What you should know about Donald Trump, our 45th President of the USA ... Thx Judi C!

What you should know about the 45th President of the USA

(and his German grandparents.)

 

Specifications:

• Donald John Trump, was born June 14, 1946.  
• He will be 70 years old on election day.   
• From the Internet, he is 6'2" or 6'3' and weighs between 195 and 200 lbs.  
• He has a full head of blond/brown hair (which is long and elaborately combed) and blue eyes. 
• The Internet tells us he wears a size 12 shoe.  

Donald Trump was born the fourth of five children who were born over eleven years. 

• The oldest, Mary Ann, was born in 1937 and is currently a Federal Judge.   
• His older brother, Fred Jr, died in early adulthood as a result of complications from alcoholism. 
• He has another older sister, Elizabeth and a younger brother, Robert.   
• Donald Trump has been married three times.  
• Trump's first wife, Ivana, was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia and a divorcee who has been married 4 times in her life. She is a life long avid skier and worked in design at the Trump Organization. 
• Marla Maples, Trump's second wife is an actress and model  
• Trump's third wife, Melania is an immigrant from Slovenia (born in Yugoslavia) and has been a super model.  
• Two of Trump's children, Donald Jr and Ivanka, have gone to Penn. Son Eric, went to Georgetown. 
• Donald Trump tells us that he is Presbyterian.   
• Donald Trump  does not appear to have had any interest in occults, mysticism or exotic mythologies. 
• Donald Trump's oldest daughter, Ivanka, and her three children are Jewish.  
• Trump's oldest daughter, Ivanka, is married to Jared Kushner who is, among other things, a newspaper publisher. The Kushner family is very successful in New York City area real estate. 
• Donald's grandmother, mother, first wife, and third wife are all immigrants.  

 

• Donald Trump was born and raised in Queens NY  
• Though his family was very wealthy, Trump's boyhood home in the Jamaica Estates section of Queens was not a grand mansion. The Trump home was a larger version of the homes Fred Trump was building for his tenants. 
• There are no indications that the Trump family lived among the wealthy elites on vacations or country clubs. 
• Queens is the largest of New York's five boroughs and the most ethnically diverse. 
• Trump attended a local private day school, the Kew Forrest School, in Queens until about 8th grade. 
• His secondary schooling was at New York Military Academy which is about 60 miles north of NYC in Cornwall on the Hudson. He was the class of 1964. 
• Trump was never a "Preppie".  
• Trump never embraced any aspect of the "Hippie" movement of the time.  
• Trump was a very good high school athlete - football, soccer, and especially baseball. He had potential to become a professional baseball player. 
• Even in high school - Trump liked women and women liked him  
• Trump was generally popular in high school.  
• Trump's boarding school room mate liked him.  
• He attended Fordham University in NYC for two years and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. 
• At that time, the Wharton School offered a rare program for Real Estate Business.  
• Though he was of age, Donald Trump did not serve in Vietnam.  
• He was not drafted due to bone spurs in his heels (4F) and also student deferments. 
• Ultimately, in the draft lottery, he drew a high number.  

 

• By all we know, Donald Trump does not smoke, drink or use recreational drugs. He'll be the first President in more than 25 years who hasn't smoked weed. 
• BTW: Trump's children don't smoke or drink  
• Trump makes it well known that he enjoys sexual interaction with women.  
• I am unaware that Donald Trump is a recreational gambler.  
• His doctor publicly announced Donald to be in excellent health. 

 

I think that to really know Donald Trump, you must know his family background. 

The Trump family story is a very American story.

 

Trump family history - concise version.

• Donald Trump's grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Alsace (Kallstadt, Germany) which throughout history has been alternately French and German. The Trumps are German, originally speaking the same German dialect as the Amish of Lancaster County, PA. 
• His maternal grandparents lived in Scotland.   
• Freiderich (Drumph) Trump made a small but respectable fortune in the late 19th Century in the mining boom towns of the American Northwest. 
• He returned to Germany to marry his childhood neighbor, Elizabeth Christ.  
• The newly married Trumps resettled in the Borough of Queens NY  
• Freidrich was establishing a Real Estate business in Queens when he died suddenly at age 49 (1918). 
• In 1920, at the age of 15, Fred Trump (Freiderich's son and Donald's father), started a business partnership with his widowed mother called Elizabeth Trump & Son. 
• This business was built upon the real estate holdings that his father,Frederich, had amassed (worth about $500,000.00 in today's dollars). This is the original "seed money" of the current Trump Organization. 
• Elizabeth & Fred remained close business partners her entire life (she died in 1966). 
• In 1936 Fred Trump (age 31) married Mary Ann MacLeod (age 24) of Stoneaway Scotland. 
• During the depression, Fred Trump built and successfully operated a supermarket (a new concept at the time) which was sold to King Kullen Co. and operates this day. 
• Fred Trump made a lot of money building housing for the military during WWII.   
• Fred Trump was investigated by the Justice Department for making "excessive profits" from government contracts. 
• All (or nearly all) of the building of Elizabeth Trump & Son's non government building was residential property in Queens. 
• Fred Trump died in 1999 (age 94) - beloved and worth between $250 million and $300 million. His wife died a year later. 

