Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, politician, television personality, and candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He is the chairman and president of The Trump Organization and the founder of the gaming and hotel enterprise Trump Entertainment Resorts (now owned by Carl Icahn). Trump, who is from Queens in New York City, is a son of real estate developer Fred Trump. While attending college, he worked for his father's firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son. Upon graduating from college in 1968 he joined the company, and in 1971 was given control, renaming the company "The Trump Organization". Since then he has built casinos, golf courses, hotels, and other properties, many of which bear his name. Trump and his businesses have received prominent media exposure, and the NBC reality show The Apprentice bolstered his fame. His three marriages have been highly publicized. Trump first campaigned for the U.S. presidency in 2000, winning two Reform Party primaries. On June 16, 2015, Trump again announced his candidacy for president, this time as a Republican. He became known for his opposition to immigration, free trade, and military interventionism. He eventually emerged as the front-runner for the Republican nomination. As of March 15, 2016, he has won 16 contests in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in Queens He is the fourth of five children to Mary Anne (née MacLeod; 1912–2000), a homemaker and philanthropist,and Fred Trump (1905–1999), who worked as a real estate developer. His mother was born at Tong on the Scottish island of Lewis and Harris. In 1930, aged 18, she visited the United States and met Fred Trump. They were married in 1936 and settled in Jamaica Estates, Queens, as Fred Trump eventually became one of the city's biggest real estate developers. Trump has one living brother, Robert (born 1948), and two living sisters: Maryanne (born 1937) and Elizabeth (born 1942). Maryanne is a United States federal judge on senior status for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Another brother, Fred Jr. (1938–1981), died of complications from alcoholism. Trump's father was born in Woodhaven, Queens, the son of Elizabeth (née Christ) and Frederick Trump, emigrants who moved to the United States from Germany in 1885. Frederick worked as a successful Klondike Gold Rush restaurateur and brothel keeper. In a 1976 New York Times biographical profile, and again in his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, Trump incorrectly stated that Frederick Trump was of Swedish origin,an assertion that Fred Trump made for many years ostensibly because "he had a lot of Jewish tenants and it wasn't a good thing to be German", according to a nephew identified as a family historian by The New York Times.Donald Trump later acknowledged his German ancestry and served as grand marshal of the 1999 German-American Steuben Parade in New York City. The family had a two-story mock Tudor Revival home on Wareham Place in Jamaica Estates, where Trump lived while attending The Kew-Forest School. At Kew-Forest, Fred Trump served as a member of the Board of Trustees. Due to behavior problems, Trump left the school at age 13 and was enrolled in the New York Military Academy (NYMA). In 1983, Fred told an interviewer that Donald "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small." Trump finished eighth grade and high school at NYMA. During his senior year, Trump participated in marching drills and wore a uniform, attaining the rank of captain.In 2015, he told a biographer that NYMA gave him "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military." Trump attended Fordham University in the Bronx for two years. He entered the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, as Wharton then offered one of the few real estate studies departments in U.S. academia.While there, he worked at his father's company, Elizabeth Trump & Son.Trump graduated from Wharton in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics. Trump was eligible for the draft lottery during the Vietnam War. "I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number", he told WNYW in 2011. Selective Service records retrieved by The Smoking Gun website from the National Archives show that, although Trump did eventually receive a high selective service lottery number in 1969, he was not drafted earlier secondary to four student deferments (2-S) while attending college, as well as a medical deferment (1-Y, later converted to 4-F) obtained in 1968 after his college graduation, prior to the lottery being initiated.

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