- Donald is the Chairman and CEO of the Donald Trump Organization, a US-based real-estate developer.
- Donald's extravagant lifestyle and outspoken manner have made him a celebrity for years, a status amplified by the success of his NBC reality show, The Apprentice (where he serves as host and executive producer).
- Donald was the fourth of five children of Fred Donald, a wealthy real estate developer based in New York City.
- Donald was strongly influenced by his father in his eventual goals to make a career in real estate development./>Donald started with the renovation of the Commodore Hotel into the Grand Hyatt with the Pritzker family, he continued with Donald Tower in New York City and several other residential projects.
- Donald would later expand into the airline industry (buying the Eastern Shuttle routes), and Atlantic City casino business, including buying the Taj Mahal Casino from the Crosby family, then taking it nto bankruptcy.
- Much of the news about Donald in the early 1990s involved his much publicized financial problems, creditor-led bailout, extramarital affair with Marla Maples, and the resulting divorce from his first wife, Ivana Trump.
The late 1990s saw a resurgence in his financial situation and fame.
- In 2001, he completed Donald World Tower, a 72-story residential tower across from the United Nations.
- Donald currently owns several million square feet of prime Manhattan real estate, and remains a major figure in the field of real estate in the United States.
- In 2003, Donald became the executive producer and host of the NBC reality show, The Apprentice, in which a group of competitors battled for a high-level management job in one of Donald's commercial enterprises.
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