rebellious son was in those years something like a correctional facility for minors. Before the impudent boy had time to get used to the new place, he was subjected to forced processing. He was bullied - verbally and disciplinaryly, he was insulted, humiliated, morally trampled, and when he tried to protest, indignation, complaint - he was beaten.

The harsh punishment of the arrogant newcomer was carried out with dashing variations, until the finished product was obtained: unquestioningly obedient, an enthusiast of discipline, a zealous follower of any orders - in short, an exemplary ideal cadet. The system did not fail. There were no punctures - not a single one.

Donald's first year at military school is a shock, a nightmare, a disaster. In addition to the official punitive measures, amateur, secretly statutory bullying of the senior cadets towards the newcomer was also added. In English - “hazing”.

The young Trump seems to have had enough of this hazing. He carried other people's underwear to the wash, polished his shoes, received leftovers for lunch, and resignedly endured any insults and continuous beatings.

This is what Donald Trump writes about his severely traumatized adolescence, spent in a military school instead of his home. The only place in his autobiography that is not painted in positive tones:

“It was called this: to knock this shitty arrogance out of you, all your damned arrogance - and without a trace. To be as good as new. Without any quirks there. Tough, rough guys. They came at you with a battle cry and - bang! - a blow, another blow and - off your feet! And you are already crawling to them for mercy, crushed, agreeing to everything in advance - “Yes, Sir!” If some guy did today what they did then, he'd get a quarter in the slammer!"

Yes, our Donald flew into this school colony in a big way! He perceived his misfortune as a father’s punishment-curse, but most importantly, undeserved. Punishment without crime. And when, five years later, he left this school, he realized that he had served his sentence in full.

At first, he internally resisted violence. And he even kept in his dormitory a photograph of his brother Freddie, a rebel and self-starter who chose the life and profession of a pilot - here he is standing next to an awesome plane.

But then Donald removed this photo. When I realized that self-preservation is not only fruitless, but also unprofitable.

And what to save? He did not perceive himself as his former self - a sasser and a brawler - and no longer remembered. That independent, brash boy was crushed and erased by his father's curse.

Another powerful incentive to survive in extremes was at work. Faint-hearted Freddie - if he got into such a mess - he would immediately break down. Donald was tough, assertive, thick-skinned enough to resist and recreate himself.

He became an exemplary, demonstrative cadet. He never left the honor roll, received academy awards, set sports records, and rose to the highest rank of battalion sergeant major among cadets. So - a little pictorially, virtually - already 18-year-old Donald Trump not only consoled his wounded pride, but - above all - tried to please his father, to justify his expectations.

When the brilliant cadet uniform was thrown off, a young man with a slightly twisted psyche emerged from the military school. There was fear in him. Fear of punishment for unknown reasons. A painful feeling of imminent danger and the constant hostility of the surrounding world. Awareness of the need for preventive self-defense: to be able to fight back in time and know your enemies.

Trump Education

After graduating from military school, 18-year-old Donald gratified his ambition a little with the illusion of a free choice of his future profession. He entertained the idea of ​​going not into construction, but into show business, enrolling in a screenwriting and directing course in California, joining Hollywood... and now he is a Hollywood star.

Dreams are unrealistic and dangerous. The father did not know about them and should not have known. The choice of a field for Donald was made by Frederick Trump, just as finally and irrevocably as the previously cruel, traumatic ordeal of the young Donald, who was forcibly removed from his family by military school.

Donald resignedly submitted to the will of his father, who chose a career as a real estate developer for him, was recognized - instead of Freddie, who was excommunicated from his birthright - as the heir to the family business, and the tempting prospects of his own brilliant success, supported by his father’s millions, were already flashing in his cinematic imagination.

He enters Fordham University, but after studying for two years, dissatisfied (“as if he had not studied at all”) Trump makes a giant breakthrough in his education - he encroaches on the famous and prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Where it is difficult to enter, and even more difficult to graduate.

