Donald Trump Jr.
Donald John Trump Jr. is the eldest child of US president Donald Trump and businesswoman Ivana Trump. He currently serves as a trustee and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, running the company alongside his younger brother Eric. Trump has been active politically, serving in his father’s presidential campaign. He had a meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information about the campaign of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. He has promoted conspiracy theories and false information.
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Donald John Trump Jr. is an American businessman and former reality television personality. He is the eldest child of US president Donald Trump and businesswoman Ivana Trump. He currently serves as a trustee and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, running the company alongside his younger brother Eric. Trump has been active politically, serving in his father’s presidential campaign. He had a meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information about the campaign of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. He has promoted conspiracy theories and false information. On November 5, 2020, he advocated \”total war\” instead of completion of vote counting in the 2020 United States elections. Trump’s parents divorced when he was 13 years old. He was estranged from his father for one year after the divorce, furious at his actions which broke up the family. Trump is a grandson of Fred Trump and great-grandson of Elizabeth Trump, who founded what became the Trump organization. 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 dad’s last season in 2015. In 2006 he helped launch Trump Mortgage, which collapsed less than a year later. In 2010 he became a spokesperson for Cambridge Who’s Who, a public relations firm that had received hundreds of complaints filed with the Better Business Bureau. In 2012 he was criticized for accusing Hunter Biden of nepotism and leveraging his father as a means to get financial benefits. In 2013 he said, “When you’re the father and your son’s entire career is dependent on that, they own you.’’ He has supervised building projects, which included 40 Wall Street, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and Trump Park Avenue, and worked as a bartender for a year, before returning to join theTrump Organization in New York.
In January 11, 2017, Trump’s father announced that he and his brother Eric would oversee a trust that included Trump Organization’s assets while his father was president, in order to avert a conflict of interest. The Washington Post reported that after Trump became president, his sons have been busy selling assets to foreign individuals, expanding or adding existing deals and investments in U.S. properties. The New York Times characterized Trump Jr as a central member of his campaign, calling him a ‘close confidant’ and a “close friend’ of the president’ . In February 2018, advertisements in Indian newspapers promoted a deal whereby anyone purchased. apartments in Gurgaon before February 20 would be invited to have a dinner with Trump and his sons. The ads were criticized by corruption watchdogs as unethical. Trump Jr was widely ridiculed for these remarks by Trevor Noah and others. He also has two half-siblings, Tiffany, from father’s marriage to Marla Maples, and Barron, from hisFather’s current marriage to Melania Trump. Through his father, Trump Jr is a grandchild of Fred and Elizabeth Trump. As a boy, he found a role model in his maternal grandfather, Miloš Zelníček, who had a home near Prague, where he spent summers camping, fishing, hunting and learning the Czech language.
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