DONALD TRUMP INFO

Subject: QUITE INTERESTING!... Mr. Trump's info

(after reading this, check out the bottom line in red)

Information one probably does not know but interesting.

Specifications:

• Donald John Trump, was born June 14, 1946.
• He will be 70 years old on election day. 
• From the Internet, he is 6'2" or 6'3' and weighs between 195 and 200 lbs.
• He has a full head of blond/brown hair (which is long and elaborately combed) and blue eyes.
• The Internet tells us he wears a size 12 shoe.

• Donald Trump was born the fourth of five children who were born over eleven years.
• The oldest, Mary Ann, was born in 1937 and is currently a Federal Judge. 
• His older brother, Fred Jr, died in early adulthood as a result of complications from alcoholism.
• He has another older sister, Elizabeth and a younger brother, Robert. 
• Donald Trump has been married three times.
• Trump's first wife, Ivana, was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia and a divorcee who has been married 4 times in her life. She is a lifelong avid skier and worked in design at the Trump Organization. 
• Marla Maples, Trump's second wife is an actress and model
• Trump's third wife, Melania is an immigrant from Slovenia (born in Yugoslavia) and has been a super model. 
• Two of Trump's children, Donald Jr and Ivanka, have gone to Penn. Son Eric, went to Georgetown.
• Donald Trump tells us that he is Presbyterian. 
• Donald Trump  does not appear to have had any interest in occults, mysticism or exotic mythologies.
• Donald Trump's oldest daughter, Ivanka, and her three children are Jewish.
• Trump's oldest daughter, Ivanka, is married to Jared Kushner who is, among other things, a newspaper publisher. The Kushner family is very successful in New York City area real estate. 
• Donald's grandmother, mother, first wife, and third wife are all immigrants.

          Donald Trump was born and raised in Queens NY

• Though his family was very wealthy, Trump's boyhood home in the Jamaica Estates section of Queens was not a grand mansion. The Trump home was a larger version of the homes Fred Trump was building for his tenants. 
• There are no indications that the Trump family lived among the wealthy elites on vacations or country clubs.
• Queens is the largest of New York's five boroughs and the most ethnically diverse.
• Trump attended a local private day school, the Kew Forrest School, in Queens until about 8th grade. 
• His secondary schooling was at New York Military Academy which is about 60 miles north of NYC in Cornwall on the Hudson. He was the class of 1964.
• Trump was never a "Preppie".
• Trump never embraced any aspect of the "Hippie" movement of the time.
• Trump was a very good high school athlete - football, soccer, and especially baseball. He had potential to become a professional baseball player.
• Even in high school - Trump liked women and women liked him
• Trump was generally popular in high school.
• Trump's boarding school room mate liked him.
• He attended Fordham University in NYC for two years and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.
• At that time, the Wharton School offered a rare program for Real Estate Business. 
• Though he was of age, Donald Trump did not serve in Vietnam.
• He was not drafted due to bone spurs in his heels (4F) and also student deferments.
• Ultimately, in the draft lottery, he drew a high number.

• By all we know, Donald Trump does not smoke, drink or use recreational drugs. He'll be the first President in more than 25 years who hasn't smoked weed.
• BTW: Trump's children don't smoke or drink
• Trump makes it well known that he enjoys sexual interaction with women.
• I am unaware that Donald Trump is a recreational gambler.
• His doctor publicly announced Donald to be in excellent health.

I think that to really know Donald Trump, you must know his family background.

The Trump family story is a very American story.

 Trump family history - concise version.

• Donald Trump's grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Alsace (Kallstadt, Germany) which throughout history has been alternately French and German. The Trumps are German, originally speaking the same German dialect as the Amish of Lancaster County, PA.
• His maternal grandparents lived in Scotland. 
• Freiderich (Drumph) Trump made a small but respectable fortune in the late 19th Century in the mining boom towns of the American Northwest.
• He returned to Germany to marry his childhood neighbor, Elizabeth Christ.
• The newly married Trumps resettled in the Borough of Queens NY
• Freidrich was establishing a Real Estate business in Queens when he died suddenly at age 49 (1918).
• In 1920, at the age of 15, Fred Trump (Freiderich's son and Donald's father), started a business partnership with his widowed mother called Elizabeth Trump & Son. 
• This business was built upon the real estate holdings that his father, Frederich, had amassed (worth about $500,000.00 in today's dollars). This is the original "seed money" of the current Trump Organization. 
• Elizabeth & Fred remained close business partners her entire life (she died in 1966).
• In 1936 Fred Trump (age 31) married Mary Ann MacLeod (age 24) of Stoneaway Scotland.
• During the depression, Fred Trump built and successfully operated a supermarket (a new concept at the time) which was sold to King Kullen Co. and operates this day. 
• Fred Trump made a lot of money building housing for the military during WWII. 
• Fred Trump was investigated by the Justice Department for making "excessive profits" from government contracts.
• All (or nearly all) of the building of Elizabeth Trump & Son's non-government building was residential property in Queens.
• Fred Trump died in 1999 (age 94) - beloved and worth between $250 million and $300 million. His wife died a year later.

