Article By: Jazlyn Rodriguez, edited by Joel Hernandez
Staff Member: Grade 8
BIOGRAPHY -- DONALD TRUMP:
Donald John Trump - 2016 President-elect of the United States - was
born on June 14, 1946 in New York City, and is currently seventy-years-old.
Being born and raised in the Queens borough of New York City, the
President-elect attended “The Kew-Forest School,” however, left the school
at age 13 and was then enrolled in the New York Military Academy. The
academy was located in Cornwall, New York, and the President-elect
completed eighth grade and high school there. After his years in the
academy, the President-elect later fulfilled his college education at the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,
graduating in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.
During the President-elect’s career, several office towers, hotels, casinos, and
golf courses have been built, improved and upgraded, or managed by Mr.
Trump. He has owned beauty pageants, made cameo appearances in films
and television series, hosted and co-produced, and as of 2016, been listed as
the 324th wealthiest person in the world by Forbes. All of the
President-elect’s choices, actions and opportunities allowed him the chance
to run for the 2016 presidential election for, and representing, the Republican
Party. Despite losing the People’s vote, he won the Electoral college by 36
votes.
Art by Joel Hernandez, Grade 8