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{{quote|''Make America Great Again''}}
'''Donald Trump'''
In [[The Seventies]], Trump inherited his real estate business from his father Fredrick (rechristening it "The Trump Organization", natch). Following a five-year apprenticeship under his dad, Donald relocated to New York City to begin his career in earnest. He went on to gather up Manhattan's most profitable properties like so many vacant ''[[Monopoly]]'' squares.
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From 2004 to 2015, Trump starred in ''[[The Apprentice]]'', his own reality TV series (created by [[Mark Burnett]], the brains behind ''[[Survivor]]'') on [[NBC]]<ref>Some of his children (Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump) were advisers to the show until 2015.</ref>. The show consists of a selection of candidates competing against each other for an open slot in one of Trump's companies. The program was wildly successful and remains one of the highest-rated reality shows to date. He has since been replaced with [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]].
In 2011, Trump briefly ran in the Republican presidential nomination primary for the 2012 election, seen by some as a ratings stunt. He was a proponent of the "[[Conspiracy Theorist|birther]]" theory, so his campaign was ended after the birther train was stopped for good by [[Barack Obama]] providing his long-form birth certificate. Despite this, Trump maintained that there were still "questions" about Obama's birth certificate until he dropping the issue
▲In 2011, Trump briefly ran in the Republican presidential nomination primary for the 2012 election, seen by some as a ratings stunt. He was a proponent of the "[[Conspiracy Theorist|birther]]" theory, so his campaign was ended after the birther train was stopped for good by [[Barack Obama]] providing his long-form birth certificate. Despite this, Trump maintained that there were still "questions" about Obama's birth certificate until he dropping the issue late in 2016 after congratulating himself on clearing up the issue.
In June 16, 2015, he again announced his candidacy for president, as a Republican. With his opposition to illegal immigration, and alleged "free-trade agreements" as well as non-interventionist views on foreign policy, among many other things, Trump quickly emerged as the front-runner for the Republican nomination, showing qualities that other candidates in his party lacked. His highly controversial remarks and unorthodox behavior during the campaign gave him a [[Hatedom]] and a [[:Category:Fandom|Fandom]] as massive as each other. It came to a point where Trump became the ''only'' major Republican candidate.<ref>May 2016 [https://twitter.com/Reince/status/727665447684820992 tweet] by Reince Priebus, Chairman of the Republican National Committee.</ref>
He faced [[Hillary Clinton]] in the 2016 general election. He campaigned on a platform promising renegotiating several "disastrous" international trade deals, stronger enforcement of immigration laws, reform of veterans' care, repeal and replacement of Obamacare, abolition of Common Core education standards, investments in the country's infrastructure, ending corruption in Washington D.C. and a simplified tax code with lower rates. His primary slogan was "Make America Great Again" with secondary slogans including "Build the Wall", "Drain the Swamp", and "He's With Me" (a jab at his opponent's main slogan "I'm With Her"). Originally predicted by the majority of the media polling to lose in a landslide (born of an incorrect assumption turnout demographics would equal that of the 2008 election), he would up winning several states in the "rust belt" previously thought Democrat strongholds such as Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Upon taking office he will be the oldest first term president and the ''only'' US president who has never held prior political office or military rank <ref>He joins [[William Howard Taft]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] on the list of never holding ''elected'' office or military rank, but Donald Trump was never appointed to any office either.</ref> and his wife will be the first foreign born First Lady.
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