DONALD TRUMP, டோனால்ட் ஜான் டிரம்ப் ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்காவின் அரசு தலைவர் பிறப்பு: சூன் 14, 1946

DONALD TRUMP, டோனால்ட் ஜான் டிரம்ப் ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்காவின்
அரசு தலைவர் பிறப்பு: சூன் 14, 1946

டோனால்ட் ஜான் டிரம்ப் (Donald John Trump, பிறப்பு: சூன் 14, 1946) அமெரிக்கத் தொழிலதிபரும், அரசியல்வாதியும், ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்காவின் 45வது அரசுத்தலைவரும் ஆவார். குடியரசுக் கட்சி வேட்பாளராக 2016 தேர்தலில் போட்டியிட்டு, மக்களாட்சிக் கட்சி வேட்பாளர் இலரி கிளின்டனை 2016 நவம்பர் 9 இல் வென்றார். 

அமெரிக்க வரலாற்றில் அதிக வயதில் (70) தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ள முதலாவது அரசுத் தலைவர் இவராவார். இவர் திரம்பு குழுமத்தின் தலைவராக உள்ளார். இவருடைய தொழில் வாழ்வில் இவர் உலகம் முழுவதும் அலுவலகக் கட்டடங்கள், சூதாட்ட விடுதிகள், தங்கும் விடுதிகள், கோல்ப் விளையாட்டு திடல்களை அமைத்துள்ளார்.

பிறப்பும் இளமைக் காலமும்[தொகு]

இவர் நியூயார்க் நகரத்தில் உள்ள குயின்சு புறநகர் பகுதியில் பிரட் திரம்புக்கும் மேரி திரம்புக்கும் 1946 ஆம் ஆண்டு பிறந்து நியூயார்க் நகர பகுதியிலேயே வளர்ந்தார். இவரின் பெற்றோருக்கு ஐந்து குழந்தைகள், தொனல்டு திரம்பு நான்காவதாக பிறந்தார். இவரின் மூத்த அண்ணன் சீனியர் திரம்பு போதை பழக்கத்தால் 1981ஆம் ஆண்டில் உயிரிழந்தார். நீதிபதியாக உள்ள மரியேன், எலிசபெத், இராபர்ட் ஆகிய மற்ற மூவரும் உயிருடன் உள்ளனர்.

திரம்பின் தந்தை நியூயார்க் நகரில் பிறந்த செருமானிய இனத்துக்காரர். தாய் இசுட்காலாந்தில் பிறந்து ஐக்கிய அமெரிக்காவில் குடியேறிய இசுகாட்லாந்து இனத்துக்காரர். திரம்பின் அனைத்து (நான்கு) பேரக்குழந்தைகளும் ஐரோப்பாவிலேயே பிறந்தனர். திரம்பின் சித்தப்பா சான் திரம்பு மாசாச்சூசெட்சு தொழில்நுட்பக் கழகத்தில் பேராசியராக 1936 முதல் 1973 வரை பணியாற்றினார். 

இரண்டாம் உலகப்போர் சமயத்தில் நேச நாடுகளுக்காக ரேடார் தொடர்பான ஆராய்ச்சியில் பங்கெடுத்தார், நிக்கோலா தெல்சாவின் தாள்களையும் கருவிகளையும் அமெரிக்க புலன் விசாரணை கூட்டாட்சிப் பணியகம் ஆராய இவரிடம் கூறியது. தன் குடும்ப மரபணு சிறந்தது என்பதைக் காட்ட சித்தப்பாவையே அடிக்கடி திரம்பு காட்டுவார்.[3]
திரம்பு நியூயார்க் நகரின் புறநகரான பிரான்க்சு பகுதியிலுள்ள போர்தம் பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் ஆகத்து 1964 முதல் இரண்டு ஆண்டுகள் படித்து விட்டு பின் பென்சில்வேனியா பல்கலைக்கழகத்தின் வார்ட்டன் பள்ளியில் சேர்ந்து 1968இல் பொருளாதாரத்தில் இளங்கலை பட்டம் பெற்றார் [4][5] அங்கு படித்த போது குடும்ப நிறுவனமான எலிசபெத் திரம்பு & சன் (தந்தை வழி பாட்டி பெயரில் இருந்ந நிறுவனம்) என்பதில் பணி புரிந்தார்.[6]

