Scott - TRUMP RUNNING IN 2024

Donald Trump was America's most famous billionaire long before he ran for president. The 74-year-old is out of office after just one term, but he continues to be a force within the Republican Party, even though he was once thought to be a long shot for the presidency.

His controversial immigration platform and outrageous campaign style had sparked skepticism about his 2016 candidacy, as had his past as a celebrity. However, the businessman came out to the limelight when he beat much more experienced politicians in the Republican primary race, defying everyones doubts.

Before joining his fathers company, Mr. Trump said that he got into real estate with a "small" $1 million loan from his father. In 1971, he took control of the company, which he renamed the Trump Organization, and assisted in managing his father's extensive portfolio of residential housing projects in the boroughs of New York City. In 1999, his father passed away.

Mr. Trump transformed the rundown Commodore Hotel into the Grand Hyatt and constructed the most well-known Trump property, the 68-story Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, shifting his family's business from residential units in Brooklyn and Queens to luxurious Manhattan projects like Trump Place, Trump World Tower, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and other properties.

Additionally, Mr. Trump created hotels and casinos, a division of the company that has resulted in four filings for bankruptcy (for the businesses, not for personal bankruptcy).

Additionally, he established an entertainment industry empire. He owned the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015. He launched The Apprentice, a reality television show on NBC, in 2003, where contestants competed for a chance to manage Mr. Trump's organization. In a financial disclosure form, he stated that the network had paid him $213 million over the course of the show's 14 seasons.

He owns a product line that sells everything from neckties to water bottles and has written several books. According to Forbes estimation, he is worth $2.5 billion (1.9 billion).

The New York Times reported in September that, despite his alleged wealth, Mr. Trump only paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and his first year in office. However, the report was branded "fake news" by the former president.

MARITAL AND FAMILY HISTORY

Mr. Trump is a father and husband who have been married three times. His first wife, a Czech athlete, and model named Ivana Zelnickova is his most famous wife.

They had three children - Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric as at the time they filed for divorce in 1990. The subsequent legal battle resulted in numerous tabloid stories. Ivana later played down the allegations that he had been abusive to her in those accounts.

In 1993, he got married to Marla Maples who was an actress. Before getting divorced in 1999, they had a daughter named Tiffany.

Again, he got married to Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model, in 2005. Together, the couple has a son named Barron William Trump.

Despite the fact that he is still the company's chief executive, his children from his previous marriage now help run the business. His oldest daughter, Ivanka, went with her father to the White House, where she and her husband, Jared Kushner, served as senior advisers.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL INTEREST

Mr. Trump announced interest in running for president in 1987 and, surprisingly, entered the 2000 race as a Reform Party candidate.

In 2008, he rose to fame in the "birther" movement, which questioned whether Barack Obama was born in the United States. However, those claims were debunked as it was proven that Obama was born in Hawaii. In the end, Mr. Trump alleged that the claims were not true, but, there was no apology tendered.

Mr. Trump did not officially declare his candidacy for the White House until June 2015. In his speech, he said "We need somebody that will take this country and make it great again. We can do that" promising that he was the ideal candidate since he didn't need to raise money to fund his campaigns and didn't have to answer to any special interests.

Mr. Trump ran a controversial campaign under the slogan "Make America Great Again" in which he promised to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, strengthen the American economy, and temporarily prohibit Muslim immigration until the country's representatives could figure out what is going on.

Mr. Trump became the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee after the Indiana primary, despite massive protests at his campaign events and the best efforts of his Republican rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

HOW DID TRUMP WIN THE ELECTION?

The emergence of a 2005 recording of Trump making lewd remarks about women and claims that he was unfit for office, including from members of his party, rocked Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

However, he made it clear to his army of supporters on a consistent basis that he would defy opinion polls, which primarily showed him trailing Hillary Clinton, and that his presidency would "drain the swamp" in Washington and strike a blow to the political establishment.

He declared that he would carry out "Brexit times ten," drawing inspiration from the successful campaign to get Britain out of the European Union. Despite his campaign receiving a late boost from the new controversy surrounding an FBI investigation into his opponent's emails, few believed it would occur on polling day.

When he and President Obama met for transition talks two days after the election, his supporters got a chance to see him in the Oval Office while his stunning victory was still sinking in across the United States.

Before he was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017, he had already made history as the first president of the United States who had never served in the military or held any public office before being voted into power.

1. Trump gets four hours of sleep each night.

Donald Trump has a preference for not sleeping more than four hours each night. He typically goes to sleep after finishing his work until past midnight or one in the morning and then wakes up before six in the morning.

1. The Trump Organization was heavily influenced by Ivana Trump.

Aside from structure being Donald's most memorable spouse, Ivana Trump was likewise a previous design model and money manager. As the vice president of interior design, she contributed significantly to the Trump Organization. Ivana wrote "Raising Trump" in 2017 about her childhood and the first few years of raising her children with Donald Trump.