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Donald Trump is the 45th president (2017–21) and 47th president (2025– ) of the United States. He is the second U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms. Prior to his 2016 run for the presidency, Trump was best known as a real-estate developer and businessman who owned, managed, or licensed his name to commercial and residential properties around the world. From 2004 to 2015 he also starred in the reality television series "The Apprentice," which featured contestants competing in various challenges to become one of his employees. Trump was the Republican Party’s candidate for president in 2016, and his campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” helped him to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. During his first term Trump sought to change tax regulations and limit immigration, among other actions, and he was responsible for the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in early 2020.The U.S. House of Representatives impeached Trump on charges connected to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters after his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Trump was acquitted by the U.S. Senate. He was indicted in 2023 on four separate sets of criminal charges; he denied all wrongdoing. In 2024 he was convicted on multiple felony counts of falsifying business records. In 2024 Trump was again the Republican candidate for president, and he defeated Democrat Kamala Harris. After he took office in January 2025, he pursued trade policy, downsizing the federal government, and the elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs as top priorities.
spouse Melania Trump • daughter Ivanka Trump • son Donald Trump, Jr. • son of Frederick Christ Trump • son of Mary MacLeod • husband of Melania Trump (January 22, 2005–present) • husband of Marla Maples (December 20, 1993–June 8, 1999) • husband of Ivana Trump (April 9, 1977–March 22, 1992) • father of Donald Trump, Jr. (b. 1977) • father of Ivanka Trump (b. 1981) • father of Eric Trump (b. 1984) • father of Tiffany Trump (b. 1993) • father of Barron Trump (b. 2006) • brother of Maryanne Trump Barry • brother of Frederick Trump, Jr. • brother of Elizabeth Trump Grau • brother of Robert Trump
"Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again" (2015) • "Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich—And Why Most Don't" (2011; with Robert T. Kiyosaki) • "Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again" (2011) • "Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education in Business and Life" (2009; with Meredith McIver) • "Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success" (2008; with Meredith McIver) • "Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life" (2007; with Bill Zanker) • "Trump 101: The Way to Success" (2007; with Meredith McIver) • "Trump: The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received: 100 Top Experts Share Their Strategies" (2006) • "Why We Want You to Be Rich: Two Men, One Message" (2006; with Robert T. Kiyosaki) • "The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received" (2005) • "The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received" (2004) • "Trump: How to Get Rich" (2004; with Meredith McIver) • "Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life" (2004; with Meredith McIver) • "The America We Deserve" (2000; with Dave Shiflett) • "Trump: The Art of the Comeback" (1997; with Kate Bohner) • "Trump: Surviving at the Top" (1990; with Charles Leerhsen) • "Trump: The Art of the Deal" (1987; with Tony Schwartz)
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)
"54" (1998) • "Spin City" (1998) • "Horrorween" (2011) • "Marmalade" (2004) • "Two Weeks Notice" (2002) • "Zoolander" (2001) • "Celebrity" (1998) • "NightMan" (1997) • "The Drew Carey Show" (1997) • "Suddenly Susan" (1997) • "The Nanny" (1996) • "Eddie" (1996) • "Across the Sea of Time" (1995) • "The Little Rascals" (1994) • "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" (1992) • "Ghosts Can't Do It" (1989)
Top Questions
When was Donald Trump elected?
Donald Trump won the general election for his first term as U.S. president on November 8, 2016. He won the general election for his second term as president on November 5, 2024.
When did Donald Trump take office?
Donald Trump began his first term as U.S. president on January 20, 2017. He left office when his term ended on January 20, 2021. Trump began his second term as president on January 20, 2025.
Where is Donald Trump originally from?
Donald Trump was born and raised in New York City.
Where was Donald Trump educated?
Donald Trump attended New York Military Academy (1959–64), a private boarding school; Fordham University in the Bronx (1964–66); and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School (1966–68).
When did Donald Trump go into politics?
From the 1980s Donald Trump periodically mused in public about running for president of the United States, but those moments were widely dismissed in the press as publicity stunts. In 1999 he established a presidential exploratory committee; though he ultimately declined to run in 2000, he coauthored a book that year, The America We Deserve, in which he set forth his socially liberal and economically conservative political views. In June 2015 Trump announced that he would be a candidate in the U.S. presidential election of 2016, and, after winning the general election in November, he took office for the first time on January 20, 2017.
How many electoral votes did Donald Trump get?
In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump won the electoral college by 304 votes to 227. In the 2020 presidential election, Trump lost by 306 electoral votes to 232. In the 2024 presidential election, Trump won by 312 electoral votes to 226.
How old was Donald Trump when he was inaugurated?
Donald Trump was 78 years old when he was inaugurated as president for the second time, in 2025. He is the oldest person to win the office.
Where is Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort?
Mar-a-Lago is located in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump purchased the 118-room mansion on the site in the 1980s; he floated a plan to his creditors to convert the estate into a luxury housing development consisting of several smaller mansions, but local opposition led him instead to turn it into a private club, which was opened in 1995.
What did Donald Trump study?
Donald Trump majored in economics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1968.
How many times was Donald Trump impeached?
Donald Trump was impeached twice by the U.S. House of Representatives, in 2019 and 2021. He was acquitted both times by the U.S. Senate. Trump is the third president to be impeached and the first to be impeached two times.
Did You Know?
Trump is the second U.S. president to serve noncontinuous terms. The first was Grover Cleveland, who was the 22nd president (1885–89) and the 24th president (1893–97).
In 1999 Trump switched his voter registration from Republican to the Reform Party and established a presidential exploratory committee; he ultimately declined to run for president in 2000, however, and he later rejoined the Republican Party.
Trump has said that he decided to abstain from drinking alcohol after seeing its effects on his older brother Freddy, whose alcoholism led to his early death at the age of 43.
In 1989 Trump teamed with the Milton Bradley Company to release a board game called Trump: The Game, which shared some similarities with the popular real-estate board game Monopoly; the Trump-branded game saw disappointing sales and was soon retired, though it was rereleased 15 years later after Trump had found increased fame as the star of the reality television show "The Apprentice."
When the U.S. economy fell into recession in 1990, many of Trump's businesses suffered, and he was forced to surrender his airline, sell his 282-foot yacht, and take out second or third mortgages on nearly all of his properties; during this period, estimates of Trump's net worth ranged from $1.7 billion to minus $900 million.
