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DONALD

TRUMP
BRAND OF THE YEAR

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epublican presidential nominee Donald Trump
is a self-made billionaire and this year’s winner
of our 2016 “Brand of the Year” award. Now an
iconic legend, Trump made his original fortune in
the real estate market of New York and, for the most part,
has never looked back. Already a well-known real estate
mogul and businessman, Trump became a household
name as a reality TV star on ‘The Apprentice’.
Born in 1946 in Queens, New York, our ‘Brand of the
Year’ winner got his start in the real estate business when
he was only twenty-five years old, with an ambitious business strategy of developing large scale projects in Manhattan. In time, Trump was blazing a trail within top real
estate development circles as a ‘mover and shaker’. Over
the next 40 years, Trump would both ride the back of
New York’s wildest ‘bull’ markets and be mauled under
the weight of one of the city’s greatest ‘bear’ markets as
it came roaring back down. But, ‘the Donald’ has always
been able to persevere, demonstrating what the fictitious
persona of U. S. Marshall, “Rooster” J. Cogburn himself
might have referred to as ‘true grit’. The pinnacle of all
attestations to Trump’s personal achievements, came on
July 19, 2016, when Donald John Trump was declared the
Republican Presidential Candidate, in one of the most divisive Republican party conventions in history.

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Early Life
Donald Trump was the fourth of five children born to
Frederick and Mary Trump. Frederick, a builder and
real estate developer, was a role model for the young
Trump. Donald was a high energy young lad with an assertive A-type personality from the start, prompting his
parents to send him off to military school when he was
13 years old in order to acquire some discipline. The
academy served Donald well. Earning good grades and
making numerous friends, Trump had positioned himself as a born leader by the time he graduated in 1964.
He then entered Fordham University, but transferred in
his junior year to University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton
School of Finance, earning an Economics degree in 1968.
Real Estate Tycoon
Following in his father’s footsteps, Donald embarked on
a career in real estate development by working in the
family business. Proposing a business strategy riskier
than that of his father, he convinced the elder Trump to
finance the expansion of the family’s current holdings
by leveraging the equity within their existing real estate
portfolio. It was an aggressive but profitable move, and
in 1971, Donald Trump t