Donald Trump: The Four Billion Dollar Man
Jamal Williams
Central High School
November 9, 2015
1st Period
Abstract
Today, I will take a detailed look at the life of presidential candidate Donald Trump. I will highlight his accomplishments, failures, and everything in between. Hopefully, after reading this you will have a better understanding of the man who will possibly become the head of the state.
Donald Trump: The Billion Dollar Candidate
In this paper, I will be discussing Donald John Trump with you. He is one of the richest presidential candidates ever, but there is more to him than money. Today, I will be diving deep into his personal life, from the child he was, to the man he has become, including all of his financial successes, and struggles as well as his presidential policies. For this seven page report, The Donald will be under a fine microscope, I hope you enjoy.
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on July 14, 1946, Donald John Trump made his first of many room gripping appearances. He was the fourth of five children between Frederick and Mary Trump. His mother was a Scottish immigrant, born on the Isle of Lewis, off the west coast of Scotland. While Trump was growing up in a two-story home on Wareham Place in Jamaica Estates, he attended the private Kew-Forest School in Forest Hills, Queens, where his father, was a member of the Board of Trustees. His father told an interviewer in 1983 he "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small", prompting him to enroll his son in the New York Military Academy in eighth grade for the duration of his high school education. After graduating in 1964, Trump entered Fordham University for two years; he soon left Fordham to study at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance because it possessed one of the country's few real estate departments. He studied accounting, finance, money and banking, and mortgages before graduating in
1968. Upon graduation with a degree in economics in 1968, Trump joined his father's company, with a clear view of what he wanted to do: develop real estate in the biggest way possible. He persuaded his father to expand the company's holdings by taking loans against their equity, which then stood at $200 million. Trump became president in 1975 and changed the company's name to Trump Organization. MARRIAGE LIFE In 1990 Trump drew up plans in Los Angeles for building a $1 billion commercial and residential project featuring a 125-story office building. Despite his experiences at making deals and recognizing good investments, however, Trump could not counter a downward real estate market. Trump faced bankruptcy when he was unable to make massive loan payments of over $2 billion.
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York City, New York in the United States. Theodore was the second child of four children in a wealthy, upper-class family. Theodore’s father was a businessman and philanthropist. Theodore’s mother was also born from an affluent family. Starting at a very early age, Theodore suffered from a heavy case of asthma and had horrible eyesight throughout his whole life. He did a lot of physical activity and developed a very strong physique. Despite physical barriers, Theodore had a very strong outlook on life and was very strong physically and mentally. Theodore was also very intelligent and he attended Harvard College and Columbia Law School.
George W. Bush was born July 6th, 1946 and grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He received a Bachelor's degree from Yale University as well as a Masters in Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. Mr. Bush has made several million dollars as an oil and gas businessman and was a part owner in the Texas Ranger Baseball team. He was elected as Governor to the State of Texas in November of 1994 and was re-elected to a second term to the same office in 1998. In one of the most widely publicized and highly scandalous Presidential campaigns, George W. Bush became the current US President.
Donald Trump is a man of great wealth, as well as power and influence. There is no question that Trump worked hard to get where he is today. He is most defiantly a man of business. Even at the beginning of his life he was destined to show brilliance due to his father’s work. These events of course, would eventually lead to his extraordinary empire and his chance to run as President of the United States.
The citizens of the United States have a very important decision coming up in the near future. This decision will impact how our country’s leadership will guide us through healthcare policy, economics, foreign policy and various other issues for the next 4 years. All of the candidates have their own leadership style, however the one I will focus on will be the Narcissist style leadership Donald Trump displays.
That is what I will explain in the following. When Trump was a child, he is very energetic and assertive; therefore, he was sent to the New York Military Academy as he was thirteen years old by his parents. They hoped the rule of the school would harness his energy in a more productive manner. He did well at The New York Military Academy and became a star football, baseball, and soccer player. Trump was a good student in both socially and academically, and that rose him to be a student leader before he graduated in 1964. In 1968, he graduated with a degree in economics at the Wharton School of Finance of Pennsylvania. Donald Trump has known as an eccentricity and unconventional person, especially in his businesses practices. His unconventional business style exhibits several leadership characteristics. One of the most his prominent characteristics is that he needs a personal power. He is eccentric, powerful, but his business decisions are very smart decisions. All these skills have made him was known as a very well recognized businessman as well as a good national leader. There are common characteristics in all leaders. They are values, and leader and cognitive abilities. Mr. Trump owns all of these traits. The leadership styles of Donald Trump made him become a rich, powerful, and famous person. Moreover, he also has known throughout the world. It is hard to command attention from the audience, and it is very important. However, Trump can do that because when Trump speaks, people listen to him. Each person is born with a certain talent. There is someone who is capable of good teamwork, who is good at working alone, and for Trump, he has good leadership
Trump has never been America’s most popular television host. Years before his television debut, Trump was near personal bankruptcy. He persevered from being nearly $900 million in debt. Trump’s success has been drawn from his vast real estate holdings in Manhattan (Naughton). “Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story, continually setting the standards of excellence while expanding his interests in real estate, gaming, sports, and entertainment. He is the archetypal businessman – a deal-maker without peer and an ardent philanthropist” (“The Donald”).
As a result of extreme hard work and perseverance followed by an unmatchable drive to succeed, Donald J. Trump has earned the right to be known as a multi-billionaire, real estate icon, and President of the United States of America. Reflecting on his life, he has faced an abounding amount of challenges and overcame them all. To understand how he rose to success and his journey to the top of the kingpin, it is important to recognize how he saw the American dream and pursued it. Today, many will recognize him as the president, but a small percentage of people can fully grasp all that he has done in his life. From his start as a real estate mogul, to his impact on media, there are many questions as to how he became so recognizable today.
Donald Trump is a business person and television personality who is currently running for president of the United States, but this is not the first time that Donald Trump has run for the presidency. In 1987 Donald Trump first considers a run for president, do to business he refrained from running. Then in the year 2000 Donald Trump enters the presidential race as a Reform Party candidate, he received more than 15,000 votes in the California primary. Three years later in 2003 Donald Trump again decide to run for president, but ultimately decides not to join the race. Then again on April 2011, Trump repeatedly calls for President Obama to release his long-form birth certificate he questioned whether Obama was actually born in the United States. (Obama eventually complies and releases the birth certificate.) Then on May 2011 Donald Trump officially announces that he would not be running for president.[1] Finally on June 2015 Donald Trump announce his
A.Electric jets and cars, trains that travel through a vacuum, a solar city. Things that sound like they are out of a sci-fi movie one man is trying to make possible. That man is Elon Musk.
Donald Trump has justified his candidacy with the talk of his business acumen and wealth, and this has often been controversial. But candidates running on the power of their wealth is not a new phenomenon. One example of a past candidate running for the Presidential office with their wealth as the foundation of their election campaign was Nelson Rockefeller in the 1960s election. Theodore White (1962, 66) describes Rockefeller as being “Born into what is America's closest counterpart to a royal family, raised within the walls of the greatest private fortune known to man”. So, a Trump candidacy is not as unconventional as it is often
Donald Trump is known for his eccentricity and unconventional businesses practices. He exhibits an unconventional leadership style. Donald Trump started early to develop his personal brand, this is exhibited by every piece of real estate Mr. Trump owns. Every casino, building or golf course has his name on it. He is eccentric, powerful, but yet he makes very smart business decisions. He is also a risk taker. All these business skills have made him a very well recognized business leader, and one of the nations most known billionaires. Donald Trump has appeared in many magazines, has written a couple of books, and even gotten his own show on NBC called “The Apprentice”. But what makes Donald Trump successful in almost every endeavor he takes on? Was he born a leader? or did he just become a great leader. There are certain characteristics common in all leaders. Some of those are values, skills and cognitive abilities. Mr. Trump exhibits all of these traits. If this is what has made him as successful as he is, why are certain leaders not able to achieve his type of success? Perhaps he has something extra that has propelled him above everybody else. Everything that he touches seems to turn to gold. Donald Trump’s leadership styles have made him rich, powerful, famous and known through out the world. This paper will examine some of those leadership styles.
Donald John Trump was born in June 14, 1946, in New York, NY. He was the third generation in his family, coming from a family of businessmen. Fred Trump, the father of Donald taught Donald all the entrepreneurial skills he knows. He was the son of a self-millionaire, which Fred picked up his skills from realizing he had to help support his family due to the death of his father. Fred started his own business where he learned all the money was in real estate. By Donald's father he learned to recognize a good deal and jumped on it for the reason he was learning at such a young age. In 1968, he graduated business school in the major of finance. Shortly, after school he joined a club where he would make his contacts. In 1975, he made his first purchase of a run-down hotel. He began to place his name on anything he touched.
A former real estate mogul, Donald J. Trump was born and raised in New York City, idolizing capitalism and the “American Dream” business style. Born into a family of prominence and wealth, Donald is a product of capitalism. His astounding net worth of 3.5 billion dollars exemplifies his success in business. Active in politics since eluding to a Presidential run in 1987, he took his political career to another level when he decided to run for President of the United States in 2016. Appealing to the white working class with little or no education, he secured votes through controversial means. Although many doubted a win and while he lost the
Donald Trump is the very definition of the American success story, continually setting standards of excellence, while expanding his interest in real estate, sports, and entertainment. (SHOW YOUR SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP). Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946 at 10:54 a.m., in Queens, New York City, NY. He is 6’3, blond hair,blue eyes, and is 69 years old. He is a politician, who is the republican candidate for the Presidential nomination for the United States of America, but did you know that he voted for Obama even though he is a democrat! However he is a very successful and wealthy man.Also he is an author and the senator of New York.
Despite Trump having never held any political office previously and not clearly expressing his solutions in the early debates, he leapt out to a commanding lead at the beginning of the race and continues to hold a significant margin of victory. Trump’s advantage in appearance comes from having tangible evidence of how good he is at what he does. When people see Donald Trump they see his buildings, his money, his television shows, and they listen when they hear the man worth billions of dollars promising great things for America’s future. Trump has built many businesses from the ground up, as early as 1984. Wohl creates a timeline of Trump’s major achievements: “Opens $250-million Harrah's hotel-casino in Atlantic City. Opens second casino there, Trump's Castle, the following year” (14). Trump has fixed many businesses and buildings over his lifetime: “Trump bought the former Chicago Sun-Times headquarters in 2005 for $73 million...was named Travel+Leisure’s best large city hotel in North America in 2010.”(Koffler). People want America to be Trump’s next great success. If someone is looking at another candidate, he or she will hear the senator, governor, or congressman’s name in association with a bill or other piece of legislation. When a fellow “establishment” candidate is compared to Donald Trump, people see the stereotypical politician who promises a lot and delivers nothing. Donald Trump’s success in