Ah...he IS rich and he IS successful! What's your point?
And he started from scratch instead of just taking over his grandmas company
His Grandma? What was her name, you stupid, lying jackass? His father LOANED him a million dollars so Trump could start his OWN business on a bet, and Trump went off on a tangent not only succeeding and winning the bet and paying his father back, but totally reinventing the company doing stuff his dad would never touch.
Her name was Elizabeth and she is the E in E Trump and Son, the name of the company that became the Trump Organization.
It is remarkable how uninformed people are, and you are allowed to vote. That is damn scary.
Only thing damn scary is that you'll believe anything. What I told you I heard directly from the Trumps themselves in a TV interview. Now tell me you know more about their lives than they do. Fcking asshole.
And of course Trump will never tell a lie! **** you are stupid.
The Trump Organization - Wikipedia
The company's background starts with
Frederick Trump and
Elizabeth Christ Trump, a German immigrant couple who moved to the borough of
Queens in 1906. Frederick began developing real estate there. In 1918, however, he died of
influenza, leaving an estate valued at $31,359 ($492,016 in 2016 dollars).
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Elizabeth carried on in the real estate business after her husband's death. She had a local contractor build houses on an empty piece of property they owned, sold the houses, and lived off the mortgage and rental proceeds paid by the new owners. Her vision was to have her three children continue the family business when they finished school, but her middle son,
Fred Trump, wanted to start earlier. She founded the company "E. Trump & Son" in 1923, when Fred was 18, to give him his start.
[20][a] Since he was underage, she signed all legal documents. E. Trump & Son went out of business during the
Great Depression.
[25] Fred next opened a supermarket, but quickly sold it and returned to the real estate business by 1933.
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Fred Trump became a prolific builder of single-family homes in Queens and Brooklyn.
[28] During World War II, he constructed apartments and temporary housing for military personnel in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
[28] In 1944, he shifted his focus back to Brooklyn and began planning to develop large apartment buildings.
[29] He opened the 1,344-unit Shore Haven complex in 1949,
[30] followed by Beach Haven in 1950,
[31] and
Trump Village in 1964.
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Elizabeth would remain involved in the family business throughout her life. Even in her 70s, she would collect coins from the laundromats in the Trump buildings.
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Leadership under Donald Trump[edit]
Donald Trump worked for his father's business while attending the
University of Pennsylvania, and in 1968 officially joined the company.
[33] In the early 1970s, Donald was made president of the company, while Fred became chairman of the board.
[34] Around 1973, Donald began referring to the business, which had previously had no single formal name, as the Trump Organization.
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