Former real estate tycoon Donald Trump has been elected the 45th president of the United States after a neck-and-neck race with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Born on June 14, 1946, in New York, Trump started his career in his father’s real estate firm in 1968 after graduation from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and was given control of the company in 1971, when he renamed the company “The Trump Organization.”
Since then, Trump expanded the business by building casinos, golf courses, hotels and other properties and started marketing his name on a number of building projects and commercial products and services.
He was also famous as a reality television star as the host of his 14-season run “The Apprentice.”
Trump announced his presidential candidacy in June 2015, portraying himself as a Washington outsider. The announcement ended his long history of presidential flirtations that started in 1987 and were revived in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 elections.
In his announcement speech, Trump famously said that “I’m really rich,” adding that he was the right person to replace the current “loser” to run the country. His campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again.”
Though Trump claimed in July 2015 that his net worth was “in excess of” 10 billion U.S. dollars, Forbes estimated that the real estate mogul’s net worth stood at 4.5 billion dollars.
Trump drew widespread criticism when he said in his presidential announcement speech that Mexico was sending “rapists” and drug dealers to the United States.
Since then, the New York property developer had repeatedly vowed, if elected, to deport about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country.
In another outburst of emotional remarks, Trump called for a “total and complete” ban on Muslims entering the United States in the wake of the Paris terror attacks in November 2015.
However, his blunt and sometimes incendiary remarks about Latino immigrants and Muslims never seemed to have taken its toll on his polling numbers.
Trump was officially declared the Republican presidential nominee on July 19 at the Republican National Convention, though he had already secured the spot in May after pushing other party candidates out of the race with a sweeping primary victory in Indiana.
After entering the general election campaign process with Hillary Clinton, Trump continued to draw controversy as news of him evading tax and making rude comments on women made headlines.
Subsequently, views on Trump became polarized among voters, which was further fueled by him calling Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” during a televised presidential debate.
As the winner of what was believed to be one of the most negative elections in U.S. history, Trump now must fulfill his campaign promises with action in order to fight off skepticism about his ability to govern.
Trump has married three times, and has five children.
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When the governor of cbn said 2 trillions of naira last week have been disbursed since this year by bank and the executive arm of the govt.some Nigerians do not believe the governor,they said it’s fraud by govt,some said it is in the governor bum,i could not stop laughing.how can you put 2 trillion naira in the governor’s bum ?.
To me, Mr Trump is harmless,whatever he said it is not going to happen the way he said. if he built this wall in the mexico border,it will harm American economy,mexican provides cheap latino labour for America,there are white americans who are murderers and rapist. Mr Trump’s mother was an immigrant from Scotland,so his third wife,who is from eastern europe American imbalanced of trade with china will take more than 10 yrs at least,to do it fast mr trump will increases taxes,whether he like or not,he is a businessman, and his instinct,is to cut taxes,to start trade war with china,and if china react,they will sell or start selling their shares of American tresury bond,and the value of American bond yeld and premium will start to fall,WHICH WILL NOT MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN OR SOONER,and the world have been growing positively,meaning,the rest of the world have enough weapon to fight American attempt to dominate the world.
Those who elected mr trump chooses from lesser evil,they knew they have been decieved