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Subject: FW: Facts about Trump

 

 

 

 

Just passing this on. Have not tried to verify.

 

Wow, very, very
interesting.  Much of this I didn't
know. Good reading...see especially the
last line...

         
                 
Specifications:
 
*   Donald John  Trump, was born June 14, 1946.  

   *   He will be 70  years old on election day.
  
   *   From the  Internet, he is
6'2" or 6'3' and weighs between 195 and
200  lbs.  

   *   He has a full  head of blond/brown hair
(which is long and
elaborately combed) and blue  eyes.  

   *   The Internet  tells us he wears a size 12
shoe.
   *   Donald Trump  was born the fourth
of five children who were born
over eleven  years.  

   *   The oldest,  Mary Ann, was born in 1937
and is currently a Federal 
Judge.   
 
*   His older  brother, Fred Jr, died in early adulthood
as a result of
complications from  alcoholism.  

   *   He has another  older sister, Elizabeth
and a younger brother, 
Robert.   
   *
  Donald Trump  has been married three times.  

   *   Trump's first  wife, Ivana, was an
immigrant from Czechoslovakia
and a divorcee who has  been
married 4 times in her life. She is a lifelong
avid skier and worked
in design at the Trump  Organization.  
   *
  Marla Maples,  Trump's second wife is an actress and model
 
   *   Trump's third  wife, Melania is an
immigrant from Slovenia (born in
Yugoslavia) and has been a super
model.   
   *   Two of Trump's children,
Donald Jr and Ivanka, have gone to Penn.
Son Eric, went to
Georgetown.  
   *   Donald Trump tells us that
he is Presbyterian.   
   *   Donald
Trump does not appear to have had any interest in occults,

mysticism  or exotic mythologies.  
   *
  Donald Trump's oldest daughter, Ivanka, and her three children
are
Jewish.  
   *   Trump's oldest
daughter, Ivanka, is married to Jared Kushner who
is, among
other things, a newspaper publisher. The Kushner family is very

successful in New York City area real estate.  
 
*   Donald's  grandmother, mother, first wife, and third
wife are all 
immigrants.
   *   Donald
Trump  was born and raised in Queens NY.  
   *
  Though his family was very wealthy, Trump's boyhood home in the

Jamaica Estates section of Queens was not a grand mansion. The Trump
home was
a  larger version of the homes Fred Trump was building
for his tenants.  
   *   There are no
indications that the Trump family lived among the
wealthy
elites on vacations or country clubs.  
   *  
Queens is the largest of New York's five boroughs and the most

ethnically diverse.  
   *   Trump attended
a local private day school, the Kew Forrest School,
in Queens
until about 8th grade.  
   *   His secondary
schooling was at New York Military Academy which is
about 60 miles
north of NYC in Cornwall on the Hudson. He was the class of
1964.
 
   *   Trump was never  a "Preppie".
 
   *   Trump never embraced any aspect of the
"Hippie" movement of the 
time.  
   *
  Trump was  a very good high school athlete - football,
soccer, and
especially baseball.  He had potential to become a
professional baseball 
player.  
   *  
Even in high  school - Trump liked women and women liked him.
 
   *   Trump was  generally popular in
high school.  
   *   Trump's  boarding
school room mate liked him.  
   *   He attended
Fordham University in NYC for two years and
transferred to the
University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.  

   *   At that time, the Wharton School offered a
rare program for Real
Estate Business.   
 
*   Though he was of age, Donald Trump did not serve in
Vietnam.  
   *   He was not drafted due to bone
spurs in his heels (4F) and also
student deferments.  

   *   Ultimately, in the draft lottery, he drew a
high number.
   *   By all we know, Donald Trump does
not smoke, drink or use
recreational drugs. He'll be the first
President in more than 25 years who hasn't
smoked weed.  

   *   BTW: Trump's  children don't smoke or
drink.  
   *   Trump makes it well known that
he enjoys sexual interaction with 
women.  
 
*   I am unaware that Donald Trump is a recreational gambler.
 
   *   His doctor publicly announced Donald to
be in excellent health.
I  think that to really know Donald
Trump, you must know his family 
background.  The Trump
family story is a very American story.

Trump  family history -
concise version.
   *   Donald Trump's
grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Alsace
(Kallstadt,
Germany) which throughout history has been alternately French and

German. The Trumps are German, originally speaking the same German
dialect
as the Amish of  Lancaster County, PA.  

   *   His maternal grandparents lived in Scotland.
  
   *   Freiderich (Drumph) Trump made a
small but respectable fortune in
the late 19th Century in the mining
boom towns of the American Northwest.  
   *  
He returned to Germany to marry his childhood neighbor, Elizabeth
 
Christ.  
   *  The newly married
Trumps resettled in the Borough of Queens NY.   
 
*   Freidrich was establishing a real estate business in
Queens when
he died suddenly at age 49 (1918).  
 
*   In 1920, at the  age of 15, Fred Trump (Freiderich's
son and
Donald's father), started a  business partnership with
his widowed mother called
Elizabeth Trump &  Son.  

   *   This business was built upon the real estate
holdings that his
father, Frederich, had amassed (worth about
$500,000.00 in today's dollars).
This is the original  "seed
money" of the current Trump organization.  
   *
  Elizabeth &  Fred remained close business partners her
entire life
(she died in 1966).  
   *   In
1936 Fred Trump (age 31) married Mary Ann MacLeod (age 24) of

Stoneaway Scotland.  
   *   During the
depression, Fred Trump built and successfully operated
a supermarket
(a new concept at the time) which was sold to King Kullen Co.
and
operates this day.  
   *   Fred Trump made
a lot of money building housing for the military
during WWII.
  
