Donald Trump, in full Donald John Trump, (born June 14, 1946, , New York, U.S.), 45th (2017–21). Trump was a real estate developer and businessman who owned, managed, or licensed his name to , , golf courses, resorts, and residential properties in the area and around the world. From the 1980s Trump also lent his name to scores of retail ventures—including branded lines of clothing, cologne, food, and —and to Trump University, which offered seminars in real estate education from 2005 to 2010. In the early 21st century his private , the , some 500 companies involved in a wide range of businesses, including hotels and resorts, residential properties, merchandise, and entertainment and television. Trump was the third in U.S. history (after in 1868 and in 1998) to be by the U.S. and the only president to be impeached twice—once (in 2019) for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in connection with the and once (in 2021) for in connection with the storming of the by a violent mob of Trump supporters as met in joint session to ceremonially count votes from the . Both of Trump's impeachments ended in his acquittal by the . Trump lost the 2020 election to former vice president by 306 electoral votes to 232; he lost the popular vote by more than seven million votes.
In March 2023 Trump was by a Manhattan on state criminal charges related to a hush-money payment made in 2016 to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had an affair with Trump in 2006 (see below Postpresidential activities). The marked the first time in U.S. history that a former president was charged with a crime. In June 2023 Trump was indicted by a grand jury in Miami on federal criminal charges related to his removal of classified documents from the upon leaving office and his retention of them at , his resort and residence in , Florida. The marked the first time in U.S. history that a former president was charged with a federal crime. In August 2023 Trump was indicted by a grand jury in Washington, D.C., on federal criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The indictment charged him with obstruction of an official proceeding and three counts of conspiracy—conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, to defraud the , and to impede the free exercise of the and to have one's vote counted. Later that month, Trump and 18 of his associates were indicted by a grand jury in Fulton county, Georgia, on criminal charges related to Trump's efforts to reverse Biden's electoral victory in the state.
Early life and business career
Trump was the fourth of five children of Frederick (Fred) Christ Trump, a successful real estate developer, and Mary MacLeod. Donald's eldest sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, eventually served as a U.S. judge (1983–99) and later as a judge on the for the Third until her retirement in 2011. His elder brother, Frederick, Jr. (Freddy), worked briefly for his father's business before becoming an airline pilot in the 1960s. Freddy's led to his early death in 1981, at the age of 43.
Beginning in the late 1920s, Fred Trump built hundreds of single-family houses and row houses in the and boroughs of New York City, and from the late 1940s he built thousands of apartment units, mostly in Brooklyn, using federal loan guarantees designed to stimulate the construction of . During he also built federally backed housing for naval personnel and shipyard workers in and . In 1954 Fred was investigated by the Senate Banking Committee for allegedly abusing the loan-guarantee program by deliberately overestimating the costs of his construction projects to secure larger loans from , enabling him to keep the difference between the loan amounts and his actual construction costs. In before the Senate committee in 1954, Fred admitted that he had built the Beach Haven apartment complex in Brooklyn for $3.7 million less than the amount of his government-insured loan. Although he was not charged with any crime, he was thereafter unable to obtain federal loan guarantees. A decade later a New York state investigation found that Fred had used his profit on a state-insured construction loan to build a that was entirely his own property. He eventually returned $1.2 million to the state but was thereafter unable to obtain state loan guarantees for residential projects in the area of Brooklyn.