Trump graduated from Wharton in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a minor in finance. “Years of study have transformed me.” Prospects and ways to enter large-scale “big” business have emerged. “After Wharton, you can’t go back.”

But I had to return. To his father's old-fashioned construction company for an ambitious Wharton graduate. For five whole years.

Donald at the bottom of the well. Years of vegetation: 1968–1973

By that time, Fred Trump was the leading real estate developer in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. He specialized in the complex construction of multi-apartment residential buildings designed for the middle class. Fred built durable, strong, high-quality, extremely economical buildings (typical six-story buildings predominated), unremarkable, standard. But it was of a fairly high standard and a mark of quality, catering to the needs and whims of wealthy renters. Fred was a successful entrepreneur and investor, and through patient, diligent, exhausting work and saving every penny, he slowly created and increased his construction empire.

In 1964, Fred carried out his most daring, enormous and, at the same time, proudly named project: the construction of Trump Village. This colossal (for the time and location) development in Brooklyn included seven powerful buildings of 23 floors each and its own shopping center. Never before has the cautious Trump, who barely graduated from high school, launched into action with such a scope and scope! I have never taken on such formidable obligations before!

In this family village, his creative powers and his mobile enterprise dried up. He no longer built conglomerates

When Donald, excited by Wharton's progressive ideas, returned to his father's mansion in Queens and then went to his father's office in Brooklyn - tight-fisted Fred ran his entire bulky business from a room in one of his apartment buildings - so there was 22-year-old Donald, scrolling crazy plans for rapid enrichment in my head, I was shocked and depressed by the pettiness of my father’s daring on construction sites.

When Donald began working at his father's company, large construction projects were no longer being developed there. The son managed, under the leadership of his father, to modernize the large Swifton Village apartment complex in Ohio, spending $6 million on it and selling it for $12 million, thus making a 100% profit. This was Donald's first project, implemented during his student years.

But basically, Trump’s construction company specialized not in construction, but in renting houses, selling or renting finished apartments. I had to serve the entire Trump apartment empire, which had spread across three city districts.

Inspecting their houses, and above all the colossal Trump Village, Fred and Donald were well aware of how they looked in the eyes of their thousands of renters - the first and second generations of typically German builders. And since a significant contingent in their buildings were Jews, the Trumps showed a certain delicacy and prudence, for many years assuring the press and all curious people that the family was from Sweden, not Germany. Which subsequently led to confusion and misunderstandings in determining Donald's nationality - many considered him to be a Swede.

Donald worked in his father's company, receiving a salary, for five years. Year after year, every month, he collected rent in Brooklyn, house to house, door to door, often accompanied by thugs to protect him from aggressive tenants. Wandering on the asphalt around construction sites did not suit the Wharton graduate, and Donald’s imagination instantly presented a saving option.

“My father intuitively knew how to build, and I learned this business mainly from him. But if there was one thing I was ahead of him in, it was in the concept of building. And also in scope...” More like in a scope, and Donald swung - for now in the imagination - to Manhattan, sensing that this area would become his gold mine.

The minimalism of Fred's claims, scanning the construction site with his eyes - where else to knock down, tearing out an extra nail from the ground: it will come in handy - offended the ambitious Donald. He wanted to sell apartments to billionaires who want to live on Fifth Avenue and are not used to saving.

I dreamed of conquering Manhattan. I dreamed to the point of mania. No clear plans, no business connections, no financial support. Depressed, visibly complex, confused, indelibly provincial (a guy from Queens with an accent - they will poke him at the zenith of wealth and fame). At 27 years old, he is a boy, his hair is disheveled, his personality is uncertain, mentally and emotionally clearly underdeveloped (he will remain like this for a long time, if not forever). It’s hard to believe that in five years the boy (while remaining a boy) will begin to galvanize Manhattan, which has decayed in the recession.

