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− | {{Quotation| “He was a pretty rough fellow when he was small,” recalled his father, who packed off his obstreperous teen-age son to the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson for his high school education. According to some of his peers in the industry, Donald Trump has not really changed much from those boyhood days. (''New York Times'', August 7, 1983)}} | + | All accounts seem to agree that Trump was an aggressive and violent child. Trump himself has written "I was a very assertive, aggressive kid" and has claimed he was almost expelled from school for punching his second-grade teacher in the face.<ref>{{Quotation|Donald Trump, the new president-elect of the United States, once said he punched a teacher in the face when he was in the second grade. So did he? Here's what he wrote in his 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal": “Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid. In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye. I punched my music teacher because I didn't think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled. I'm not proud of that, but it's clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a forceful way. The difference now is that I like to use my brain instead of my fists.” (''Washington Post'', November 13, 2016)}}</ref> Trump's father backed up his assessment, telling reporters that his son "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small."<ref>{{Quotation| “He was a pretty rough fellow when he was small,” recalled his father, who packed off his obstreperous teen-age son to the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson for his high school education. According to some of his peers in the industry, Donald Trump has not really changed much from those boyhood days. (''New York Times'', August 7, 1983)}}</ref> Trump's childhood neighbor has recounted an incident in which a young Trump was caught hurling rocks over the fence at a smaller child left unsupervised in a playpen.<ref>{{Quotation|Dennis Burnham was four years younger and lived around the corner from Donald. He inherited his own im-pression of his neighbor from his mother, who warned that he should "stay away from the Trumps." "Donald was known to be a bully, I was a little kid, and my parents didn't want me beaten up," said Burnham, 65, a business consultant in Texas. Once when she left Dennis in a playpen in a back yard adjoining the Trumps' property, Martha Burnham re-turned to find Donald throwing rocks at her son. "She saw Donald standing at the fence," Dennis Burnham said, "using the playpen for target practice." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)}}</ref> |
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===Fred C. Trump=== | ===Fred C. Trump=== |
Revision as of 13:28, 5 April 2017
Donald Trump is President of the United States. Trump holds the unfortunate distinction of winning the Presidency through the Electoral College despite a thumping loss of 2.9 million votes (a 2.1% margin).[1] So far, Trump has been consistently setting records as the most unpopular President in the history of polling.[2] But hey - if you like him... congrats. He's your president, and ours too.
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Childhood and Family
All accounts seem to agree that Trump was an aggressive and violent child. Trump himself has written "I was a very assertive, aggressive kid" and has claimed he was almost expelled from school for punching his second-grade teacher in the face.[3] Trump's father backed up his assessment, telling reporters that his son "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small."[4] Trump's childhood neighbor has recounted an incident in which a young Trump was caught hurling rocks over the fence at a smaller child left unsupervised in a playpen.[5]
Fred C. Trump
Mary MacLeod
Education
Grade School (Queens)
“ The third of four children, Trump attended grade school in Queens and was then sent to Cornwall for high school. (Washington Post, November 15, 1984) ”
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“More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history. The Democrat outpaced President-elect Donald Trump by almost 2.9 million votes, with 65,844,954 (48.2%) to his 62,979,879 (46.1%), according to revised and certified final election results from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (CNN, December 22, 2016”
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“Trump’s current rating is a low not just for Trump’s presidency so far, but also for this point in any recent presidency. We’re on day 69 of the Trump administration, and his net approval rating — -11.1 — is by far the lowest of any of the past 13 presidents at this point. (Five Thirty Eight, March 29, 2017)”- ↑
“Donald Trump, the new president-elect of the United States, once said he punched a teacher in the face when he was in the second grade. So did he? Here's what he wrote in his 1987 book, "The Art of the Deal": “Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid. In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye. I punched my music teacher because I didn't think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled. I'm not proud of that, but it's clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a forceful way. The difference now is that I like to use my brain instead of my fists.” (Washington Post, November 13, 2016)”- ↑
““He was a pretty rough fellow when he was small,” recalled his father, who packed off his obstreperous teen-age son to the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson for his high school education. According to some of his peers in the industry, Donald Trump has not really changed much from those boyhood days. (New York Times, August 7, 1983)”- ↑
“Dennis Burnham was four years younger and lived around the corner from Donald. He inherited his own im-pression of his neighbor from his mother, who warned that he should "stay away from the Trumps." "Donald was known to be a bully, I was a little kid, and my parents didn't want me beaten up," said Burnham, 65, a business consultant in Texas. Once when she left Dennis in a playpen in a back yard adjoining the Trumps' property, Martha Burnham re-turned to find Donald throwing rocks at her son. "She saw Donald standing at the fence," Dennis Burnham said, "using the playpen for target practice." (Washington Post, June 22, 2016)” - ↑