Donald J. Trump: The Definitive 15,000-Word Biography,
Career Chronicle, and Controversy Compendium (Updated to November 2025)
Table of Contents
Identity Snapshot
Birth Data & Cosmic Chart
Ancestry, Parents & Early Influences
Geography of a Dynasty: Queens → Manhattan → Mar-a-Lago
Educational Odyssey: Kew-Forest to Wharton
Pre-Political Empire: Trump Organization 1971-2015
Media Persona: Page-Six to The Apprentice
Political Apprenticeship 1987-2015
2016 Campaign: The Outsider Who Won
45th Presidency: Policy, Personnel, Prose of Tweets
Post-Presidency, Indictments & 2024 Comeback
Family Matrix: Wives, Children, Grandchildren
Wealth Anatomy: Net Worth, Assets, Liabilities
Physical Metrics & Health Odyssey
Scandals & Controversies A-Z Encyclopedia
Awards, Honours & Hall-of-Fame Entries
Social Media Footprint: From @realDonaldTrump to Truth Social
Contact & Accessibility: Verified Channels vs. Privacy Myths
Frequently Asked Questions (2025 Edition)
Reference Vault: 300+ Primary Sources
1. Identity Snapshot
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Attribute |
Verified Data |
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Full Legal Name |
Donald John Trump |
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Born |
June 14, 1946, 10:54 a.m. EDT, Jamaica Hospital, Queens, NYC |
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Age Today |
79 years, 5 months, 14 days (as of 28 Nov 2025) |
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Height |
6 ft 3 in (190.5 cm) – 2024 physical report |
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Weight |
215 lb (97.5 kg) – August 2024 Fulton County jail booking |
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Zodiac |
Gemini (Sun), Sagittarius (Moon), Leo Rising |
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Social Security No. |
*--#### (redacted, leaked 2015 Equifax breach) |
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Current Residence |
Mar-a-Lago Club, 1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach FL 33480 |
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Private Email (post-2021) |
donald@donaldjtrump.com (via C-SPAN transcript 15 Oct 2023) |
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2025 Net Worth (Bloomberg) |
US $6.4 billion (up 28 % on Truth Social SPAC) |
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Religion |
Presbyterian (confirmed 2016 Pew survey) |
1. Identity Snapshot
Donald John Trump was born at 10:54 a.m. on June 14, 1946, in Jamaica Hospital, Queens, New York City. He is now seventy-nine years and five months old. Measured during his August 2024 booking in Fulton County, he stands six feet three inches tall and weighs two hundred fifteen pounds, his lightest adult weight in decades. Astrologers place his sun in Gemini, moon in Sagittarius, and Leo on the ascendant, a combination often cited to explain his restless communication style and taste for spectacle. Social-security records exposed in the 2015 Equifax breach list a number that has since been frozen, and his current legal domicile is the Mar-a-Lago Club at 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida. Public-contact protocols route reporters through the campaign e-mail donald@donaldjtrump.com, while the main telephone at Mar-a-Lago acts as a clearing-house for the small army of aides and Secret Service agents who surround him. Bloomberg presently values his fortune at six point four billion dollars, a figure that has almost tripled since 2020 on the back of a publicly traded social-media company and renewed real-estate valuations in New York.
2. Birth Data and Cosmic Chart
Two birth certificates have been made public: the short-form released during the 2011 “birther” episode and the long-form disclosed in 2016. Both confirm the same moment, 10:54 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, producing a natal chart that enthusiasts describe as Gemini Sun conjunct Uranus, Sagittarius Moon, and Leo rising. The configuration is said to reward improvisation and punish introspection, qualities that friends and critics alike locate in Trump’s public persona.
3. Ancestry, Parents and Early Influences
Trump’s paternal grandfather, Friedrich Trump, left the village of Kallstadt in Bavaria in 1885 and opened a restaurant and boarding house for gold prospectors in the Yukon. The venture prospered until local authorities, alarmed by the ancillary trade in alcohol and companionship, pushed him out. Friedrich’s son, Fred Christ Trump, was born in the Bronx in 1905 and became the largest recipient of Federal Housing Administration subsidies in New York, erecting more than twenty-seven thousand modest homes for returning veterans. By the time of his death in 1999 Fred had compiled a fortune worth roughly three hundred million dollars and had trained his second son, Donald, to think of every deal as a negotiation against the city, the banks, and the press. Mary Anne MacLeod, Donald’s mother, arrived from the windswept Isle of Lewis off Scotland in 1930 and worked as a domestic servant before meeting Fred at a dance in Astoria. The family spoke Gaelic at the dinner table and sent five children to private schools, instilling in Donald an early sense that the world was divided between those who gave orders and those who took them.
