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Trump’s 2018 disclosure form put his revenue for the year at a minimum of $434 million from all sources.

In 1990, Trump asserted his own net worth in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion. He was raised Presbyterian and later attended Marble Collegiate Church, a Protestant house of worship led by Reverend Norman Vincent Peale at the time, and The Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, an Episcopal congregation in Florida.

He also secured education deferments for the draft for the Vietnam War and, ultimately, a 1-Y medical deferment after he graduated.

Entrepreneur and Author

After college, Trump followed his father into a career in real estate development and brought his grander ambitions to the family business.

He was part-owner of the Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, and Miss Universe beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015. His parents were German immigrants, though he claimed Swedish ancestry for decades after World War II. Fred Sr. cut his teeth as a real estate developer while still a teenager and later specialized in constructing and operating middle-income apartments in Queens and nearby Brooklyn.

In 1930, Donald’s mother left her home in Tong, Scotland, for the United States as a 17-year-old named Mary Anne MacLeod.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin delivered the announcement, with the president remaining silent on the matter.

In July, days before Trump was to meet with Putin in Finland, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced additional charges against 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the DNC and the Clinton campaign.

Meeting With Putin

The White House announced that Trump would hold his first formal discussions with Russian President Putin in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16, 2018.

His administration also banned bump stocks in October 2017 after a mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival left 58 people dead.

The Valentine's Day 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left a total of 17 students and faculty dead, sparked a strong response from Trump. Whereas Donald’s father was the hard-driving disciplinarian, his mother set the tone for his religious education.

“The fact that Trump has added North Korea — with few visitors to the U.S. — and a few government officials from Venezuela doesn’t obfuscate the real fact that the administration’s order is still a Muslim ban,” said Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. A lawyer for the Trump Organization replied that "most, if not all, of the facts appear to be inaccurate" in the Times report.

U.S.

The order called for a ban on immigrants from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen for at least 90 days, temporarily suspended the entry of refugees for 120 days and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely. “We are disappointed in certain so-called Republicans,” Trump responded.

On October 12, 2017 Trump signed an executive order in a move that could dismantle the ACA without Congress’s approval, expanding health insurance products — mostly less comprehensive plans through associations of small employers and more short-term medical coverage.

With Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemning Trump's "unacceptable actions" and French President Emmanuel Macron threatening to isolate the U.S. from the Group of 7, the president faced a frosty reception at the G-7 summit in Quebec in June. "Sometimes you have to walk," the president said, before adding that things concluded on good terms.

On June 30, 2019, Trump became the first sitting U.S.

president to set foot in North Korea when he met with Kim for informal discussions at the Demilitarized Zone between the two countries on the Korean peninsula. The New York Times No. 1 bestseller sold more than 1 million copies. After being examined for noticeable swelling in his legs, the 79-year-old was diagnosed with chronic veinous insufficiency, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on July 17.

However, the business leader had shown an interest in politics decades earlier and even explored running for president on the Reform Party ticket in 2000. Donald Jr. joined the family business in 2001 followed by younger brother Eric six years later. In 2001, Trump registered as a Democrat.

By 2009, Trump had switched back to the Republican party, though he registered as an Independent in 2011 to allow for a potential run in the following year’s presidential election.

It was also required to share race-based data of its renters and applicants in 16 buildings for a two-year period.

Trump University

In 2005, Trump launched his for-profit Trump University, offering classes in real estate and acquiring and managing wealth. His administration saw the implementation of a number of controversial immigration policies, including a travel ban for several predominantly Muslim countries; the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership; scaled back financial regulations and environmental protections; and Trump’s appointment of three Supreme Court justices.