173 Facts About Donald Trump

Donald John Trump was born on June 14,1946 and is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States.

Donald Trump launched side ventures, many licensing the Trump name, and filed for six business bankruptcies in the 1990s and 2000s.

Donald Trump rolled back environmental and business regulations, signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and appointed three Supreme Court justices.

In foreign policy, Donald Trump withdrew the US from agreements on climate, trade, and Iran's nuclear program, and initiated a trade war with China.

Donald Trump was impeached in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and in 2021 for incitement of insurrection; the Senate acquitted him both times.

Donald Trump began a trade war with China and imposed tariffs on nearly all countries, including Mexico and Canada.

Donald Trump grew up with his older siblings, Maryanne, Fred Jr.

Donald Trump was a millionaire in inflation-adjusted dollars by age eight.

Donald Trump was a difficult child and showed an early interest in his father's business.

Donald Trump's father enrolled him in New York Military Academy, a private boarding school, to complete secondary school.

Donald Trump considered a show business career but instead in 1964 enrolled at Fordham University.

Donald Trump was exempted from the draft during the Vietnam War due to a claim of bone spurs in his heels.

Cohn introduced political consultant Roger Stone to Donald Trump, who enlisted Stone's services to deal with the federal government.

Donald Trump attracted public attention in 1978 with the launch of his family's first Manhattan venture: the renovation of the derelict Commodore Hotel, adjacent to Grand Central Terminal.

In 1988, Donald Trump acquired the Plaza Hotel with a loan from a consortium of 16 banks.

In 1984, Donald Trump opened Harrah's at Donald Trump Plaza, a hotel and casino, with financing and management help from the Holiday Corporation.

Donald Trump bought a third Atlantic City venue in 1988, the Donald Trump Taj Mahal.

Donald Trump filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1991.

In 1985, Donald Trump acquired the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

Donald Trump continued to use a wing of the house as a private residence.

Donald Trump declared the club his primary residence in 2019.

Donald Trump began building and buying golf courses in 1999, owning 17 golf courses by 2016.

In 1970, Donald Trump invested $70,000 to receive billing as coproducer of a Broadway comedy.

Donald Trump renamed the airline Trump Shuttle and operated it until 1992.

Donald Trump defaulted on his loans in 1991, and ownership passed to the banks.

In 2005, Donald Trump cofounded Donald Trump University, a company that sold real estate seminars for up to $35,000.

Internal documents revealed that employees were instructed to use a hard-sell approach, and former employees testified that Donald Trump University had defrauded or lied to its students.

The Donald J Trump Foundation was a private foundation established in 1988.

Donald Trump's team announced in December 2016 that the foundation would be dissolved.

Donald Trump has said he began his career with "a small loan of a million dollars" from his father and that he had to pay it back with interest.

Donald Trump has published 19 books under his name, most written or cowritten by ghostwriters.

Donald Trump's first book, The Art of the Deal, was a New York Times Best Seller, and was credited by The New Yorker with making Trump famous as an "emblem of the successful tycoon".

Donald Trump had cameos in many films and television shows from 1985 to 2001.

Donald Trump sporadically appeared for the professional wrestling company WWE from the late 1980s including Wrestlemania 23 in 2007.

Donald Trump registered as a Republican in 1987; a member of the Independence Party, the New York state affiliate of the Reform Party, in 1999; a Democrat in 2001; a Republican in 2009; unaffiliated in 2011; and a Republican in 2012.

In 1987, Donald Trump placed full-page advertisements in major newspapers expressing his views on foreign policy and how to eliminate the federal budget deficit.

Donald Trump was a candidate in the 2000 Reform Party presidential primaries for three months before he withdrew in February 2000.

In 2011, Donald Trump considered challenging President Barack Obama in the 2012 election.

Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the 2016 election in June 2015.

Donald Trump became the Republican front-runner in March 2016 and was declared the presumptive Republican nominee in May His campaign statements were often opaque and suggestive, and a record number were false.

Donald Trump gained support based on his "outsider" status and lack of political experience, and was highly critical of media coverage, frequently making claims of media bias.

Donald Trump twice refused to say whether he would accept the result of the election.

Donald Trump described NATO as "obsolete" and espoused views that were described as noninterventionist and protectionist.

Donald Trump advocated increasing military spending and extreme vetting or banning of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries.

Donald Trump's proposed immigration policies were a topic of bitter debate during the 2016 campaign.

Donald Trump pledged to deport millions of illegal immigrants residing in the US, and criticized birthright citizenship for incentivizing "anchor babies".

Donald Trump did not release his tax returns, contrary to the practice of every major candidate since 1976 and his promises in 2014 and 2015 to do so if he ran for office.