   *   Fred Trump was investigated by
the Justice Department for making
"excessive profits" from
government contracts.  
   *   All (or
nearly all) of the building of Elizabeth Trump &  Son's

non-government building was residential property in Queens.  

   *   Fred Trump died  in 1999 (age 94) -
beloved and worth between $250
million and $300 million.  His
wife died a year later.

"The  Donald's" career:

Donald  Trump is the greatest career achiever of the "baby
boomer" 
generation. 

Donald  Trump has reached the
zenith in his careers as book author, TV
entertainer, sports
entertainer, real estate developer, and currently 
politician.
 
   *   Donald Trump  has authored more
than 18 books. At least one of
them, "The Art of the Deal" was a top
seller.  
   *   Donald says that the Holy Bible
is his favorite book. "The Art of
the Deal" is his 2nd favorite
book. And "The Power of Positive Thinking" by
Norman Vincent Peale
is his third favorite  book.  
   *   He
likes golf.  Donald Trump has developed more than 11 golf

courses which bear his  name.  
   *  
Donald Trump has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award  

   *   Donald Trump has a star on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame.  
   *   Donald Trump has been inducted
into the Professional Wrestling Hall
of  Fame.  

   *   Donald Trump  has appeared in more than a
dozen movies such as "Home
Alone 2", "Zoolander", and "Little
Rascals".   
   *   Donald Trump  has
been a guest actor in more than 6 TV shows such 
as "Fresh
Prince of  Bel Aire", "Days of Our Lives", "Sex and the City", and
 
others.  
   *   Trump has been the
executive producer of 7 TV shows.  
   *   Trump
has been the guest host of 5 TV shows such as Extra, Larry
King
Live, Saturday Night Live and more.  
   *  
Donald Trump  has been co-producer of the longest running reality

TV  show.  
   *   Donald Trump
performed in several WWE wrestling shows.  
 
*   Donald performed in Wrestlemania 23 which set attendance
records
and revenue records up til that time.  
 
   *   In his first candidacy for public
office, Donald Trump received
the most popular votes for the
President of the United States out of a field
of experienced and
successful politicians. And in most cases, he achieved
this with
less  money than any of his opponents.

Keeping in mind that 90% of start
up businesses fail, Trump's record of
enterprise is  nothing
short of amazing.  Trump has enjoyed success in at least 11 very
different
enterprises:  Professional football, ice skating
rinks, fragrance, ice, steaks, wines, 
model management,
airline, blenders, men's wear, bicycle races, world class
beauty
contests, and many others. In some of these, such as model

management, his firm has risen to the top of that particular
industry. 
   *   There are 31 buildings that
bear his name.  
   *   The largest private real
estate development in New York is Trump
       
Riverside. Drive down the Henry Hudson Blvd. - you can't miss them.
 
   *   There are at  least 12 Trump
Towers  
   *   There are at  least 6 Trump
Plazas.  
   *   There are at  least 11
Trump Golf Course developments.   
   *  
And much, much, more in real estate.  
   *  
Trump  Entertainment, Casinos and Resorts was recently sold to Carl

Ichan.  
   *   Donald Trump's
personal managing of the Wollman Ice Skating Rink
project in
the early  1980's is the quintessential case study for MBA

students in Wharton,  Harvard, and other business schools. His
performance there
was  phenomenal.  
   *
  Donald Trump's  privately held businesses have employed more
than
200,000  people.  
   *   In the
casino  business in Atlantic City, Trump had to do business

with known mobsters -  and he stayed "clean" and alive.  

   *   Aside from his  personal investments,
Donald Trump has never been a
Wall Street  "player".
The
Political Trump:
about  1967 - 1987 - Democrat (he was a
supporter of Ronald  Reagan)
1987  - 1999 - Republican

1999  - 2001 - Reform Party (he supported Ross Perot)
2001
- 2009 - Democrat
2009  - 2011 - Republican
2011
- 2012 - Independent
2012  - Present - Republican

Donald  Trump was openly supportive of Mitt Romney's candidacy.

Donald  Trump does not seem to hold political party
organizations in high regard.
For  the most part, his political
involvement has been for practical reasons.
Donald  Trump does
not appear to be held to political  ideology. 

Some of my take aways:
 
*   Trump has an  extraordinarily energetic central
nervous system much
like Teddy Roosevelt but more targeted to
industry and enterprise.  
   *   Trump's
presidency will be very energetic, transparent, and
 
communicative.  
   *   Trump will be
a  very hard working President.  
   *  
His interaction  with his older brother (who everybody loved) tells

me that he thinks that  everybody is like him - or wants to be
- or should be.  
   *   His  relationship
with his older brother was a hard lesson in
tolerance for him.
 
   *   Trump is the Babe Ruth of career
achievements.   
   *   He is dumb like a
fox. When you think he just said something
stupid - he didn't. It's
just that you were not his target audience.  
   *
  Trump knows the people - the folk.  
   *
  His son, Donald Jr. is right. Trump is a "Blue Collar
 
Billionaire".  
   *   More than
anything, his TV show, The  Apprentice, was his passion.
He
wants all Americans to have  confidence (like he does) to venture.
 
   *   Donald Trump is attracted to and
marries smart, high achieving 
women.  
   *
  The highest levels of a Trump Administration is certain to have

many women - and they will be bright and assertive.  

   *   Donald Trump's children are very important to
him. And it shows.

 

PS: And we know almost nothing about
our current president with 2 terms in office.