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Donald John Trump 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 in the New York City borough of Queens. He earned an economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A third-generation businessman, Trump followed in the footsteps of his grandmother Elizabeth and father Fred in running the family real estate company. He served as chairman and president of The Trump Organization from 1971 until his inauguration as president in January 2017, when he delegated company management to his sons Donald Jr. and Eric. Trump's business career primarily focused on building or renovating office towers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses.

Trump also started several side ventures and branded various products with his name. He is credited as having written or co-written several books , and produced and hosted The Apprentice television series for 12 years. As of 2017, he was the 544th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $3.5 billion.

Trump had long expressed interest in politics. He 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 won the general election on November 8, 2016, in a surprise victory against Democratic opponent 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 despite losing the popular vote. His election and policies have sparked numerous protests.

In domestic policy, Trump has unsuccessfully attempted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. He appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. He ordered a travel ban on citizens from six Muslim-majority countries, citing security concerns; the ban was partially implemented after several legal challenges. In foreign policy, he withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Climate Agreement, undid parts of the Cuban Thaw, and ordered missile strikes in Syria in response to the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack. After Trump dismissed FBI Director James Comey, the Justice Department appointed Comey's predecessor Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russia's interference in the presidential election, potential links between Russia and Trump campaign associates, and any related matters.

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Donald J. Trump Quotes

“It's going to get worse in our country and we better start fighting a lot tougher than we're fighting right now.”

2015-07-16

Trump: 'Absolutely Ridiculous' Marines Not Allowed to Carry Guns at Centers

Fox News Insider

http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/07/16/donald-trump-reacts-chattanooga-shootings-oreilly-factor
2010s, 2015

“We have to be tough. It's time we're going to be a little bit tough, folks. We're taken advantage by every nation in the world, virtually. It's not going to happen any more.”

White House suggests US may still accept Australia refugees despite clash https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/02/donald-trump-australia-refugees-malcolm-turnbull-phone-call (2 February 2017)
2010s, 2017, February

“Hillary wants to raise taxes. It's a comparison. I want to lower them.”

2010s, 2016, August, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)

“It was a slow and brutal death for so many…Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack.”

President Trump on Syria's chemical weapons attack, "President Trump blasts Syria for 'cruelly murdering' its own people as U.S. fires at least 50 missiles at airfield" http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-blasts-syria-murdering-civilians-u-s-strike-article-1.3027449, 6 April 2017.
2010s, 2017, April

“If you're in the White House, who wants to take a vacation? You're in the White House!… What's better than the White House? Why these vacations?”

Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA December 5, 2015 rally
2010s, 2015

“We can't have someone in the Oval Office who doesn't understand the meaning of the word "confidential" or "classified."”

Trump campaign speech in Greenville, North Carolina http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-classified-information/ (6 September 2016)
2010s, 2016, September

“We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.”

Donald Trump declares 'I love the poorly educated' as he storms to victory in Nevada caucus http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-declares-i-love-the-poorly-educated-as-he-storms-to-victory-in-nevada-caucus-a6893106.html, 24 February 2016
2010s, 2016, February

“Do people notice Hillary is copying my airplane rallies - she puts the plane behind her like I have been doing from the beginning.”

Tweet https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/778237485402980352 (20 September 2016), quoted in "Trump blasts Clinton for 'copying' his airplane rallies" http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-blasts-clinton-for-copying-his-airplane-rallies/article/2602310 by Kelly Cohen, Washington Examiner (20 September 2016)
2010s, 2016, September

“I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records.”

Associated Press interview, 2011-04-25
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Trump: How did Obama get into the Ivy League?
2011-04-25
CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20057214-503544.html
2011-05-01
https://archive.is/dnCsg
2013-06-28
About Barack Obama's education, who graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and graduated magna cum laude with a Juris doctorate from in 1991
2010s, 2011

“I sort of hope [a housing crash] happens because then people like me would go in and buy.”

How to Build a Fortune (2006), Trump University audiobook, quoted in * 2016-05-19 Jeremy Diamond Donald Trump in 2006: I 'sort of hope' real estate market tanks CNN https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/politics/donald-trump-2006-hopes-real-estate-market-crashes/index.html
2000s

“A guy who didn't have the guts to run for president. Little Michael. He doesn't know anything about me. But he never had the guts to run. He probably wished he did but he didn't. He spent millions of dollars on polling but he was missing one thing: guts. Little Michael.”

On Michael Bloomberg's speech about Trump. At an interview with The New York Times'<nowiki/> Maureen Dowd. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/opinion/trumps-thunderbolts.html (July 29, 2016)
2010s, 2016, July

“Donald Trump: I think you've become very negative.
Bill O'Reilly: Why would I do that?
Trump: Who knows. You'll have to ask your psychiatrist.”

"Trump to O'Reilly: 'I think you've become very negative'" http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-bill-oreilly-gop-debate-220241 by Nick Gass, Politico (3 March 2016)
2010s, 2016, March

“I said to the bankers, "Listen, fellows, if I have a problem, then you have a problem. We have to find a way out or it's going to be a difficult time for both of us."”

