The 45th President of the United States, Donald John Trump is an American businessman, television personality, author and of course! A politician. To know more about him; here are some of the interesting facts about Donald Trump:
- Donald Trump belongs to a very rich family. In 1975 his father started a company by borrowing about $ 1 million. Today the net worth of that company is about 1000 million dollars.
- Donald Trump was sent to Military School for Bad Behavior in his teen years.
- He’s a Germaphobe who does not like to shake hands. He greatly dislikes shaking hands and his aversion of shaking hands is based upon a dislike of germs.
- Although he is considered one of the most successful businessmen in America, Trump has had four businesses declare bankruptcy comprising the Atlantic City Trump’s Taj Mahal in 1991; Trump Plaza Hotel in 1992; Trump Hotel and Casino Resorts in 2004; and Trump entertainment resorts in 2009.
- In 1990, Trump threatened to sue the stockbroker firm Janney Montgomery Scott after an analyst said Trump Taj Mahal wouldn’t survive financially. The analyst was fired for it and later the same year Taj Mahal declared bankruptcy.
- Between 1996 and 2015, Trump owned part or all of the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA beauty pageants.
- Trump has been sued 3,500 times by his business partners, contractors, clients, employees, and banks.
- In 1990, Donald Trump won a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actor for his role in Ghost Can’t Do It.
- Trump doesn’t drink alcohol. His brother was an alcoholic and died because of his addiction in 1982.
- Trump owned 14,000 apartments by the time he was 27.
- His family’s name was originally Drumpf or Drumpft but changed to Trump when the Thirty Years’ War occurred in the 1600s.
- As of 2017, at least 24 women have accused Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual behavior in several incidents over the last 30 years.
- Trump’s family fortune began when his grandfather Frederick Trump pulled in a fortune by operating restaurants and boarding houses in the boom towns of Seattle and Klondike, Canada.
- Trump played a cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
- Although Trump’s parents were considered rich, all of the Trump children held after-school jobs when they were young