திரம்பு வியட்நாம் போரில் சேவையாற்ற தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்படவில்லை [7]. 1964 முதல் 1968 வரை நான்கு முறை மாணவர் என்ற முறையில் விலக்கு பெற்றார்.[8] 1968 இல் உடல் தகுதியுடன் இருப்பதாக கூறப்பட்டபோதிலும் மருத்துவ காரணத்துக்காக விலக்குப்பெற்றார்.[9]








தொழிலதிபர்[தொகு]

கல்லூரியில் படிக்கும் காலத்தில் தந்தையின் வீட்டு மனை விற்பனை நிறுவனமான எலிசபெத் திரம்பு& சன் என்பதில் புரிந்தார். 1971இல் நிறுவனத்தின் முழு பொறுப்பும் இவரிடம் வந்தது. முதல் வேலையாக நிறுவனத்தின் பெயரை திரம்பு அமைப்பு (திரம்பு ஆர்கனிசேசன்) என மாற்றினார். 1973இல் அந்நிறுவனத்தின் தலைவராக பொறுப்பேற்றார்.

அவ்வாண்டு இவரும் இவரின் தந்தையும் நீதித்துறையால் கருப்பர்களுக்கு எதிராக பிரித்துணரும் செயலை செய்கின்றனர் என்று குற்றஞ்சாட்ப்பட்டதால் கவனத்தை பெற்றனர். திரம்பின் பணியில் முதல் பெரிய திட்டம் எதுவென்றால் 1978இல் மேன்காட்டனில் உள்ள கிராண்ட் அயத் ஓட்டலை மீள் புத்துணர்வு கொண்டுவருவதற்கானது ஆகும்.
திரம்பு டவர் என்ற 58 அடுக்குமாடி கட்டடத்தை மேன்காட்டனின் நடுப்பகுதியில் கட்ட 1978இல் பேச்சு வார்த்தைகளை முடித்து 1983இல் அக்கட்டடத்தை முடித்தார். 

இதில் திரம்பின் வீடும் திரம்பு அமைப்பின் தலையகமும் இருந்தன. அப்பரண்டிசு என்ற தொடர் இங்கு தான் எடுக்கப்பட்டது. இங்கு தொலைக்காட்சித்தொடருக்கான முழு அரங்கம் இருந்தது.

தொலைக்காட்சித் தொடர்களில் பங்களிப்பு[தொகு]

இவர் திரைப்படங்களிலும் தொலைக்காட்சி தொடர்களிலும் சிறு வேடத்தில் நடித்துள்ளார். 2004 இலிருந்து 2015 வரை என்பிசி தொலைக்காட்சியில் தி அப்ரன்டிசு (The Apprentice) மெய்த் தொடரில் நடித்ததுடன் அதன் இணை தயாரிப்பாளராகவும் இருந்தார். இது இவரை நாடு முழுவதும் அறியச்செய்தது.

அரசியலில் நுழைவு[தொகு]

2000ஆம் ஆண்டு சீர்திருத்தக் கட்சி சார்பில் அமெரிக்க அதிபர் தேர்தலில் போட்டியிட மனு விரும்பினார், ஆனால் கட்சி தேர்தலில் வெற்றி பெறவில்லை.[10] 2000ஆம் ஆண்டு கட்சி சாரா வேட்பாளராக அதிபர் பதவிக்கு போட்டியிட நினைத்தார். அது போலவே 2008, 2012 ஆண்டுகளிலும் நினைத்தார். 