Donald Trump said his tax returns were being audited, and that his lawyers had advised him against releasing them.

Donald Trump was the only president who neither served in the military nor held any government office prior to becoming president.

Donald Trump's election marked the return of a Republican undivided government.

Donald Trump continued to profit from his businesses and knew how his administration's policies affected them.

Donald Trump was sued for violating the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clauses of the US Constitution, the first time that the clauses had been substantively litigated.

Donald Trump took office at the height of the longest economic expansion in American history, which began in 2009 and continued until February 2020, when the COVID-19 recession began.

Donald Trump is the only modern US president to leave office with a smaller workforce than when he took office, by three million people.

Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement, making the US the only nation to not ratify it.

Donald Trump aimed to boost the production and exports of fossil fuels.

Donald Trump rolled back more than 100 federal environmental regulations, including those that curbed greenhouse gas emissions, air and water pollution, and the use of toxic substances.

Donald Trump weakened protections for animals and environmental standards for federal infrastructure projects, and expanded permitted areas for drilling and resource extraction, such as allowing drilling in the Arctic Refuge.

Donald Trump dismantled federal regulations on health, labor, the environment, and other areas, including a bill that made it easier for severely mentally ill persons to buy guns.

Donald Trump expressed a desire to "let Obamacare fail"; his administration halved the enrollment period and drastically reduced funding for enrollment promotion.

In June 2018, the Donald Trump administration joined 18 Republican-led states in arguing before the Supreme Court that the elimination of the financial penalties associated with the individual mandate had rendered the Act unconstitutional.

Donald Trump barred organizations that provide abortions or abortion referrals from receiving federal funds.

Donald Trump said he supported "traditional marriage", but considered the nationwide legality of same-sex marriage "settled".

Donald Trump's administration rolled back key components of the Obama administration's workplace protections against discrimination of LGBTQ people.

Donald Trump has said he is opposed to gun control, although his views have shifted over time.

Donald Trump's administration took an anti-marijuana position, revoking Obama-era policies that provided protections for states that legalized marijuana.

Donald Trump is a long-time advocate of capital punishment, and his administration oversaw the federal government execute 13 prisoners, more than in the previous 56 years combined, ending a 17-year moratorium.

Donald Trump continued to make similar remarks during his 2020 campaign.

Donald Trump then posed with a Bible for a photo-op at the nearby St John's Episcopal Church, with religious leaders condemning both the treatment of protesters and the photo opportunity itself.

Several Donald Trump allies were not eligible for pardons under Justice Department rules, and in other cases the department had opposed clemency.

Donald Trump reduced the number of refugees admitted to record lows, from an annual limit of 110,000 before he took office to 15,000 in 2021.

Donald Trump increased restrictions on granting permanent residency to immigrants needing public benefits.

In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order that temporarily denied entry to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries.

Donald Trump described himself as a "nationalist" and his foreign policy as "America First".

Donald Trump criticized NATO allies and privately suggested that the US should withdraw from NATO.

Donald Trump supported many of the policies of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In 2020, Donald Trump hosted the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to normalize their foreign relations.

Donald Trump began a trade war with China in 2018 after imposing tariffs and other trade barriers he said would force China to end longstanding unfair trade practice and intellectual property infringement.

Donald Trump weakened the toughest US sanctions imposed after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.

Donald Trump praised and, according to some critics, rarely criticized Russian president Vladimir Putin, though he opposed some actions of Russia's government.

Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, citing alleged Russian noncompliance, and supported Russia's possible return to the G7.

Close personal aides to Donald Trump quit or were forced out.

Donald Trump publicly disparaged several of his former top officials.

Donald Trump had four White House chiefs of staff, marginalizing or pushing out several.

Donald Trump was slow to appoint second-tier officials in the executive branch, saying many of the positions are unnecessary.

Donald Trump appointed 226 federal judges, including 54 to the courts of appeals and three to the Supreme Court: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

Donald Trump later took credit when Roe was overturned by Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization in 2022; all three of his Supreme Court nominees voted with the majority.

Donald Trump disparaged courts and judges he disagreed with, often in personal terms, and questioned the judiciary's constitutional authority.

Donald Trump initially ignored public health warnings and calls for action from health officials within his administration.

Donald Trump repeatedly pressured federal health agencies to take actions he favored, such as approving unproven treatments.

Donald Trump told Russian officials he was unconcerned about Russia's election interference.

Donald Trump claimed the report exonerated him despite Mueller writing that it did not.

The report detailed potential obstruction of justice by Donald Trump but "did not draw ultimate conclusions" and left the decision to charge the laws to Congress.