In the meantime, Donald Trump, having left the construction site and collected another rent from the residents of Trump Village, stands on the other side of the East River and looks at Manhattan. From day to day…

Every day hundreds of fake news, rumors, speculations and hypotheses are published on the Internet. One of the favorite topics of online trolls is versions of the origins of famous politicians. Their nationality is manipulated online depending on the political situation. Often theories in the style of “Hitler was actually an Arab” are stylized as scientific research for greater persuasiveness, although most of them are empty inventions, which are nevertheless believed by thousands of seemingly sane citizens. Lenta.ru studied these theories and tried to make sure that Obama is a real Jew, and Trump is a descendant of Rurik.

Kennedy - Cossack

On the website of the Ural Cossacks there is an interesting material called “John Kennedy a Cossack?” It turns out that the 35th President of the United States, contrary to his own words, is not Irish, but a hereditary Russian Cossack.

The author refers to the research of American historians and biographers Peter Szczepinski and Arthur Smile, who established that at the end of 1916, Kennedy’s mother Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald left her influential husband and lived for six months with an emigrant from Belarus, Vasily Prokopchuk, from whom the future head of state was born. Scientists, having studied Prokopchuk’s photograph, argued that John Kennedy is an exact copy of him.

Image: Hipstory by Amit Shimoni

The prominent businessman and statesman Joseph Patrick Kennedy hid his wife's adventures so as not to damage his reputation. But, according to biographers, they came across a letter in which the head of the family begged his wife to return. She did just that.

The story presented by the Ural Cossacks eight years ago was exaggerated in the media. Journalists vied with each other to write, citing American scientists, that Kennedy was either Russian or Ukrainian. Moreover, large publications (for example, Izvestia) referred not to the research of certain Shchepinsky and Smail, but to the Ukrainian newspaper Segodnya. The original source could not be found, as well as other works of these scientists. As a result, the media agreed that Kennedy was a Cossack, and the story turned into an online tale, rewritten many times in different ways.

Obama is Jewish

When the story promoted by politicians that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and not in the state of Hawaii, and therefore has no right to be the president of America, set teeth on edge, another story was born on the Internet: Obama is a Jew. Moreover, he is a real Jew, from his mother’s side. Not only is Obama Jewish, but so is his wife Michelle, née Robinson.

It’s clear where the rumors about Michelle’s Jewish origin came from: the former first lady’s cousin is a rabbi.

Talk about Obama's own Jewishness is also easy to explain. The black president, who opposed any discrimination, more than once spoke negatively about anti-Semites. And once, wanting to emphasize the importance of the problem of anti-Semitism, he called himself and all Americans Jews. “We are all Jews, because anti-Semitism is a distilled evil that runs through a huge layer of human history,” said the head of state.

Obama has been classified as a Jew before. For example, in 2008, when he paid a visit to Jerusalem and appeared at the Western Wall wearing a kippah. Then in 2015, when I visited my grandmother named Sarah in Nairobi. As a result, Obama entered the list of enemies number one on extremist resources not only because of the color of his skin.

Trump is a Tatar

Another extravagant theory claims that Donald Trump is a descendant of the rulers of the Khazar Kaganate, namely, a Tatar through his grandmother. The story was launched in the summer of 2016, at the height of the election race in the United States. It is unknown who announced this first. Messages on Twitter that Tatar blood flows in the republican’s veins date back to May. True, it was said there that the Tatar is Trump’s grandfather.

Open sources report that the billionaire's grandparents are German immigrants who moved to the United States at the end of the 19th century. This is from my father's side. Not much is written about the ancestors of the Scottish mother, which only excites the imagination of lovers of exotic theories.

After the Republican’s victory in the elections, this hypothesis found its ideologist - State Duma deputy Fatih Sibagatullin, author of the book “Tatars and Jews,” who is confident that the world is ruled by Tatars. On November 19, in a practically programmatic column for the publication Business Online, he stated: “We can confidently say that Tatar blood flows in Trump’s veins. At least there are traces of her. The fact is that he is a descendant of a people who came from a mixture of Khazars and Turks.”