பின் 2014ஆம் ஆண்டு ஆளுநர் பதவிக்கு போட்டியிட நினைத்தார்.[11] யூன் 2015இல் குடியரசு கட்சி சார்பில் அதிபர் பதவிக்கு போட்டியிட போவதாக அறிவித்தார். மே 2016இல் இவரை எதிர்த்த அனைவரும் போட்டியிலிருந்து விலகியதால் யூலை மாதம் கிலீவ்லன்டில் நடந்த குடியரசு கட்சியின் பேரவையில் அதிகாரபூர்வமாக குடியரசு கட்சி வேட்பாளராக இவர் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டார்.


குடும்பம்[தொகு]

டொனால்டு டிரம்புக்கு 3 மனைவிகள். 

முதல் 2 மனைவிகளான இவானா மற்றும் மர்லா மேப்சுள் ஆகியவர்களை விவாகரத்து செய்து விட்ட டிரம்ப், தற்போது 3-வது மனைவியான மெலேனியாவும், டிரம்பு - மெலேனியா இணையருக்குப் பிறந்த பாரன் டிரம்பு என்ற 10 வயது மகனுடன் தனியாக வசித்து வருகிறார். டொனால்ட் ட்ரம்பின் குடும்ப உறுப்பினர்கள் விவரம்:

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மெலானியா டிரம்பு: டொனால்ட் டிரம்பின் தற்போதைய மூன்றாவது மனைவி.

பாரன் டிரம்பு: டொனால்ட் டிரம்பின் தற்போதைய மூன்றாவாது மனைவி மெலானியாவின் ஒரே மகன், வயது 10.

ஜெராட் குஷ்னர்: டொனால்ட் டிரம்பின் மருமகன். டிரம்பின் மூத்த மகள் இவாங்காவின் கணவர்.


இவாங்கா டிரம்பு: டொனால்ட் டிரம்பின் மூத்த மகள். இவர் டிரம்பின் முதல் மனைவி இவானாவுக்கும், டிரம்புக்கும் பிறந்த ஒரே பெண் குழந்தை.

டிஃபானி டிரம்பு: டொனால்ட் டிரம்பின் இரண்டாவது மகள். அவரது இரண்டாவது மனைவி மர்லா மேப்ள்சுளுக்குப் பிறந்தவர்.

வனெசா டிரம்பு (ஹைடன்): டொனால்ட் டிரம்பின் மருமகள். அவரது மகன் டொனால்ட் ட்ரம்ப் ஜூனியரின் மனைவி.

காய் டிரம்பு: டொனால்ட் டிரம்பு பேரப்பிள்ளைகளில் மூத்தவர். டொனால்ட் ஜூனியருக்கும் வனெசா ட்ரம்புக்கும் பிறந்த ஐந்து பிள்ளைகளில் மூத்த மகன்.

டொனால்ட் டிரம்பு ஜூனியர்: டொனால்ட் டிரம்பின் மூத்த மகன். டொனால்ட் டிரம்புக்கும் அவரது முதல் மனைவி இவானாவுக்கும் பிறந்தவர்.

எரிக் டிரம்பு: டொனால்ட் டிரம்பின் முதல் மனைவி இவானா மூலம் பிறந்த மூன்றாவது மகன்.

லாரா யுனஸ்கா: டொனால்ட் டிரம்பின் மருமகள். மகன் எரிக் டிரம்பின் மனைவி.




Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He took charge of his family's real estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded it into Manhattan. The company built or renovated several skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, including licensing his name for real estate and consumer products. He managed the company until his 2017 inauguration. He co-authored several books, including The Art of the Deal. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and he produced and hosted the game show The Apprentice from 2003 to 2015. According to March 2018 estimates by Forbes, he is the world's 766th richest person, with a net worth of US$3.1 billion.

Trump entered the 2016 presidential race as a Republican and defeated sixteen opponents in the primaries. Commentators described his political positions as populist, protectionist, and nationalist. His campaign received extensive free media coverage; many of his public statements were controversial or false. Trump was elected president in a surprise victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. He became the oldest and wealthiest person ever to assume the presidency, the first without prior military or government service, and the fifth to have won the election while losing the popular vote. His election and policies have sparked numerous protests.