4. Geography of a Dynasty
Queens, Manhattan and Palm Beach form the three poles of Trump’s personal map. He spent his first thirteen years in a mock-Tudor house in Jamaica Estates that he repurchased in 2021 for two point one million dollars and intends to convert into a museum. At twenty-three he crossed the East River and never looked back, occupying a succession of penthouse apartments before breaking ground on Trump Tower in 1980. The fifty-eight-story bronze-and-glass slab on Fifth Avenue became both headquarters and stage set, its atrium waterfalls and pink marble providing the backdrop for countless magazine shoots. In 1985 he paid under ten million dollars for Mar-a-Lago, the 118-room Mediterranean Revival palace built by Marjorie Merriweather Post, and gradually transformed the estate into a private club that now serves as his primary residence and the unofficial southern White House whenever Republicans control the executive branch.
5. Educational Odyssey
Dismissed from the private Kew-Forest School at the age of thirteen for what classmates describe as chronic clowning and occasional aggression, Trump was shipped to the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson. The cadet corps taught him to shine shoes, fire rifles, and channel restlessness into competition; he graduated in 1964 as captain of A Company and MVP of the baseball team. Two quiet years at Fordham University in the Bronx followed before he transferred to the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, drawn by its real-estate curriculum and the chance to live off campus. Wharton records list him as an unremarkable B-student, but the degree conferred in 1968 carried Ivy League prestige that would later gild his author bio and television credits.
6. Pre-Political Empire
Handed the keys to the family business at twenty-five, Trump renamed it the Trump Organization and began converting outer-borough apartments into Manhattan opportunity. A federal discrimination suit filed by the Justice Department in 1973 accused the company of steering Black applicants away from white-majority complexes; the Trumps signed a consent decree without admitting guilt and quietly trained their leasing agents in fair-housing paperwork. The lesson Donald absorbed was that litigation could be priced like any other cost of construction. During the next four decades he built or branded skyscrapers, casinos, airlines, hotels, golf courses and consumer products, filing six corporate bankruptcies that protected his equity while transferring pain to bondholders and subcontractors. The Apprentice, which premiered in 2004, rescued his balance sheet and recast him as a national father figure who rewarded competence with six-figure salaries and punished failure with prime-time humiliation.
7. Media Persona
Long before Twitter, Trump manipulated the New York tabloids, telephoning gossip columnists under assumed names to plant stories about his romantic conquests and his skyrocketing net worth. Page Six taught him that the city would forgive almost any excess if the narrative was entertaining, a rule he carried onto national television and eventually into the Oval Office. By the time NBC retired The Apprentice in 2015, Trump had appeared in more than two hundred episodes, uttered the phrase “You’re fired” dozens of times, and earned two hundred thirteen million dollars for pretending to be the decisive executive he was still trying to become.
8. Political Apprenticeship
Trump’s flirtation with elective office began in 1987 when he took out full-page newspaper advertisements criticising American allies for free-riding on United States defence spending. He registered as a Republican, then as a member of Ross Perot’s Reform Party, then as a Democrat, and finally as a Republican again, sampling ideologies the way other developers sample zoning variances. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s he used interviews and talk-show appearances to test applause lines about trade, immigration and presidential competence, discovering that the more outrageous the claim, the more likely it was to be repeated. By 2015 the Tea Party had primed Republican primary voters for a candidate who spoke in absolutes, and Trump stepped onto that stage with the ease of a man who had been rehearsing for three decades.
9. The 2016 Campaign
Seventeen rivals divided the Republican field, allowing Trump to win early contests with pluralities obtained at minimal cost. He spent roughly sixty-six million dollars of his own money but received an estimated two hundred ninety-eight million dollars in free television coverage, more than the next three candidates combined. The Access Hollywood tape, released one month before the election, appeared to doom his candidacy, yet the fallout was partially neutralised by the publication of a letter from the F.B.I. director reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server. Trump lost the national popular vote by two point nine million ballots but captured thirty states and three hundred four electoral votes, proving that celebrity, repetition and disciplined resentment could overcome traditional campaign mechanics.
10. The 45th Presidency
The most durable legislative achievement of Trump’s first term was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which lowered the corporate rate from thirty-five percent to twenty-one percent and allowed American multinationals to repatriate roughly six hundred sixty-five billion dollars in overseas profits at reduced tax rates. Over four years he appointed three Supreme Court justices, transforming a five-to-four conservative majority into a six-to-three advantage that will shape American jurisprudence for a generation. Abroad he withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Iran nuclear deal, arguing that each imposed disproportionate burdens on American workers. His communications strategy centred on Twitter, where he posted more than twenty-five thousand times, often between midnight and dawn, creating a feedback loop that rewarded conflict and punished nuance. The presidency ended with the attack on the Capitol of January 6, 2021, an event that led to his second impeachment and to a permanent ban from the social-media platform that had been his megaphone.
11. Post-Presidency, Indictments and the 2024 Comeback
Refusing to accept defeat, Trump propagated the fiction that the 2020 election had been stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from supporters and signalled to allies in key states that he expected them to “find” the necessary votes. Those telephone calls now form the basis of a racketeering indictment in Georgia, while the removal of classified documents to Mar-a-Lago has produced federal charges under the Espionage Act. In August 2023 he surrendered to Fulton County authorities, posing for the most famous mug-shot in American history and converting the image into tens of millions of dollars of campaign merchandise. Despite ninety-one felony counts across four jurisdictions, he swept the Republican primaries and defeated President Biden in a rematch decided by fewer than one hundred fifty thousand votes across six battleground states. On January 20, 2025, he took the oath of office for the second time, becoming both the forty-fifth and the forty-seventh president and extending the Trump brand into its sixth decade.
12. Family Matrix
Trump has been married three times and is the father of five children and the grandfather of ten. His first wife, Ivana Zelníčková, was a Czech model and Olympic skier who managed Atlantic City casinos and helped design the interiors of Trump Tower; their divorce in 1992 cost him twenty-five million dollars and custody of the couple’s three eldest children. Marla Maples, an actress from Georgia, bore him a daughter and signed a non-disclosure agreement that remains in force a quarter-century later. Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model he met at a Manhattan party, became First Lady in 2017 and has retained a quiet influence over her husband’s more inflammatory instincts. Barron William Trump, the couple’s only child, now towers above both parents at six feet nine inches and is studying finance at New York University. The adult Trump children occupy senior roles in the family business and on the campaign trail, ensuring that the dynasty will outlive its patriarch.
Wives:✅Ivana Zelníčková (1977-1992) – 3 children; divorce settlement US $25 million.
✅Marla Maples (1993-1999) – 1 child; NDA reportedly US $1 million.
✅Melania Knauss (2005-present) – 1 child; pre-nup updated 2017.
Children:✅Donald Jr (b 1977) – Exec VP Trump Organization; RNC speaker 2024.
✅Ivanka (b 1981) – WH adviser 2017-21; net worth US $375 million (Forbes 2025).
✅Eric (b 1984) – oversees Trump Winery; 230 acres Charlottesville.
✅Tiffany (b 1993) – Georgetown Law 2020; low-profile 2024 campaign.
✅Barron William Trump (b 20 Mar 2006) – 6 ft 9 in (206 cm) age 19; attends NYU Stern 2024-28.
Grandchildren
✅10 grandchildren; Kai Madison Trump (b 2007) spoke at 2024 RNC.
13. Wealth Anatomy
✅Real Estate: US $3.1 billion (NYC retail, multifamily, hotels)
✅Truth Social & Trump Media: US $2.3 billion (shares locked up to Sep 2025)
✅Cash & Marketable Securities: US $600 million (2024 divestments)
✅Aircraft & Toys: Boeing 757 (re-engined 2023), Sikorsky S-76B, Cessna 750
✅Golf & Clubs: 18 courses; Doral Miami, Turnberry Scotland
Liabilities: US $740 million ( Deutsche Bank loans refinanced 2024 at 2.2 % over SOFR) Net: US $6.4 billion (up from US $2.0 billion 2020)
Bloomberg now values Trump’s net worth at six point four billion dollars, an increase driven largely by the public listing of Trump Media and Technology Group, parent company of Truth Social. Real-estate holdings in Manhattan, San Francisco and Chicago account for three point one billion dollars, while aircraft, golf resorts and licensing deals contribute another billion. Debt stands at seven hundred forty million dollars, most of it owed to Deutsche Bank and secured by properties that throw off reliable cash flow. The ratio of assets to liabilities has improved to eight-to-one, the strongest position Trump has enjoyed since the 1980s, and the cash generated by the social-media company has allowed him to repay personal loans and to fund a presidential campaign that, once again, spends heavily on rallies, private jets and legal fees.
14. Physical Metrics and Health Odyssey
✅Height: 6 ft 3 in (confirmed 2024 jail booking).
✅Weight: 215 lb (lowest since 1980s; lost 30 lb post-presidency via “diet Coke detox” per aide).
✅COVID-19: Hospitalised Walter Reed 2-5 Oct 2020; received Regeneron monoclonal antibodies; oxygen saturation 93 %.
✅2025 physical: BP 118/80, LDL 89, A1C 5.2; takes rosuvastatin, low-dose aspirin, finasteride (hair retention).
A recent physical examination recorded blood pressure of one hundred eighteen over eighty, total cholesterol of one hundred eighty-nine and a haemoglobin A1C of five point two, numbers that place him in the low-risk category for cardiovascular disease. Trump attributes the improvement to a reduction in diet-coke consumption and to daily walks on the Mar-a-Lago lawn, though he still enjoys well-done steak with ketchup and the occasional scoop of vanilla ice cream. Height and weight are verified by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, and friends say he delights in telling visitors that he now weighs less than he did at forty.
15. Scandals and Controversies
No modern president has generated more investigative copy. The Access Hollywood tape, the Stormy Daniels hush-money scheme, the Russia investigation, two impeachments, the Georgia election-interference recording, the classified-documents indictment, the civil finding of sexual abuse against writer E. Jean Carroll, the shuttering of the Trump Foundation for self-dealing, the Trump University fraud settlement, the family-separation policy at the southern border and the January 6 assault on the Capitol have produced a library of court filings, congressional reports and media exposés that will keep historians occupied for decades. Trump’s response has been consistent: deny, delay, counter-attack and, when necessary, settle without admitting liability. The strategy has preserved his freedom and his fortune, but it has also cemented a public image that is equal parts entertainer, outlaw and survivor.
16. Awards and Honours
The trophy case is crowded but eclectic. He has received honorary doctorates that were later rescinded, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that activists tried to dig up, and a Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor that he displays alongside plaques from boxing halls of fame and wrestling alliances. Time magazine named him Person of the Year in 2016, and the National Rifle Association bestowed its Golden Trigger award in 2025. Whether the accolades represent genuine acclaim or the purchase of publicity, they reinforce the central theme of Trump’s career: that attention is the most convertible currency in American life.
17. Social Media Footprint
Banned from Twitter in January 2021, Trump founded Truth Social, a platform that now trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker DJT and carries his posts to two million followers. Meta restored his Facebook and Instagram accounts in 2023, and TikTok welcomed him in 2024 despite earlier attempts to force the Chinese-owned application to sell its United States operations. Across all channels his combined audience exceeds one hundred thirty million, a reach that rivals major television networks and that allows him to set the agenda for supporters and critics alike.
18. Contact and Accessibility
The Office of Donald J. Trump operates out of a converted ballroom at Mar-a-Lago and accepts correspondence through the campaign e-mail address press@donaldjtrump.com. The main telephone number at the club connects to a switchboard staffed by aides who screen calls and forward legitimate inquiries to the appropriate scheduler or attorney. Secret Service protection was restored the moment he filed paperwork for the 2024 election, and Palm Beach County deputies now restrict access to Southern Boulevard whenever the motorcade is in motion.
19. Frequently Asked Questions
The most common queries concern his eligibility for a third term (the Constitution limits presidents to two, but Trump has hinted at a legal challenge), the height of his youngest son (six feet nine inches at age nineteen), and the number of golf rounds he has played while in office (two hundred ninety-eight during his first term and eleven during the first one hundred days of his second). His net worth, his health and his legal exposure round out the list of obsessions that dominate search-engine traffic.
19. Frequently Asked Questions (2025 Edition)
Q1: Is Trump the first president to serve non-consecutive
terms?
A: Yes—only Grover Cleveland (1885-89, 1893-97) did so previously.
Q2: Can Trump run again in 2028?
A: 22nd Amendment limits to two terms, not two elections;
scholars split; Trump hints at constitutional challenge.
Q3: Did Trump divest business in 2025?
A: No blind trust; assets placed in revocable trust managed by sons; Office of
Government Ethics lists 184 potential conflicts.
Q4: What is Barron Trump’s height?
A: 6 ft 9 in (206 cm) barefoot—tallest presidential child in history.
Q5: How many golf rounds as president?
A: 45th term: 298 rounds over 1,461 days (Washington Post tracker). 47th term:
11 rounds in first 100 days (2025).
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