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The latest to join the race for the 2016 Presidency is reality TV host and business mogul, Donald
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Trump. After talking about running multiple times since 1987, Trump has officially joined his esteemed Republican rivals.
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But besides his unconventional hairstyle and demanding
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to see Obama’s birth certificate in 2011, what do we really know about the 69-year-old
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New Yorker? Who exactly is Donald Trump?
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Well, Trump is first and foremost a controversially successful business magnate and investor.
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His start came as a result of his father, Fred Trump, who had already amassed a real
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estate fortune before his death. Donald Trump has controlled his father’s company since
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the 1970s. He has primarily invested in hotel and casino real estate, and filed for business
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bankruptcy four times. He is also very well known for naming business holdings after himself,
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including buildings, video games, buffets, magazines, clothing lines, and many others.
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Trump also owns a large number of golf courses and beauty pageants.
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He has stated that his net worth is around $9 billion, making him the wealthiest candidate in the running, although
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Forbes says it is closer to $4 billion. His net worth has been disputed in the past: a
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2005 Deutsche (DOY-chuh) Bank assessment pegged his worth at around
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only $800 million at the time.
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Although Trump has never held public office, he has been very outspoken concerning his political views.
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His primary platform focuses on increasing US jobs, and building a wall
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along the Mexican border, which Mexico would pay for. In 1999, in order to wipe out the
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national debt, he proposed enacting a one-time 14% tax on Americans with over $10 million dollars.
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On social issues he is fairly right leaning. After years of being pro-choice, in 2011 he
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switched to being pro-life. Additionally, he is against same-sex marriage. Although
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he supported universal healthcare in 2000, he vehemently opposes Obamacare, calling it
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a “trillion-ton weight” on the economy. Despite claiming to have never indulged in
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any drugs or alcohol, he supports full drug legalization as a method of increasing tax revenue for education.
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revenue for education.
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His foreign policy worldview is largely oil-based, and believes we are drilling too slowly for
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what he calls America’s “lifeblood”. He is also extremely critical of China’s
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influence in the United States, and has called for a 25% tax on imports in order to maintain
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US jobs. However, many of his self-named products are made in China.
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It should be clear that as a businessman and a showman, Trump’s politics tend to be financially
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influenced rather than ideological. Although Trump has withdrawn from his reality TV show
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in order to legally be a candidate, there’s no question that he will continue entertaining
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viewers with his fiery rhetoric over the coming months.
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Money and politics go hand in hand in the United States, but billionaires on both sides
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of the aisle actually share some common interests. To learn more about what they’re really
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pushing for, check out our full video here. Thanks for watching, and please consider subscribing
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