 

"The Donald's" career

Donald Trump is the greatest career achiever of the "baby boomer" generation.

Donald Trump has reached the zenith in his careers as book author, TV entertainer, sports entertainer, Real Estate developer, and currently politician.

 

• Donald Trump has authored more than 18 books. At least one of them, The Art of the Deal was a top seller. 
• Donald says that the Holy Bible is his favorite book. The Art of the Deal is his 2nd favorite book. And The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale is his third favorite book.
• He likes golf. Donald Trump has developed more than 11 golf courses which bear his name.
• Donald Trump has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award
• Donald Trump has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Donald Trump has been inducted to the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame.
• Donald Trump has appeared in more than a dozen movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander, and Little Rascals  
• Donald Trump has been a guest actor in more than 6 TV shows such as Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Days of Our Lives, Sex and the City, and others. 
• Trump has been the Executive Producer of 7 TV shows.
• Trump has been the guest host of 5 TV shows such as Extra, Larry King Live, and Saturday Night Live and more. 
• Donald Trump has been co-producer of the longest running reality TV show.
• Donald Trump performed in several WWE wrestling shows.
• Donald performed in Wrestlemania 23 which set attendance records and revenue records up til that time. 
• In his first candidacy for public office, Donald Trump received the most popular votes for the President of the United States out of a field of experienced and successful politicians. And in most cases, he achieved this with less money than any of his opponents.

Keeping in mind that 90% of start up businesses fail, Trump's record of enterprise is nothing short of amazing.

Donald Trump has enjoyed success in at least 11 very different enterprises: Professional football, Ice Skating rinks, Fragrance, Ice, Steaks, Wines, Model management, Airline, blenders, Men's wear, Bicycle races, world class beauty contests, and many others. In some of these, such as model management, his firm has risen to the top of that particular industry.

• There are 31 buildings that bear his name.
• The largest private real estate development in New York is Trump Riverside. Drive down the Henry Hudson Blvd. - you can't miss them.
• There are at least 12 Trump Towers
• There are at least 6 Trump Plazas.
• There are at least 11 Trump Golf Course developments 
• And much, much, more in real estate.
• Trump Entertainment, casinos and resorts was recently sold to Carl Ichan.
• Donald Trump's personal managing of the Wollman Ice Skating Rink project in the early 1980's is the quintessential case study for MBA students in Wharton, Harvard, and other business schools. His performance there was phenomenal. 
• Donald Trump's privately held businesses have employed more than 200,000 people.
• In the casino business in Atlantic City, Trump had to do business with known mobsters - and he stayed "clean" and alive.
• Aside from his personal investments, Donald Trump has never been a Wall Street "player".

The Political Trump:

about 1967 - 1987 - Democrat (he was a supporter of Ronald Reagan)

1987 - 1999 - Republican

1999 - 2001 - Reform Party (he supported Ross Perot)

2001 - 2009 - Democrat

2009 - 2011 - Republican

2011 - 2012 - Independent

2012 - Present - Republican

Donald Trump was openly supportive of Mitt Romney's candidacy.

Donald Trump does not seem to hold political party organizations in high regard.

For the most part, his political involvement has been for practical reasons.

Donald Trump does not appear to be held to political ideology.

 Some of my take aways:

• Trump has an extraordinarily energetic central nervous system much like Teddy Roosevelt but more targeted to industry and enterprise.
• Trump's presidency will be very energetic, transparent, and communicative.
• Trump will be a very hard working President.
• His interaction with his older brother (who everybody loved) tells me that he thinks that everybody is like him - or wants to be - or should be.
• His relationship with his older brother was a hard lesson in tolerance for him.
• Trump is the Babe Ruth of career achievements. 
• He is dumb like a fox. When you think he just said something stupid - he didn't. It's just that you were not his target audience.
• Trump knows the people - the folk.
• His son, Donald Jr. is right. Trump is a "Blue Collar Billionaire".
• More than anything, his TV show, The Apprentice, was his passion. He wants all Americans to have confidence (like he does) to venture.
• Donald Trump is attracted to and marries smart, high achieving women.
• The highest levels of a Trump Administration is certain to have many women - and they will be bright and assertive.
• Donald Trump's children are very important to him. And it shows.

PS.  Yet, we know nothing of our current president with 2 terms in office.  ??????
 

Plan on voting in the General Election?

