Donald Trump

Timeline

• June 14th, 1946
  • Born at Jamaica Hospital in Queens, New York, ^{(ABC News) (Business Insider)} and father being Fred Trump.^{(ABC News) (Business Insider)}
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• 1955
  • Graduated from his Sunday school at the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, New York.^{The Atlantic CNN New York Times Presbyterian Mission}
• 1959
  • He attended the New York Military Academy when he was 13 years old.^{Washington Post (Times Herald-Record, Washington Post) (Reuters, Bases)}
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      ^{(Times Herald-Record, Washington Post)}
• July 28th, 1964 – February 1st, 1972
  • He avoid multiple drafts for the Vietnam War and was deemed ineligible to serve.^{CBS News The Atlantic Business Insider (National Archives) (The Smoking Gun)}
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      ^{(The Smoking Gun)}
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      ^{(National Archives)}
• May 3rd, 1965
  • His niece Mary L. Trump was born,^{(People, Carlson)} who he would later have a bad relationship with.^{(Business Insider, Collman) (ABC News, Rubin, Katersky)}
• May 20th, 1968
  • Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelors on Science in Economics.^{(University of Pennsylvania, p. 21)}
• July 1st, 1987 – April 19th, 2012
  • Would change his voter registration a few times over the years.
    • July 1st, 1987
      • Registered as a Republican^{(Document Cloud)}
    • October 21st, 1999
      • Registered for the Independence Party^{(Document Cloud)}
    • August 6th, 2001
      • Registered as a Democrat^{(Document Cloud)}
    • September 15th, 2009
      • Registered as a Republican^{(Document Cloud)}
    • December 21st, 2011
      • Registered as no party^{(Document Cloud)}
    • April 19th, 2012
      • Registered as a Republican^{(Document Cloud)}
• November 1st, 1987
  • Publishes his book “The Art of the Deal,” where he mentions that he loves making deals, so much so that it’s his own personal form of art.^{(Trump: The Art of the Deal, p. 1)}
    • “I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks.”^{(Trump: The Art of the Deal, p. 1)}
• April 25h, 1988
  • On the Oprah Winfrey Show, he teased a potential presidential bid for presidency in 1988.^(OWN)
• October 7th, 1999
  • Announced he would campaign for the 2000 United States presidential election on October 7th, 1999,^{(CNN, AP News, Shumate)} for the Reform party and chose Oprah Winfrey,^{(New Straits Times, AP News)} saying “Oprah, I love Oprah. Oprah would always be my first choice” in a CNN interview.^{(CNN|LARRY KING LIVE)} Despite his attempts, he would later drop out of the race on February 14th, 2000.^{(Deseret News, Ringwood)}
• March 17, 2011
  • Would promote the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born within the United States, particularly in Kenya.^{(Schofield) (Politico, Marr) (CBS News, Madison)} If true, this would’ve disqualified Barack Obama from running as or being president.^{(U.S. Const., art. II, sec. 1, cl. 5)}
• November 6th, 2012
  • 10:33 p.m.: Claimed that Barack Obama lost the 2012 election because of a “sham.”^{(Twitter, @realDonaldTrump)} This would be the beginning of his attempts to undermine elections.
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• 2015
  • His net worth was somewhere from 3-9 billion dollars, at least from 2015.^{Politico Business Insider}
• June 16th, 2015
  • He would announce that he is running for president in the 2016 United States presidential election,^{(TIME, TIME Staff)}
    • “So ladies and gentlemen…I am officially running… for President of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again.”^{(TIME, TIME Staff)}
• October 26th, 2015
  • Would tell a story of how he got a “small loan of a million dollars” from his father to him start his business career which he supposedly repaid.^{(YouTube, @TODAY) (Politico, Gass)}
• November 3rd, 2016
  • He would beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election.^(FEC)
    • Blew up the Hillary Clinton e-mails scandal.^{source needed}
    • Official presidential portrait:
      
      ^{Library of Congress}
    • Launching the First Trump Administration.
• Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, threatened to sue Trump’s former high school, colleges, and the College Board if they released his academic records publicly.^{(AP News, Binkley)}
  • “When I say conman, I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores.”^{(AP News, Binkley|Cohen)}
• November 7th, 2020
  • Lost his presidency in the 2020 United States presidential election against Joe Biden.^(FEC)
  • He would later go on to claim he actually won the 2020 United States presidential election and only lost due to voter fraud.^{(C-SPAN) (YouTube, @PhilintheBlanksPodcast [42:17])}
• November 15th, 2022
  • He would announce that he is running for president again in the 2024 United States presidential election.^{(Fox News, Singman)}
• November 5th, 2024
  • Donald Trump would win a second term for President of the United States,^{source needed} becoming the second president in history to run two nonconsecutive terms.^{source needed}
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