The ancestors of the elected US president lived in the Rhine basin, where Khazar Jews moved after the conquest of the Kaganate by the army of Svyatoslav, points out Sibagatullin.

“Trump’s roots are precisely from the Rhine, he is Ashkenazi. Just look at his face, especially in his younger years, he doesn’t look like those in Jerusalem. His ancestors are not Germans, but Khazars who speak a Yiddish-like language. Today, it is these Khazars, with roots in the lower reaches of the Volga, who rule the world,” the researcher sums up.

Or a descendant of Rurik

There is another version. Trump is a descendant of the Novgorod prince and ancestor of the great royal dynasty of Rurik of Varangian. After the elections in the United States, Alexander Prokhanov’s newspaper “Zavtra” reported this.

There is nothing sensational about the American’s relationship with the Rurikovichs, the researcher notes, since “many US presidents are related to European royal and aristocratic families, and they, in turn, are related to the Rurikovichs through marriages along the female line.” By the way, following Nilogov’s theory, Obama should also be recognized as a descendant of Rurik.

However, the only thing that unites Trump with the semi-legendary Rurik is intolerance to criticism, as published in “Tomorrow” by employees of the British newspaper The Times.

And the last one for today is about Donald Fredovich Trump.

Due to the fact that the Ukrainians' disappointment from the defeat of the possessed lesbian Clintonsha gave way to intense licking from Trump, including in such an exotic way:

I would like to briefly talk about the origins of Trump.

So, what does English-language Wikipedia tell us with links to sources?

Trump is of German ancestry on his father's side and Scottish ancestry on his mother's side; all four of his grandparents were born in Europe. His father Fred Trump (1905-1999) was born in Queens to parents from Kallstadt, Germany. His mother, Mary Trump (née MacLeod, 1912-2000), was born in Tong, Lewis, Scotland.

Drumpf, the family's ancestral name, evolved to Trump during the Thirty Years" War in the 17th century. Trump has said that he is proud of his German heritage; he served as grand marshal of the 1999 German-American Steuben Parade in New York City.

Trump is of German descent on his father's side and Scottish descent on his mother's side. All four of his grandfathers were born in Europe. His father Fred Trump (1905-1999) was born in Queens (a suburb of New York) from parents originally from the city of Kallstadt (now part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate).
Mother, Mary Trump nee MacLeod (McLeod) (1912-2000) was born in the village of Tongue on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.

The Trump family name originally had the form Drumpf; Donald Fredovich's ancestors are known from written sources dating back to the Thirty Years' War and earlier. The first Drumpf, named Hans, a lawyer by profession, settled in Kallstadt in 1608.

According to Trump, he is very proud of his German roots. Donald Fredovich was even the commander-in-chief of the annual Von Steuben Day parade in 1999 (a holiday in honor of the German General Friedrich von Steuben, an associate of George Washington).

Trump’s ancestors were not found to have any dirty Polish slaves (cattle, two-legged cattle), now called Ukrainians.

Childhood

In 1936 the couple got married; the couple bought a cottage in a respectable area of ​​Queens, the father of the family continued to engage in the construction business, and Mary devoted herself entirely to motherhood. Donald Trump was the fourth child in the family, but, having inherited his father’s tough and assertive character, he was not going to get used to the role of his younger brother. Neither his parents nor his school teachers could cope with the obnoxious Donald, so at the age of 13 the boy was faced with a fact: he was going to the New York Military Academy.

As a cadet, Trump proved himself to be a disciplined student who boasted good grades, social skills, and athletic success. The parents could not be happier with their son, who had suddenly come to his senses, and even began to set him up as an example to the other children.

First steps on the path to success

The first project entrusted to Donald was the grandiose residential complex Swifton Village in Ohio, designed for 1,200 apartments for the “middle class”. Under the leadership of the younger Trump, the company managed to complete the project within a year, spending $6 million on construction and earning $12 million from the sale of apartments.