 

"The Donald's" career

Donald Trump is the greatest career achiever of the "baby boomer" generation.

Donald Trump has reached the zenith in his careers as book author, TV entertainer, sports entertainer, Real Estate developer, and currently politician. 

 

• Donald Trump has authored more than 18 books. At least one of them, The Art of the Deal was a top seller. 
• Donald says that the Holy Bible is his favorite book. The Art of the Deal is his 2nd favorite book. And The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale is his third favorite book. 
• He likes golf. Donald Trump has developed more than 11 golf courses which bear his name. 
• Donald Trump has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award  
• Donald Trump has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  
• Donald Trump has been inducted to the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame.  
• Donald Trump has appeared in more than a dozen movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander, and Little Rascals  
• Donald Trump has been a guest actor in more than 6 TV shows such as Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Days of Our Lives, Sex and the City, and others. 
• Trump has been the Executive Producer of 7 TV shows.  
• Trump has been the guest host of 5 TV shows such as Extra, Larry King Live, and SaturdayNight Live and more. 
• Donald Trump has been co producer of the longest running reality TV show.  
• Donald Trump performed in several WWE wrestling shows.  
• Donald performed in Wrestlemania 23 which set attendance records and revenue records up til that time.  
• In his first candidacy for public office, Donald Trump received the most popular votes for the President of the United States out of a field of experienced and successful politicians. And in most cases, he achieved this with less money than any of his opponents. 

Keeping in mind that 90% of start up businesses fail, Trump's record of enterprise is nothing short of amazing. 

Donald Trump has enjoyed success in at least 11 very different enterprises: Professional football, Ice Skating rinks, Fragrance, Ice, Steaks, Wines, Model management, Airline, blenders, Men's wear, Bicycle races, world class beauty contests, and many others. In some of these, such as model management, his firm has risen to the top of that particular industry. 

• There are 31 buildings that bear his name.  
• The largest private real estate development in New York is Trump Riverside. Drive down the Henry Hudson Blvd. - you can't miss them. 
• There are at least 12 Trump Towers  
• There are at least 6 Trump Plazas.  
• There are at least 11 Trump Golf Course developments   
• And much, much, more in real estate.  
• Trump Entertainment, casinos and resorts was recently sold to Carl Ichan.  
• Donald Trump's personal managing of the Wollman Ice Skating Rink project in the early 1980's is the quintessential case study for MBA students in Wharton, Harvard, and other business schools. His performance there was phenomenal. 
• Donald Trump's privately held businesses have employed more than 200,000 people. 
• In the casino business in Atlantic City, Trump had to do business with known mobsters - and he stayed "clean" and alive. 
• Aside from his personal investments, Donald Trump has never been a Wall Street "player".

The Political Trump:

about 1967 - 1987 - Democrat (he was a supporter of Ronald Reagan)

1987 - 1999 - Republican

1999 - 2001 - Reform Party (he supported Ross Perot)

2001 - 2009 - Democrat

2009 - 2011 - Republican

2011 - 2012 - Independent

2012 - Present - Republican

 

Donald Trump was openly supportive of Mitt Romney's candidacy.

Donald Trump does not seem to hold political party organizations in high regard.

For the most part, his political involvement has been for practical reasons.

Donald Trump does not appear to be held to political ideology. 

 

 

 Some of my take aways:

• Trump has an extraordinarily energetic central nervous system much like Teddy Roosevelt but more targeted to industry and enterprise. 
• Trump's presidency will be very energetic, transparent, and communicative.  
• Trump will be a very hard working President.  
• His interaction with his older brother (who everybody loved) tells me that he thinks that everybody is like him - or wants to be - or should be. 
• His relationship with his older brother was a hard lesson in tolerance for him.  
• Trump is the Babe Ruth of career achievements.   
• He is dumb like a fox. When you think he just said something stupid - he didn't. It's just that you were not his target audience. 
• Trump knows the people - the folk.  
• His son, Donald Jr. is right. Trump is a "Blue Collar Billionaire".  
• More than anything, his TV show, The Apprentice, was his passion. He wants all Americans to have confidence (like he does) to venture. 
• Donald Trump is attracted to and marries smart, high achieving women.  
• The highest levels of a Trump Administration is certain to have many women - and they will be bright and assertive. 
• Donald Trump's children are very important to him. And it shows. 

PS.  Yes, we know nothing like this of our current president after 8 years in office. WTH

Tis was not just an election, It was a revolution ... Thx Gary I !

This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.

 

It’s midnight in America. The day before fifty million Americans got up and stood in front of the great iron wheel that had been grinding them down. They stood there even though the media told them it was useless. They took their stand even while all the chattering classes laughed and taunted them.

 

They were fathers who couldn’t feed their families anymore. They were mothers who couldn’t afford health care. They were workers whose jobs had been sold off to foreign countries. They were sons who didn’t see a future for themselves. They were daughters afraid of being murdered by the “unaccompanied minors” flooding into their towns. They took a deep breath and they stood.

They held up their hands and the great iron wheel stopped.

The Great Blue Wall crumbled. The impossible states fell one by one. Ohio. Wisconsin. Pennsylvania. Iowa. The white working class that had been overlooked and trampled on for so long got to its feet. It rose up against its oppressors and the rest of the nation, from coast to coast, rose up with it.

 

They fought back against their jobs being shipped overseas while their towns filled with migrants that got everything while they got nothing. They fought back against a system in which they could go to jail for a trifle while the elites could violate the law and still stroll through a presidential election. They fought back against being told that they had to watch what they say. They fought back against being held in contempt because they wanted to work for a living and take care of their families.

They fought and they won.

 

This wasn’t a vote. It was an uprising. Like the ordinary men chipping away at the Berlin Wall, they tore down an unnatural thing that had towered over them. And as they watched it fall, they marveled at how weak and fragile it had always been. And how much stronger they were than they had ever known.

 

Who were these people? They were leftovers and flyover country. They didn’t have bachelor degrees and had never set foot in a Starbucks. They were the white working class. They didn’t talk right or think right. They had the wrong ideas, the wrong clothes and the ridiculous idea that they still mattered.

They were wrong about everything. Illegal immigration? Everyone knew it was here to stay. Black Lives Matter? The new civil rights movement. Manufacturing? As dead as the dodo. Banning Muslims? What kind of bigot even thinks that way? Love wins. Marriage loses. The future belongs to the urban metrosexual and his dot com, not the guy who used to have a good job before it went to China or Mexico.

They couldn’t change anything. A thousand politicians and pundits had talked of getting them to adapt to the inevitable future. Instead they got in their pickup trucks and drove out to vote.

And they changed everything.

Barack Hussein Obama boasted that he had changed America. A billion regulations, a million immigrants, a hundred thousand lies and it was no longer your America. It was his.

He was JFK and FDR rolled into one. He told us that his version of history was right and inevitable.

And they voted and left him in the dust. They walked past him and they didn’t listen. He had come to campaign to where they still cling to their guns and their bibles. He came to plead for his legacy.

 And America said, “No.”

 

Fifty millions Americans repudiated him. They repudiated the Obamas and the Clintons. They ignored the celebrities. They paid no attention to the media. They voted because they believed in the impossible. And their dedication made the impossible happen.

Americans were told that walls couldn’t be built and factories couldn’t be opened. That treaties couldn’t be unsigned and wars couldn’t be won. It was impossible to ban Muslim terrorists from coming to America or to deport the illegal aliens turning towns and cities into gangland territories.

It was all impossible. And fifty million Americans did the impossible. They turned the world upside down.

It’s midnight in America. CNN is weeping. MSNBC is wailing. ABC calls it a tantrum. NBC damns it. It wasn’t supposed to happen. The same machine that crushed the American people for two straight terms, the mass of government, corporations and non-profits that ran the country, was set to win.

Instead the people stood in front of the machine. They blocked it with their bodies. They went to vote even though the polls told them it was useless. They mailed in their absentee ballots even while Hillary Clinton was planning her fireworks victory celebration. They looked at the empty factories and barren farms. They drove through the early cold. They waited in line. They came home to their children to tell them that they had done their best for their future. They bet on America. And they won.

They won improbably. And they won amazingly.

They were tired of ObamaCare. They were tired of unemployment. They were tired of being lied to. They were tired of watching their sons come back in coffins to protect some Muslim country. They were tired of being called racists and homophobes. They were tired of seeing their America disappear.

 

And they stood up and fought back. This was their last hope. Their last chance to be heard.

Watch this video. See ten ways John Oliver destroyed Donald Trump. Here’s three ways Samantha Bee broke the internet by taunting Trump supporters. These three minutes of Stephen Colbert talking about how stupid Trump is owns the internet. Watch Madonna curse out Trump supporters. Watch Katy Perry. Watch Miley Cyrus. Watch Robert Downey Jr. Watch Beyonce campaign with Hillary. Watch. Click.

 

Watch fifty million Americans take back their country.

 

The media had the election wrong all along. This wasn’t about personalities. It was about the impersonal. It was about fifty million people whose names no one except a server will ever know fighting back. It was about the homeless woman guarding Trump’s star. It was about the lost Democrats searching for someone to represent them in Ohio and Pennsylvania. It was about the union men who nodded along when the organizers told them how to vote, but who refused to sell out their futures.

No one will ever interview all those men and women. We will never see all their faces. But they are us and we are them. They came to the aid of a nation in peril. They did what real Americans have always done. They did the impossible.

America is a nation of impossibilities. We exist because our forefathers did not take no for an answer. Not from kings or tyrants. Not from the elites who told them that it couldn’t be done.

The day when we stop being able to pull off the impossible is the day that America will cease to exist.

Today is not that day. Today fifty million Americans did the impossible.

Midnight has passed. A new day has come. And everything is about to change.