Donald Trump sued the banks, Mazars, and committee chair Elijah Cummings to prevent the disclosures.

Donald Trump was impeached twice by the House of Representatives during his first presidential term, though acquitted by the Senate on both occasions.

The first impeachment arose from a whistleblower complaint that in 2019 Donald Trump had pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden, in an attempt to gain an advantage in the 2020 presidential election.

Donald Trump filed to run for reelection only a few hours after becoming president in 2017.

Donald Trump held his first reelection rally less than a month after taking office and officially became the Republican nominee in August 2020.

Donald Trump's campaign focused on crime, claiming that cities would descend into lawlessness if Democratic nominee Joe Biden won.

Donald Trump repeatedly misrepresented Biden's positions and appealed to racism.

Donald Trump blocked funding for the US Postal Service, saying he wanted to prevent any increase in voting by mail.

Donald Trump repeatedly refused to say whether he would accept the results if he lost and commit to a peaceful transition of power.

Days later, when Biden was projected the winner, Donald Trump baselessly alleged election fraud.

Donald Trump's allegations were refuted by state election officials, and the Supreme Court declined to hear a case asking it to overturn the results in four states won by Biden.

Donald Trump repeatedly sought help to overturn the results, personally pressuring Republican local and state office-holders, Republican legislators, the Justice Department, and Vice President Pence, urging actions such as replacing presidential electors, or that Georgia officials "find" votes and announce a "recalculated" result.

Donald Trump initially blocked government officials from cooperating in Biden's presidential transition.

In December 2020, reports emerged that the US military was on "red alert", and ranking officers had discussed what to do if Donald Trump declared martial law.

Milley insisted that he be consulted about any military orders from Donald Trump, including the use of nuclear weapons.

Donald Trump's continuing false claims concerning the 2020 election were commonly referred to as the "big lie" by his critics, although in May 2021, with his supporters he began using the term to refer to the election itself.

Unlike other former presidents, Donald Trump continued to dominate his party; a 2022 profile in The New York Times described him as a modern party boss.

Donald Trump continued fundraising, raising a war chest containing more than twice that of the Republican Party, and profited from fundraisers many Republican candidates held at Mar-a-Lago.

In 2019, journalist E Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her in the 1990s and sued him for defamation over his denial.

In January 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of documents Donald Trump had taken to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House, some of which were classified.

In May 2024, Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

In November 2022, Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election and created a fundraising account.

Donald Trump said that he would weaponize the FBI and the Justice Department against his political opponents and use the military to target Democratic politicians and those that do not support his candidacy.

Donald Trump used harsher, more dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric than during his presidency.

Donald Trump mentioned "rigged election" and "election interference" earlier and more frequently than in the 2016 and 2020 campaigns and refused to commit to accepting the 2024 election results.

Donald Trump won the election in November 2024 with 312 electoral votes to incumbent vice president Kamala Harris's 226, making him the second president in US history to be elected to a nonconsecutive second term.

Donald Trump became the oldest individual to assume the presidency and the first president with a felony conviction.

Donald Trump maintained a publicly traded company in Truth Social, pursued new overseas real estate deals involving state-affiliated entities, and had several branding and licensing deals selling Trump-branded merchandise.

Donald Trump did not place his assets in a blind trust, did not adopt formal ethics guidelines, and profited from events held at his hotels and golf courses.

Donald Trump noted that conflict of interest laws did not apply to him and that he was protected by broad immunity for his official actions as president.

Donald Trump repealed ethics guidelines and enforcement of laws prohibiting bribery, dropped corruption charges against political figures with ties to him, and granted thousands of shares of stock to his cabinet officials.

Donald Trump launched, promoted, and personally benefited from a cryptocurrency memecoin, $Trump.

Donald Trump directly benefited from his family's cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial which engaged in an unprecedented mixing of private enterprise and government policy.

Donald Trump implemented a hiring freeze across the federal government and ordered telework of federal employees to be discontinued within 30 days.

Donald Trump ordered a review of many career civil service positions with the intention of reclassifying them into at-will positions without job protections.

Donald Trump initiated mass job terminations of federal employees, which were described by legal experts as unprecedented or in violation of federal law, with the intent of replacing them with workers more aligned with his agenda.

Donald Trump ordered an end to diversity, equity, and inclusion projects in the federal government and placed employees in DEI offices on leave.

Donald Trump rescinded Executive Order 11246, which mandated affirmative action and nondiscrimination practices for federal contractors.

Donald Trump inherited a resilient economy from the Biden administration, with increasing economic growth, low unemployment, and declining inflation.

Donald Trump canceled and paused federal grants and made large cuts to scientific research.

Donald Trump appointed oil, gas, and chemical lobbyists to the EPA to reverse climate regulations and pollution controls.