Double income is a more than excellent start to a career, but Trump was not going to stop there. The construction of apartments in Ohio was sponsored by the state, but Donald understood that for financial support for more serious projects it was worth turning not to government organizations, but to the powers that be: bankers, top managers, oil tycoons. In 1971, Donald rented an apartment in the heart of New York - on the island of Manhattan. Here his circle of acquaintances quickly expanded with influential people.

The rise of an empire

Donald's firm got down to business, and six years later, Manhattan residents were able to see the 25-story monolith of glass and steel that had replaced the dull yellow building, surrounded by new, functional and livable neighborhoods. Much later, in October 1996, half of the rights to the hotel were bought by one of the largest hotel chains, Hyatt, increasing Trump's fortune by $142 million.

In 1979, Donald had his eye on a piece of land on 5th Avenue, across from the Tiffany & Co jewelry store. When the businessman was asked what made him buy this particular place, he replied: “The wealthiest people in New York always hang out at Tiffany’s stores.” By 1983, the 58-story Trump Tower skyscraper rose on this site, surpassing all city buildings in height.

The house instantly gained fame as an elite complex: the windows of the apartments overlooked Central Park, a series of boutiques and restaurants were located below, the floor was tiled with pink marble, and a three-meter fountain was in the hall. All the apartments were bought up within a few months, and Trump became $200 million richer.

When gambling was legalized in New Jersey in 1977, Trump realized that he had a tasty morsel that should not be missed. In 1980, he purchased a plot of land in Atlantic City, entrusting his brother Robert with obtaining a gambling license. In 1982, the grandiose Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino hotel and entertainment complex worth $250 million was opened. In 1986, Donald bought the city's Hilton hotel and built the $320 million Trump's Castle in its place. At the same time, he began construction of the largest hotel-casino in the world, the Taj Mahal, which opened its doors to visitors in 1990.

On the verge of bankruptcy

New projects were financed with borrowed funds, which was quite risky. Trump's creditors included large banks and investment companies: Citicorp, Merrill Lynch, Chase Manhattan. The businessman’s debts were growing rapidly, and the threat of bankruptcy was aggravated by the brewing crisis in the real estate sector. In the early 90s, debts to creditors reached $9.8 billion, of which Trump had to pay $900 million out of his own pocket. On the verge of bankruptcy, the businessman was forced to mortgage the Trump Tower skyscraper. The press added fuel to the fire, criticizing Donald's every move.

Thanks to his innate perseverance, Donald managed to get out of the debt hole. Gambling revenues covered most of the debt; by 1997, the tycoon had completely repaid his debts and began working on new projects. In 2001, Trump's company, together with the Korean enterprise Daewoo, completed the construction of the 72-story Trump World Tower. The 262-meter skyscraper has risen exactly opposite the UN headquarters in Manhattan.

The 2008 financial crisis was a new shock to Trump's construction empire. Due to falling sales, he was unable to repay the 40 million loan on time. Although the billionaire could easily pay off the debt with his own funds, he filed for bankruptcy, claiming that the crisis was force majeure. On February 17, 2009, Trump announced his decision to leave the Board of Directors of his own company.

Television appearances

In 2006, Trump, together with NBC, bought out the Miss Universe Organization, which organized the Miss Universe and Miss America beauty pageants.

The construction magnate also appeared with cameos in several films and TV series, for example, in the comedy Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, he explained to young Macaulay Culkin how to get into the hall.

Donald Trump cameo in Home Alone 2

In 2007, Trump got his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which the businessman received for creating the reality show “The Apprentice.”

In October of the same year, Donald was invited to Larry King's studio, where he sharply spoke about the foreign policy of George W. Bush and the appearance of Angelina Jolie. Many people remember other words spoken on the evening broadcast: then Trump said that in the next elections he would certainly support Rudolph Giuliani and Hillary Clinton if they nominated themselves for the presidency. He was reminded of this speech in 2013, when Trump was again visiting the host.

