Donald Trump/ Who is the 47th president of the USA! From childhood to friends and problems with justice

2024-11-06 10:34:42 / BOTA ALFA PRESS

Donald Trump/ Who is the 47th president of the USA! From childhood to friends

The portrait of Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the American presidential elections and the 47th president of the United States, has been published in "Speciale Il Voto Usa" that appeared with the newspaper Corriere della Sera.

78 years old, for the third time a candidate for president of the USA. Son of a real estate developer who divides the world into losers and winners. Military academy, business school, exemption from military service that saves him from Vietnam. His entrepreneurial beginnings, successes and investments in Manhattan: Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago.

The house is located at 8514 Midland Parkway in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens. This is where Donald Trump grew up. He and his brothers simply called it "home." If we're going to tell the story of Trump going through the most important places in his life, we have to start here: from the House, to the White House, where he's trying to get back.

House

Donald was born in 1946, the fourth of five children of Fred and Mary Trump and the second son. He was one year old when the family moved into the 23-room neoclassical mansion built by his father, a builder and apartment owner in Brooklyn. Fred Trump began building his fortune at the age of 15, with his mother as a partner, after the death of his German immigrant father.

To understand Donald, according to his granddaughter Mary, a psychologist, who dedicated the book "Too Much and Never Enough" to him, one must understand his need for success, which encourages children to see the world divided into winners and losers, to lie and exaggerate their worth, to never admit mistakes. And one must understand the absence of the mother, a sickly, self-supporting Scottish immigrant who was reluctant to deal with the children. Growing up in the House means living in a mixture of privilege and abandonment.

Fred, the eldest son, is a disappointment in his father's eyes, dies of alcoholism at the age of 42. But when he was 14, he had an episode that the family (except Donald) still laugh about: Fred throws a bowl of mashed potatoes at Donald's head because he's bothering his younger brother, Robert, and no one reaches stop it.

In the 1940s, Jamaica Estates was an affluent white neighborhood and, according to Mary, when an Italian-American family moved there in the 1950s, Fred Trump was shocked. In the 1960s and 1970s, this neighborhood was marked by racial segregation and anger, themes that Trump channeled into his presidential campaigns, which were characterized by a vision of an out-of-control America and cities that would sink from crime and violence.

Në moshën 13 vjeçare e dërgojnë në Akademinë Ushtarake të Neë York-ut, një kolegj ushtarak privat, për ta disiplinuar pasi mësuesit e shkollës Keë-Forest ankohej edhe pse babai i tij ishte në këshillin e administratës për papërmbajtshmërinë dhe bullizmin ndaj shokëve më të vegjël për t'u mbrojtur. Pas dy vitesh në Universitetin Fordham në Bronx, në vitin 1966 ai transferohet në shkollën më prestigjioze të biznesit, Ëharton School të Universitetit të Pensilvanisë, për të studiuar biznes: ai tashmë ka vendosur të marrë vendin e vëllait në biznesin e familjes, Trump Management. Dhe kur diplomohen në vitin 1968, babai i tij paguan një podiatrist të Queens-it (një qiramarrës i tij) që të nënshkruajë një diagnozë për "shpërthime kockore në gishta" për ta përjashtuar nga shërbimi ushtarak përndryshe ai do të shkonte në Vjetnam.

Ai është 22 vjeç kur fillon të punojë për të atin dhe në moshën 24 vjeçare bëhet president i kompanisë (Fred mbetet CEO). Nuk i mungojnë paratë për veshje të shtrenjta dhe makinat e bukura. Ai fillon të frekuentojë qarqet e elitës (të cilat, megjithatë, deri në fund do ta shikojnë nga lart) si Le Club, në rrugën 55, që frekuentohej nga Vanderbilt dhe Kennedy. Ai paraqitet jo vetëm si një playboy i pasur, por si një biznesmen brilant që "ka bërë gjithçka vetë".

Trump Tower

Donald tashmë jeton në Manhattan kur takon Ivanën, një modele çekosllovake. Pas martesës, ata shpërngulen në një apartament të vogël në Fifth Avenue, më pas në tetë dhoma po aty dhe pas pesë vitesh në ndërtesën ‘Trump Toëer, e hapur në vitin 1983 kur ai ishte ende punonjës i të atit.

Filmi "The Apprentice" i Ali Abbasi ofron një përmbledhje të atyre viteve të para, megjithatë është kundërshtuar nga tykoni. Në vitin 1973, Departamenti i Drejtësisë padit Donaldin dhe të atin për refuzimin e dhënies me qira të apartamenteve të tyre për afroamerikanët (Ëoody Guthrie ka shkruar një këngë për këtë). Roy Cohn, një avokat i përfshirë në kryqin antikomunist të Joseph McCarthy, e ndihmon të menaxhojë rastin, duke i këshilluar të padisë qeverinë për të bërë publicitet (përfundimisht ai përfundon në faqen e parë të gazetave në moshën 27 vjeçare) dhe gjithçka përfundon me një marrëveshje. Cohn bëhet një mentor dhe i mëson tre rregulla: "Sulmo, sulmo, sulmo. Mos prano asgjë, moho gjithçka. Kërko gjithmonë fitoren". Kjo është ajo që ai bën ende sot.

In 1975, Donald designs for the Grand Hyatt to replace the old Commodore on 42nd Street, winning through political friendships a tax abatement of $10 million a year for 40 years. But the idea of ​​investing in a series of casinos in Atlantic City is wrong (they compete with each other) and leads him to multiple bankruptcies. He tries to steal the brothers' inheritance, his marriage to Ivana (who gave him three children) fails in part because of his affair with Marla Maples. But the newspapers put him on the cover and the banks still finance him, even though he is bankrupt, in the hope of getting their money back.

"The Apprentice," the prime-time show he stars in on NBC, will export his image as a successful businessman and leader across America in the 2000s. Now Trump Tower is one of the assets that Letitia James, New York's attorney general, has threatened to seize if the tycoon doesn't pay the impending half-billion-dollar fine imposed by a Democratic judge after a New York jury convicted him. for exaggerating the value of his assets to reach favorable agreements; but there are signs that the Court of Appeal may jeopardize the decision.

Mar-a-Lago Villas

In 1985, Trump buys Mar-a-Lago, a 58-room, 33-bathroom, 167-square-foot salon on Palm Beach, Florida, home to America's rich and powerful, at a bargain price. . Here he marries Melania in 2005 and among the guests are the Clintons, then his friends. Here he hides classified documents that he was supposed to hand over to the National Archives after his term in the White House, but a judge he appointed when he was president closed the case of special prosecutor Jack Smith (the same one who has accused him of January 6). Here in March 2024 he celebrates victory in the primaries, which once again declare him the Republican candidate for the White House.

 

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