Dereliction of Duty Mar 26, 2016, at 10:r Worth reading if you plan on voting in the General Election. Colonel Phil "Hands" Handley is credited with the highest speed air-to-air gun kill in the history of aerial combat. He flew operationally for all but 11 months of a 26-year career, in aircraft such as the F-86 Sabre, F-15 Eagle, and the C-130A Hercules. Additionally, he flew 275 combat missions during two tours in Southeast Asia in the F- 4D and F-4E. His awards include 21 Air Medals, 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and the Silver Star. Here is what Col. Handley wrote in response to Panetta and Dempsey's claims there was no time to send help to Benghazi . ------------------------------ Betrayal in Benghazi     Phil "Hands" Handley Colonel, USAF (Ret.) The combat code of the US Military is that we don't abandon our dead or wounded on the battlefield. In US Air Force lingo, fighter pilots don't run off and leave their wingmen. If one of our own is shot down, still alive and not yet in enemy captivity, we will either come to get him or die trying. Among America’s fighting forces, the calm, sure knowledge that such an irrevocable bond exists is priceless. Along with individual faith and personal grit, it is a sacred trust that has often sustained hope in the face of terribly long odds. The disgraceful abandonment of our Ambassador and those brave ex-SEALs who fought to their deaths to save others in that compound is nothing short of dereliction-of-duty. Additionally, the patently absurd cover-up scenario that was fabricated in the aftermath was an outright lie in an attempt to shield the President and the Secretary of State from responsibility. It has been over three years since the attack on our compound in  Benghazi. The White House strategy, with the aid of a "lap dog" press has been to run out the clock before the truth is forthcoming. The testimonies of the three "whistle blowers" have reopened the subject and hopefully will lead to exposure and disgrace of those responsible for this embarrassing debacle. It would appear that the most recent firewall which the Administration is counting on is the contention "that there were simply no military assets that could be  brought to bear in time to make a difference" mainly due to the unavailability of tanker support for fighter aircraft. This is simply BS, regardless how many supposed "experts" the Administration trot out to make such an assertion. The bottom line is that even if the closest asset capable of response was half-way around the world, you don't just sit on your penguin ass and do nothing. The fact is that the closest asset was not half-way around the world, but as near as Aviano Air Base , Italy where two squadrons of F-16Cs are based. Consider the following scenario (all times Benghazi local): When Hicks in Tripoli receives a call at 9:40 PM from Ambassador Stevens informing him “Greg, we are under attack!" (his last words), Hicks immediately notifies all agencies and prepares for the immediate initiation of an existing Emergency Response Plan." At AFRICON, General Carter Ham attempts to mount a rescue effort, but is told to"stand down". By 10:30 PM an unarmed drone is overhead the compound and streaming live feed to various "Command and Control Agencies" so everyone watching that feed knew damn well what was going on. At 11:30 PM Doherty and five others leave Tripoli, arriving in Benghazi at 1:30 AM on Wednesday morning, where they hold off the attacking mob from the roof of the compound until they are killed by a direct mortar hit at 4:00 AM. So nothing could have been done, eh? Nonsense. If one assumes that tanker support really "was not available" what about this: When at 10:00 PMAFRICON alerts the 31st TFW Command Post in Aviano Air Base, Italy of the attack, the Wing Commander orders preparation for the launch of two F-16s and advises the Command Post at NAS Sigonella to prepare for hot pit refueling and quick turn of the jets. By 11:30 PM, two F-16Cs with drop tanks and each armed with five hundred 20 MM rounds are airborne. Flying at 0.92 Mach they will cover the 522 nautical miles directly to NAS Sigonella in 1.08 hours. While in-route, the flight lead is informed of the tactical situation, rules of engagement, and radio frequencies to use. The jets depart Sigonella at 1:10 AM with full fuel load and cover the 377 nautical miles directly to Benghazi in 0.8 hours, arriving at1:50 AM which would be 20 minutes after the arrival of Woods, Doherty and their team. Providing that the two F-16s initial pass over the mob, in full afterburner at 200 feet and 550 knots did not stop the attack in its tracks, a few well- placed strafing runs on targets of opportunity would assuredly do the trick. Were the F-16s fuel state insufficient to return to Sigonelli after jettisoning their external drop tanks, they could easily do so at Tripoli International Airport, only one-half hour away. As for those hand- wringing naysayers who would worry about IFR clearances, border crossing authority, collateral damage, landing rights, political correctness and dozens of other reasons not to act -- screw them. It is time our "leadership" get its priorities straight and put America's interests first. The end result would be that Woods and Doherty would be alive. Dozens in the attacking rabble would be rendezvousing with "72 virgins" and a clear message would have been sent to the next worthless POS terrorist contemplating an attack on Americans that it is not really a good idea to "tug" on Superman's cape. Of course, all this depends upon a Commander In Chief more concerned with saving the lives of those he put in harm's way than getting his crew rested for a campaign fund raising event in Las Vegas the next day. It also depends upon a Secretary of State who actually understood "What difference did it make?", and a Secretary of Defense who was watching the feed from the drone and understood what the attack consisted of instead of making an immediate response that "One of the military tenants is that you don't commit assets until you fully understand the tactical situation." Ultimately it comes down to the question of who gave that order to stand down? Whoever that coward turns out to be should be exposed, removed from office, and face criminal charges for dereliction of duty. The combat forces of the United States of America deserve leadership that really does "have their back" when the chips are down. FOR THOSE OF YOU HAVE ACTUALLY TAKEN THE TIME TO READ THIS, DO ONE THING FOR ME AND FORWARD IT!! TO AVOID THIS HAPPENING AGAIN, WHOEVER GAVE THE "STAND DOWN" ORDER NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED!