Donald Trump Jr Biography – Donald Trump Jr was born on December 31, 1977. He is often called Don Jr. He is an American businessman and he is the eldest child of United States President Donald Trump and his wife Ivana Trump.
He serves as a trustee and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, running the company alongside his younger brother Eric.
During his father’s first presidency, the brothers continued to do deals and investments in foreign countries, as well as collect payments in their US properties from foreign governments, despite a pledge that they would not do so.
He served as a boardroom judge on the reality TV show featuring his father, The Apprentice. He also authored Triggered in 2019 and Liberal Privilege in 2020.
Trump Jr was active in his father’s 2016 presidential campaign, he cooperated with Russia in their interference in the 2016 United States election and had a meeting with a Russian lawyer.
Donald Trump Jr Early Life
Donald Trump Jr was born December 31, 19977, in Manhattan, New York City, to Ivana and Donald Trump. He has two younger siblings, Ivanka and Eric. He also has half-siblings, Tiffany, from his father’s marriage to Marla Maples, and Barron, from his current marriage to Melania Trump.
Through his father, he is the grandson of Fred Trump and great-grandson of Elizabeth Christ Trump, who founded what became the Trump organization.
As a young boy, he found a role model in his maternal grandfather, Milos Zelnicek, who had a home near Prague, where he spent summers camping, fishing, hunting, and learning the Czech language.
Donald Trump Jr Education
Donald Trump Jr was educated at Buckley School and the Hill School, a college preparatory boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, followed by the University of Pennsylvania’s (Penn) Wharton School where he graduated in 2000 with a B.S. in Economics.
Donald Trump Jr Career
After he finished his education at Penn in 2000, Donald Trump Jr moved to Aspen, Colorado, where he hunted, fished, skied, lived in his truck, and worked as a bartender for a year returning to join the Trump organization in New York.
Still on Donald Trump Jr biography. Donald Trump Jr has supervised building projects, which include 40 Wall Street, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and Trump Park Avenue.
In 2010, he became a spokesperson and “executive director of global branding for Cambridge Who’s Who, a vanity publisher against who hundreds of complaints had already been filed with the Better Business Bureau.
He appeared as a guest adviser and judge on many episodes of his father’s reality television show The Apprentice, from season 5 in 2006 to his father’s last season in 2015.
Donald Trump Jr Organization
Donald Trump announced that Donald Trump Jr and his brother Eric would oversee a trust that included the Trump Organization’s assets while his father was president to avert a conflict of interest.
Donald Trump Jr is a high-level executive in his father’s business and continues to operate the promote the family business across the world during Trump’s presidency.
The Associated Press wrote of Donald Trump Jr remarks that he was showing no self-awareness that he, too has at least in part been successful because of a famous father.
According to The Washington Post fact checker, Trump Jr.’s assertion that he and his family members had gotten out of foreign business deals after Trump became president is false.
The Washington Post reported that after Trump became president, Trump’s sons have been busy selling assets to foreign individuals, expanding or adding onto their existing deals investments in foreign countries, and collecting payments in United States properties from foreign governments.
In February 2018, advertisements in Indian newspapers prompted a deal whereby anyone who purchased Trump Organization apartments in Gurgaon before February 20 would be invited to have a conversation and dinner with Trump Jr.