In domestic policy, Trump ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, citing security concerns; a revised version of the ban was implemented after legal challenges. He signed tax reform legislation that cut rates, rescinded the individual insurance mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act, and opened the Arctic Refuge for oil drilling. He also enacted a partial repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act that had imposed stricter constraints on banks in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. He made dozens of judicial appointments, including Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

In foreign policy, Trump has pursued his America First agenda. He withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations and the Paris Agreement on climate change, partially reversed the Cuban thaw, recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. He imposed import tariffs on various goods from China, Canada, Mexico and the European Union.

After Trump dismissed FBI Director James Comey, the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate coordination or links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in its election interference. Trump has repeatedly denied accusations of collusion and obstruction of justice, calling the investigation a politically motivated "witch hunt".

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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He took charge of his family's real estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded it into Manhattan. The company built or renovated several skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, including licensing his name for real estate and consumer products. He managed the company until his 2017 inauguration. He co-authored several books, including The Art of the Deal. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and he produced and hosted the game show The Apprentice from 2003 to 2015. According to March 2018 estimates by Forbes, he is the world's 766th richest person, with a net worth of US$3.1 billion.

Trump entered the 2016 presidential race as a Republican and defeated sixteen opponents in the primaries. Commentators described his political positions as populist, protectionist, and nationalist. His campaign received extensive free media coverage; many of his public statements were controversial or false. Trump was elected president in a surprise victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. He became the oldest and wealthiest person ever to assume the presidency, the first without prior military or government service, and the fifth to have won the election while losing the popular vote. His election and policies have sparked numerous protests.

In domestic policy, Trump ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, citing security concerns; a revised version of the ban was implemented after legal challenges. He signed tax reform legislation that cut rates, rescinded the individual insurance mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act, and opened the Arctic Refuge for oil drilling. He also enacted a partial repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act that had imposed stricter constraints on banks in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. He made dozens of judicial appointments, including Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

In foreign policy, Trump has pursued his America First agenda. He withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations and the Paris Agreement on climate change, partially reversed the Cuban thaw, recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. He imposed import tariffs on various goods from China, Canada, Mexico and the European Union.

After Trump dismissed FBI Director James Comey, the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate coordination or links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in its election interference. Trump has repeatedly denied accusations of collusion and obstruction of justice, calling the investigation a politically motivated "witch hunt".


Family and personal life
Ancestry and parents
Further information: Trump family
Trump's ancestors originated from the German village of Kallstadt in the Palatinate on his father's side, and from the Outer Hebrides in Scotland on his mother's side. All of his grandparents and his mother were born in Europe.[1]

Trump's paternal grandfather, Friedrich Trump, first immigrated to the United States in 1885 at the age of 16 and became a citizen in 1892. He amassed a fortune operating boom-town restaurants and boarding houses in the Seattle area and the Klondike region of Canada during its gold rush.[2] On a visit to Kallstadt, he met Elisabeth Christ and married her in 1902. The couple permanently settled in New York in 1905.[3] Frederick died from influenza during the 1918 pandemic.[4]

Trump's father Fred was born in 1905 in The Bronx. Fred started working with his mother in real estate when he was 15, shortly after his father's death. Their company, "E. Trump & Son", founded in 1923,[5][nb 1] was primarily active in the New York boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. Fred eventually built and sold thousands of houses, barracks, and apartments.[4][10] The company was later renamed The Trump Organization, after Donald Trump took charge in 1971.[11]

Trump's mother Mary Anne was born in Tong, Lewis, Scotland. At age 18 in 1930, she immigrated to New York, where she worked as a maid.[12] Fred and Mary were married in 1936 and raised their family in Queens.[12][13]

Early life and education
A black-and-white photograph of Donald Trump as a teenager, smiling and wearing a dark pseudo-military uniform with various badges and a light-colored stripe crossing his right shoulder. This image was taken while Trump was in the New York Military Academy in 1964.
Senior yearbook photo of Trump in 1964 wearing the uniform of his private boarding school, New York Military Academy[14][15]
Donald John Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Queens, New York City, the fourth of five children.[16] Trump grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and attended the Kew-Forest School from kindergarten through seventh grade. At age 13, he was enrolled in the New York Military Academy, a private boarding school, after his parents discovered that he had made frequent trips into Manhattan without their permission.[17][18]

In 1964, Trump enrolled at Fordham University.[14][19] After two years, he transferred to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[19][20] While at Wharton, he worked at the family business, Elizabeth Trump & Son.[21] He graduated in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics.[19][22][23]

Trump did not serve in the military during the Vietnam War.[24] While in college from 1964 to 1968, he obtained four student deferments.[25] In 1966, he was deemed fit for service based upon a military medical examination and in July 1968, after graduating from college, was briefly classified as eligible to serve by a local draft board. In October 1968, he was classified as 1-Y, "unqualified for duty except in the case of a national emergency,"[26] and given a medical deferment which he later attributed to heel spurs; in 1972, the medical deferment was changed to 4-F, "not qualified for service."[26][27][28] In the draft lottery in December 1969, Trump's birthday, June 15, received a high number which would have given him a low probability to be called to military service even without the 1-Y medical deferment.[26][27][29]

Family
Main article: Family of Donald Trump

Donald Trump is sworn in as president on January 20, 2017. From left to right in foreground: Trump, wife Melania, son Donald Jr., son Barron, daughter Ivanka, son Eric, and daughter Tiffany
Trump grew up with three elder siblings—Maryanne, Fred Jr., and Elizabeth—as well as a younger brother named Robert. Maryanne is an inactive Federal Appeals Court judge on the Third Circuit.[30]

Trump has five children by three marriages, as well as nine grandchildren.[31][32] His first two marriages ended in widely publicized divorces.[33]

In 1977, Trump married Czech model Ivana Zelníčková at the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, in a ceremony performed by the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale.[34][35] They had three children: Donald Jr. (born 1977), Ivanka (born 1981), and Eric (born 1984). Ivana became a naturalized United States citizen in 1988.[36] The couple divorced in 1992, following Trump's affair with actress Marla Maples.[37]

In October 1993, Maples gave birth to Trump's daughter, who was named Tiffany after high-end retailer Tiffany & Company.[38] Maples and Trump were married two months later in December 1993.[39] They divorced in 1999,[40] and Tiffany was raised by Marla in California.[41]

Trump and his wife Melania at the Liberty Ball on Inauguration Day
In 2005, Trump married his third wife, Slovenian model Melania Knauss, at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida. The ceremony was followed by a reception at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.[42] In 2006, Melania became a United States citizen[43] and gave birth to a son, Barron.[44][45] Melania became First Lady upon Trump's inauguration as president in January 2017.[46]

Upon his inauguration as president, Trump delegated the management of his real estate business to his two adult sons, Eric and Don Jr.[47] His daughter Ivanka resigned from The Trump Organization and moved to Washington, D.C. with her husband Jared Kushner. She serves as an assistant to the president,[48] and he is a Senior Advisor in the White House.[49]

Religion
Trump's ancestors were Lutheran on his father's side in Germany[50] and Presbyterian on his mother's side in Scotland.[51] His parents married in a Manhattan Presbyterian church in 1936.[52] As a child, he attended the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, and had his Confirmation there.[35] In the 1970s, his family joined the Marble Collegiate Church (an affiliate of the Reformed Church in America) in Manhattan.[53] The pastor at that church, Norman Vincent Peale ministered to Trump's family and mentored him until Peale's death in 1993.[54][53] Trump, who is Presbyterian,[55][56] has cited Peale and his works during interviews when asked about the role of religion in his personal life.[53]