Donald Trump declared a national energy emergency, allowing the suspension of environmental regulations, loosening the rules for fossil fuel extraction and limiting renewable energy projects.

Donald Trump initiated a review of the "legality and continued applicability" of the EPA endangerment finding, which is the basis of most federal regulations on greenhouse gases, and again withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Donald Trump blamed DEI and wokeness for problems in society, and, equating diversity with incompetence, he reversed pro-diversity policies in the federal government.

Donald Trump sought to remake civil society to his preferences by executive order.

Donald Trump ordered the US government to stop funding and working with the WHO and announced the US's intention to formally leave the WHO.

Donald Trump suspended American financial contributions to the World Trade Organization.

Donald Trump gave Musk's Department of Government Efficiency access to many federal government agencies.

Donald Trump threatened, signed executive actions, and ordered investigations into his political opponents, critics, and organizations aligned with the Democratic Party.

Donald Trump engaged in an unprecedented targeting of law firms and lawyers that previously represented positions adverse to himself.

Donald Trump helped bring far-right fringe ideas and organizations into the mainstream.

Donald Trump pushed for an expansion of presidential power under a maximalist interpretation of the unitary executive theory.

Donald Trump's rhetoric has been described as using fearmongering and demagogy, and he has said that he believes real power comes from fear.

Donald Trump has a strong appeal to evangelical Christian voters and Christian nationalists, and his rallies take on the symbols, rhetoric, and agenda of Christian nationalism.

Donald Trump has used anti-communist sentiment in his rhetoric, regularly calling his opponents "communists" and "Marxists".

Donald Trump has been accused of racism for insisting a group of five black and Latino teenagers were guilty of raping a white woman in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, even after they were exonerated in 2002 when the actual rapist confessed and his DNA matched the evidence.

In 2011, Donald Trump became the leading proponent of the racist "birther" conspiracy theory that Barack Obama, the first black US president, was not born in the United States.

Donald Trump claimed credit for pressuring the government to publish Obama's birth certificate, which he considered fraudulent.

Donald Trump acknowledged that Obama was born in the US in September 2016, though reportedly expressed birther views privately in 2017.

Donald Trump has a history of belittling women when speaking to the media and on social media.

Donald Trump made lewd comments, disparaged women's physical appearances, and referred to them using derogatory epithets.

Donald Trump has been identified as a key figure in increasing political violence in the US, both for and against him.

Donald Trump is described as embracing extremism, conspiracy theories such as Q-Anon, and far-right militia movements to a greater extent than any modern American president, and engaging in stochastic terrorism.

Research suggests Donald Trump's rhetoric is associated with an increased incidence of hate crimes, and that he has an emboldening effect on expressing prejudicial attitudes due to his normalization of explicit racial rhetoric.

Since before his first presidency, Donald Trump has promoted numerous conspiracy theories, including Obama "birtherism", global warming being a hoax, and alleged Ukrainian interference in US elections.

Donald Trump frequently makes false statements in public remarks to an extent unprecedented in American politics.

Donald Trump's falsehoods are a distinctive part of his political identity and have been described as firehosing.

Some of Donald Trump's falsehoods were inconsequential, while others had more far-reaching effects, such as his unproven promotion of antimalarial drugs as a treatment for COVID-19, causing a US shortage of these drugs and panic-buying in Africa and South Asia.

Donald Trump often used Twitter to communicate directly with the public and sideline the press; in 2017, his press secretary said that his tweets constituted official presidential statements.

Twitter began attaching fact-checks to tweets in which Donald Trump made false claims in May 2020.

Donald Trump sought media attention throughout his career, sustaining a "love-hate" relationship with the press.

The first Donald Trump presidency reduced formal press briefings from about one hundred in 2017 to about half that in 2018 and to two in 2019; they revoked the press passes of two White House reporters, which were restored by the courts.

Donald Trump says he has never drunk alcohol, smoked cigarettes, or used drugs.

Donald Trump sleeps about four or five hours a night.

Donald Trump has called golfing his "primary form of exercise", but usually does not walk the course.

Donald Trump considers exercise a waste of energy because he believes the body is "like a battery, with a finite amount of energy", which is depleted by exercise.

In 2018, Bornstein said Donald Trump had dictated the contents of the letter and that three of Donald Trump's agents had seized his medical records in a February 2017 raid on Bornstein's office.

Donald Trump said in 2016 that he was a Presbyterian and a Protestant.

Donald Trump rated lowest in the leadership characteristics categories for moral authority and administrative skills.

Donald Trump was ranked near the bottom in all categories except for luck, willingness to take risks, and party leadership, and ranked last in several categories.