Donald Trump visiting Larry King

Donald Trump's political career. Most Influential Republican

On June 16, 2015, Trump made it clear to US residents that he had changed his mind, announcing his readiness to fight for the presidency. Trump's presidential campaign was carefully planned: first he visited the state of New Hampshire, traditionally considered a Republican stronghold, then toured Nevada and California, states that previously received a solid financial injection from the Donald. Trump also repeatedly held rallies in his support to entertain the electorate.

Trump's popularity was influenced by his character: the newly minted politician was accustomed to speaking openly, without veiling his speech with euphemisms. Because of this feature, he gained fame as an eccentric truth teller.

The main messages of the Trump campaign concerned the following areas of American society: immigration, health care, the economy and domestic policy. The Republican treated the people of Mexico and the Middle East extremely coldly. If he wins the election, Trump threatened to build an analogue of the Great Wall of China on the border with Mexico. Trump has also advocated many times for the immediate elimination of ISIS armed forces.

Donald Trump Blames Democrats for Creating ISIS

Donald demanded the repeal of Barack Obama's health care program, saying it was too expensive for the government to provide and that he would have no problem finding better methods that would be cheaper for taxpayers.

In the economic sector, even Democrats listened to the billionaire; he argued for the need to return production to the United States by increasing duties on goods of American companies manufactured abroad, and also argued for the need for a trade war with China.

Donald Trump's scandalous video featuring Vladimir Putin

He outlined his point of view in more detail in the book “Mutilated America,” published in 2015.

According to Forbes magazine, in 2016, Donald Trump's fortune crossed the $4 billion mark. It continued to grow, including through real estate licensing - developers themselves paid Trump to build and sell new projects on his behalf.

In March 2016, Donald Trump was named the most likely Republican presidential candidate, predicting that he would face Hillary Clinton in the final round of elections.

In Russia, Trump's candidacy for the presidency was greeted warmly, as the billionaire more than once publicly promised to improve relations with the Kremlin.

The results of the election for the 45th US President were unpredictable. A month before the final day, both candidates received a good portion of “black PR”. Clinton was involved in a scandal involving the FBI, Trump was accused of sexual harassment. Clinton was confidently predicted to win, especially after the third and final debate. However, the results surprised everyone - Trump effortlessly beat his competitor, gaining 306 electoral votes out of the 270 required for victory, thereby securing a seat in the Oval Office of the White House.

On December 19, 2016, the Electoral College certified the election results, giving 304 votes to Trump. Only two electors abandoned their original decision.

Donald Trump's Inauguration: Full Video

The presidential inauguration took place on January 20, 2017. During his inauguration speech, Trump called for “overcoming the split between the ruling elite, the corrupt establishment and American society,” radically changing the labor market by expelling all illegal migrants from the country, leaving political blocs that are unfavorable to the United States, reaching an understanding with Russia, transferring all resources for the benefit of the country and destroy Islamist terrorists. Republican Michael Pence becomes Trump's right-hand man

Trump began dating his second wife, actress Marla Maples, back in 1989, and immediately after his divorce from Ivana, he proposed to her. She gave the billionaire a daughter, Tiffany. But the marriage did not last long - they divorced in 1999. Tiffany grew up with her mother in California, but her father also took part in her upbringing.

At the beginning of 2005, Donald married another fashion model from Eastern Europe - 34-year-old Melanie Knauss. Trump's third wife was originally from Slovenia, shone on the pages of glossy magazines, and did not hesitate to appear very candidly. The wedding of Trump and Melanie was included in the list of the most expensive wedding ceremonies with a budget of $45 million. In 2006, their common son, Barron William Trump, was born.

Donald Trump now

But within America itself, Trump’s repeatedly expressed intention to build a wall between the United States and Mexico to limit the influx of illegal immigrants into the country has caused particularly heated debate.

It was the wall on the border with its southern neighbor that caused the suspension of the US Government at the end of 2018. The Mexican Wall (or "Trump's Wall"), one of the main points of the president's election program, was valued at almost six billion dollars.