Trump says he receives Holy Communion, but that he does not ask God for forgiveness.[57] While campaigning, Trump referred to The Art of the Deal as his second favorite book after the Bible, saying, "Nothing beats the Bible."[58] The New York Times reported that evangelical Christians nationwide thought "that his heart was in the right place, that his intentions for the country were pure".[59]

Trump has had associations with a number of Christian spiritual leaders, including Florida pastor Paula White, who has been called his "closest spiritual confidant".[60] In 2015, he received a blessing from Greek Orthodox priest Emmanuel Lemelson[61][62] and released a list of religious advisers, including James Dobson, Jerry Falwell Jr., Ralph Reed, and others.[63][64] Referring to his daughter Ivanka's conversion to Judaism before her marriage to Kushner, Trump said: "I have a Jewish daughter; and I am very honored by that."[65]

Health
Trump does not drink alcohol;[66] this decision arose in part from watching his older brother Fred Jr. suffer from alcoholism that contributed to his early death in 1981.[67][68] He also said that he has never smoked cigarettes or consumed drugs, including marijuana.[69]

In December 2015, Trump's personal physician, Harold Bornstein, released a superlative-laden letter of health praising Trump for "extraordinary physical strength and stamina".[70] Bornstein later said that Trump himself had dictated the contents.[71] A followup medical report showed Trump's blood pressure, liver and thyroid functions to be in normal ranges, and that he takes a statin.[72][73] In January 2018, Trump was examined by White House physician Ronny Jackson, who stated that he was in excellent health, although his weight and cholesterol level were higher than recommended,[66] and that his cardiac assessment revealed no medical issues.[74] Several outside cardiologists commented that Trump's weight, lifestyle and LDL cholesterol ought to have raised serious concerns about his cardiac health.[75]

Wealth

A tall rectangular-shaped tower in Las Vegas with exterior windows reflecting a golden hue. It is a sunny day and the building is higher than many of the surrounding buildings, also towers. There are mountains in the background. This tower is called the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas.
Trump International Hotel Las Vegas, with gold-infused glass[76]
Trump is the beneficiary of several trust funds set up by his father beginning in 1949; Trump’s paternal grandmother also set up a trust fund for him in 1949.[77] In 1976, Fred Trump set up trust funds of $1 million for each of his five children and three grandchildren; Donald Trump received annual payments from his trust fund, for example $90,000 in 1980 and $214,605 in 1981.[77] By 1993, when Trump took two loans totaling $30 million from his siblings, their anticipated shares of Fred's fortune was $35 million each.[78][77] Upon Fred Trump’s death in 1999, his will divided $20 million after taxes among his surviving children.[77][79][80]

Trump said that he began his career with "a small loan of one million dollars" from his father.[81] He appeared on the initial Forbes 400 list of richest Americans in 1982 with an estimated $200 million fortune shared with his father.[82] An ex-Forbes reporter said in 2018 that Trump had inflated his actual wealth in order to be included on the list.[83][84] Trump made the Forbes World's Billionaires list for the first time in 1989,[85] but he was dropped from the Forbes 400 from 1990 to 1995 following business losses.[82] In 2005, Deutsche Bank loan documents pegged Trump's net worth at $788 million, while Forbes quoted $2.6 billion and journalist Tim O'Brien gave a range of $150 to $250 million.[85] In its 2018 billionaires ranking, Forbes estimated Trump's net worth at $3.1 billion (766th in the world, 248th in the U.S.)[86] making him one of the richest politicians in American history.


When he filed mandatory financial disclosure forms with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) in July 2015, Trump claimed a net worth of about $10 billion;[87] however FEC figures cannot corroborate this estimate because they only show each of his largest buildings as being worth "over $50 million", yielding total assets worth more than $1.4 billion and debt over $265 million.[88] Trump reported a yearly income of $362 million for 2014,[87] and $611 million from January 2015 to  May 2016.[89]