1946Entry · 01
Born in Queens
Donald John Trump arrives June 14 at Jamaica Hospital — the fourth of five children to Fred Trump, a Brooklyn-Queens real estate developer, and Mary Anne MacLeod, a Scottish immigrant from the Isle of Lewis.
A Visual Biography
Edition I · April MMXXVI · Compiled from public record
45th & 47th President of the United States
Donald
J. Trump
From a developer's son in Queens to the only American since Grover Cleveland to win the White House twice, non-consecutively.
Born14 . 06 . 1946Jamaica Hospital, Queens, NY
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Born
June 14, 1946
Queens, New York
Education
Wharton, '68
University of Pennsylvania
Presidencies
45th & 47th
Republican
Net Worth
$5.4B
Forbes, 2025
The Outline
One life, told in five acts.
Cadet Capt. D. J. Trump — New York Military Academy, c. 1964
1959Entry · 02
New York Military Academy
Sent to NYMA at age thirteen for discipline, he thrives — making baseball captain, cadet captain, and ladies' man of the mess hall by graduation in 1964.
1968Entry · 03
The Wharton degree
Transfers from Fordham to the Wharton School at Penn, then one of only a handful of universities offering a real estate program. Graduates with a B.S. in economics.
1971Entry · 04
Takes the keys
At twenty-five, Donald assumes control of his father's company. He renames it the Trump Organization and sets his sights on the one borough his father wouldn't touch: Manhattan.
IIAct Two
1971 — 2004
The Empire.
Bronze glass, pink marble, gold lettering. He didn't invent the Manhattan skyline — he made the brand on it.
1980
The Grand Hyatt
42nd Street, New York
His first Manhattan score — a derelict Commodore Hotel reborn behind a glass skin. The deal that put the name in the papers.
1983
Trump Tower
Fifth Avenue, New York
Fifty-eight stories of bronze glass and pink marble. Home, office, brand headquarters — and a stage.
1985
Mar-a-Lago
Palm Beach, Florida
The 126-room Marjorie Merriweather Post estate, bought for $10 million. He turns it into a private club. Decades later, a winter White House.
1990
Taj Mahal Casino
Atlantic City
Then the largest casino in the world. The first crown of Trump Atlantic — and the start of a brutal decade of leverage.
1996
Miss Universe
Worldwide
Buys the pageant from ITT. For nineteen years he runs Miss USA, Miss Universe, and Miss Teen USA — a global broadcast property.
2008
Trump SoHo
Manhattan
A 46-floor mixed-use condo-hotel. By the late 2000s the Trump name licenses skyscrapers from Toronto to Mumbai to Manila.
IIIAct Three
2004 — 2015
Television.
On January 8, 2004, NBC airs “The Apprentice.” A boardroom, a closing line, and twenty-eight million viewers a week.
Mark Burnett's reality format hands a real estate developer the biggest stage in American culture. Fourteen seasons. The line — “You're fired” — becomes shorthand for a decade. By the time it ends, Trump is no longer a New York tabloid character. He is a household name across all 50 states.
14
Seasons on NBC
28M
Avg. peak viewers
2007
Hollywood Walk star
The Boardroom — circa 2007
Plate III
IVAct Four · 2017 — 2021
Forty-five.
“The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.”
— Inaugural address, Capitol Steps, Jan 20, 2017
Selected Moments
Jan 20, 2017· MOMENT
"American carnage stops right here"
Sworn in as the 45th President on the West Front of the Capitol. The shortest inaugural address in fifty years; the first non-politician, non-general to win the presidency.
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Apr 7, 2017· POLICY
Strikes on Syria
Fifty-nine Tomahawks hit the Shayrat airbase in response to Assad's chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun — the first direct U.S. strike on the regime.
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Dec 22, 2017· WIN
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Corporate rate slashed from 35% to 21%, individual brackets cut, doubled standard deduction. The largest tax overhaul in three decades.
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Jun 12, 2018· MOMENT
Singapore
Meets Kim Jong Un at the Capella Hotel — the first sitting U.S. President to shake hands with a North Korean leader.
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Sep 15, 2020· WIN
The Abraham Accords
Israel normalizes relations with the UAE and Bahrain on the South Lawn. Sudan and Morocco follow within months — the first major Arab-Israeli breakthroughs in twenty-five years.
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Jan 20, 2021· TURN
Mar-a-Lago
Boards Marine One on the South Lawn for the last time. Lands in Palm Beach a private citizen — the first president since Andrew Johnson to skip his successor's inauguration.
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VAct Five
2024 —
The return.
No incumbent president has ever lost an election, sat out four years, and won the next one — until now.
Indictments in four jurisdictions. A bullet that grazed his ear. A primary swept by historic margins. On November 5, 2024, he carried every battleground state. On January 20, 2025, he was sworn in for the second time — the only U.S. president since Grover Cleveland to serve non-consecutive terms.
78
Years old at second inauguration
Oldest sworn in
2
Non-consecutive terms
First since 1893
312
Electoral votes, 2024
of 538
$5.4B
Estimated net worth
Forbes, 2025
“Fight, fight, fight.”
Plate V · The Campaign Trail
Day 01Nov 15, 2022
He announces — again
· MOMENTStanding in the gold ballroom at Mar-a-Lago: "I am tonight announcing my candidacy for President of the United States." The third campaign begins.
Day 02Apr 4, 2023
Indicted in Manhattan
· TURNFirst former U.S. president to face criminal charges. Three more indictments will follow that year. He campaigns through every one of them.
Day 03Jul 13, 2024
Butler, Pennsylvania
· MOMENTA bullet grazes his ear at an outdoor rally. He rises with a fist in the air — "Fight, fight, fight." The image runs on every front page in the country.
Day 04Nov 5, 2024
He wins it back
· WINCarries all seven swing states, the popular vote, and the Electoral College 312-226. The first Republican to win the popular vote in twenty years.
Day 05Jan 20, 2025
Forty-seven
· MOMENTSworn in inside the Capitol Rotunda by Chief Justice Roberts — only the second president to serve non-consecutive terms, and the first since Grover Cleveland in 1893.
In His Own Words
The lines that stayed.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
I will give you everything. I will give you everything. I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down.
We are going to make America great again.
The American Dream is dead. But if I get elected president, I will bring it back, bigger and better and stronger than ever before.
The Family
The Trumps.
Three marriages, five children, ten grandchildren — and a brand that runs through the whole tree.
Father
Fred Trump
Real estate developer, Brooklyn.
Mother
Mary Anne MacLeod
Scottish immigrant, Isle of Lewis.
First wife (1977–1992)
Ivana Trump
Czech-American businesswoman.
Second wife (1993–1999)
Marla Maples
American actress.
Wife since 2005
Melania Trump
First Lady, 2017–2021 & 2025–.
Children with Ivana
Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric
Daughter with Marla
Tiffany
Son with Melania
Barron
Born 2006.