Fortune (13 August 1990), as quoted in The World According to Trump (2005) by Ken Lawrence, p. 44
Cf. J. Paul Getty: "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
1990s

“It's not just jobs that are being lost to other countries. We are seeing whole industries vanish overseas.”

Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 85

“I think that I would be a great uniter. I think that I would have great diplomatic skills. I think that I would be able to get along with people very well. I've had a great success in my life. I think the world would unite if I were the leader of the United States.”

2010s, 2015
Source: 2015-07-30

Trump: 'World would unite if I were the leader'

Jesse Byrnes

The Hill

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/249875-trump-world-would-unite-if-i-were-the-leader

“Katy Perry must have been drunk when she married Russel [sic] Brand - but he did send me a nice letter of apology!”

Twitter https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/522854696663265282 (16 October 2014)
2010s, 2014

“You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens.”

Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 89

“Space. A lotta room out there, right? [Buzz Aldrin interjects: To infinity and beyond! ] This is infinity, it could be infinity, we don't really don't know, but it could be, there's gotta be something, but it could be infinity, right?”

Trump speaking while signing an Executive Order on the National Space Council https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/06/30/remarks-president-signing-executive-order-national-space-council (30 June 2017)
2010s, 2017, June

“I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.”

Interview with Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan in (November 2003).
2000s

“We have places in London and other places that are so radicalised that the police are afraid for their own lives. We have to be very smart and very vigilant.”

As quoted in "Donald Trump claims parts of London are 'so radicalised' police officers are 'afraid for their lives'" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-claims-parts-of-london-are-so-radicalised-police-officers-are-afraid-for-their-lives-a6765026.html by Rose Troup Buchanan, The Independent (8 December 2015); also in "'Trump's not wrong – we can't wear uniform in our OWN cars': Five police officers claim Donald Trump is RIGHT about parts of London being so 'radicalised' they are no-go areas" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3352406/Scotland-Yard-mocks-Trump-s-claims-London-police-terrified-Muslim-areas-officers-claim-tycoon-RIGHT.html by Martin Robinson, Daily Mail Online (9 December 2015)
2010s, 2015

“Hillary Clinton said she'd consider naming Barack Obama as her vice president when she gets the nomination, but she's nowhere near a shoo-in.”

About the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries in audio released by the Journal. As quoted in Donald Trump Once Said Hillary Clinton Would Make A 'Good President' http://time.com/4402522/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-good-president/ (July 12, 2016) by Tara John, The Times.
2000s

“I will rebuild our military. It will be so strong and so powerful and so great that we'll never have to use it. Nobody's gonna mess with us.”

Campaign rally in Mobile, Alabama ( video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta5AFn4MDUY) —
2010s, 2015

“I am extremely pleased to see that @CNN has finally been exposed as #FakeNews and garbage journalism. It's about time!”

Tweet published by @realdonaldtrump https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881138485905772549 (1 July 2017)
2010s, 2017, July

“Hillary said that guns don't keep you safe. If she really believes that she should demand that her heavily armed bodyguards quickly disarm!”

Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10156490246225725
2010s, 2016, January

“The things that were said about me. … You know what, I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard. … I was gonna hit one guy in particular, a very little guy. I was gonna hit this guy so hard, his head would spin. He wouldn't know what the hell happened.”

Press conference, reported in Jacob Bogage, " ‘I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard', Trump says of Democratic convention https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/29/i-wanted-to-hit-a-couple-of-those-speakers-so-hard-trump-says-of-dem-convention-critics/", The Washington Post (July 29, 2016).
2010s, 2016, July

“For the first time in a long while, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans. How can she be President of our country when she has such contempt and disdain for so many great Americans?”

[Clinton walks back 'deplorables' comment: I 'regret' using the term to describe 'half' of Trump's supporters, Beremy, Berke, Business Insider, 10 September 2016, http://www.businessinsider.com/clinton-regrets-deplorables-comment-2016-9/]
2010s, 2016, September

“In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.”

Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 355

“We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore.”

2010s, 2016, July, (21 July 2016)

“I don't know how you do it. I've put together some really impressive deals, but this thing you've pulled off, it's amazing: a Big N' Tasty for just a dollar. How do you do it? What's your secret? Together Grimace, we could own this town.”

Trump's lines in a McDonald's advert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4QNXnNftWk (2002), quoted in * 2019-01-15 Rachel Desantis Donald Trump’s lifelong love of fast food, from his 2002 McDonald’s commercial to ‘hamberders’ New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-donald-trump-has-always-loved-fast-food-20190115-story.html
2000s

“Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/803567993036754944, quoted in * 2019-10-29 When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties - and How to Take Them Back David Kirby St. Martin's Press 1466870052
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2010s, 2016, November

“When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn't work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!”

Tweet https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1029329583672307712 by President Trump about Omarosa Manigault, as quoted by CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/trump-omarosa-attacks/index.html (August 14, 2018)
2010s, 2018, August

“So this is promoting agriculture and rural prosperity in America. And, now, there's a lot of words I won't bother reading everything.”

Remarks by President Trump in Farmers Roundtable and Executive Order Signing Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/25/remarks-president-trump-farmers-roundtable-and-executive-order-signing (April 25, 2017)
2010s, 2017, April