Donald Trump Jr. facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Donald Trump Jr.
|
|
|---|---|
_(cropped).jpg)
Trump in 2024
|
|
| Born | December 31, 1977 Manhattan, New York, U.S.
|
| Other names | Don Junior |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BS) |
| Occupation |
|
| Known for | Executive in the Trump Organization Former boardroom judge on The Apprentice |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) |
Vanessa Haydon
(m. 2005; div. 2018) |
| Partner(s) | Kimberly Guilfoyle (2018–present; engaged 2020) |
| Children | 5 |
| Parent(s) | |
| Family | Trump family |
Donald John Trump Jr. (born December 31, 1977) is an American businessman, former television presenter, political activist, and author. He is the eldest child of Donald Trump and his first wife Ivana Trump.
Contents
Early life
Trump was born on December 31, 1977, in Manhattan, New York City, to Ivana and Donald Trump. He has two younger siblings, Ivanka and Eric. He also has two half siblings, Tiffany, from his father's marriage to Marla Maples, and Barron, from his father's current marriage to Melania Trump. Through his father, Trump is a grandson of Fred Trump and great-grandson of Elizabeth Christ Trump, who founded what became the Trump Organization. As a boy, Trump found a role model in his maternal grandfather, Miloš Zelníček, who had a home near Prague, where he spent summers camping, fishing, hunting and learning the Czech language.
Trump was educated at Buckley School and The Hill School, a college preparatory boarding school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, followed by the University of Pennsylvania's (Penn) Wharton School, where he graduated in 2000 with a B.S. in Economics.
Career
After graduating from Penn in 2000, Trump moved to Aspen, Colorado, where he hunted, fished, skied, lived in a truck, and worked as a bartender for a year, before returning to join the Trump Organization in New York. Trump has supervised building projects, which included 40 Wall Street, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and Trump Park Avenue, In 2006 he helped launch Trump Mortgage, which collapsed less than a year later. In 2010, he became a spokesperson and "executive director of global branding" for Cambridge Who's Who, a vanity publisher against whom hundreds of complaints had already been filed with the Better Business Bureau. He appeared as a guest adviser and "judge" on many episodes of his father's reality television show The Apprentice, from season 5 in 2006 to his father's last season in 2015.
Trump served as a trustee and executive vice president of The Trump Organization, running the company alongside his younger brother Eric. A ruling which was handed down on February 16, 2024 barred Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York, including the Trump Organization, for two years.
Trump was active in his father's 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. Following his father's defeat in 2021, Trump Jr. engaged in attempts to overturn the results. He spoke at the rally that led to the storming of the Capitol, where he threatened Trump's opponents that "we're coming for you.
In 2023, Trump launched a podcast, Triggered with Don Jr, on the platform Rumble.
Fraud investigation
On January 14, 2021, it became known that Trump Jr. is a person of interest in the criminal investigation into misuse of his father's inaugural funds in Washington D.C., and that prosecutors intend to interview him over his role in "grossly overpaying" for use of event space at the Trump Hotel in Washington for the 2017 inauguration.
Books
Trump Jr. published two books, Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us (2019), which became a New York Times best-seller, and Liberal Privilege: Joe Biden and the Democrats' Defense of the Indefensible (2020).
Personal life
Family
.jpg)
In 2003, Trump Jr. began dating model Vanessa Kay Haydon at his father's suggestion. The couple married on November 12, 2005, at his father's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida; the service was officiated by Trump Jr.'s aunt, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry. Haydon's grandfather was Danish jazz musician Kai Ewans. They have five children: daughter Kai Madison (b. May 2007), son Donald John III (b. February 2009), son Tristan Milos (b. October 2011), son Spencer Frederick (b. October 2012), and daughter Chloe Sophia (b. June 2014). The oldest daughter, Kai, is named after Kai's great-grandfather, Kai Ewans.
On March 15, 2018, it was announced that the couple had separated and she had filed for uncontested divorce in Manhattan Supreme Court. However, later it was revealed that the divorce was contested. On February 22, 2019, they announced that they settled their divorce at the end of 2018.
Since 2018, Trump Jr. has been dating Kimberly Guilfoyle. Guilfoyle had been friends with the Trump family for years. The two reportedly became engaged on December 31, 2020, though news of the engagement was not made public until January 2022. In December 2021, Trump Jr. switched his official residency from New York to Florida.
Hunting
Trump Jr. is an enthusiastic hunter. In February 2020 Trump agreed to go on a hunting trip in Alaska with the winner of a fundraising auction for the Safari Club International.
Images for kids
-
Trump Jr. speaks at the 2019 Teen Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA, 2019.
-
Trump Jr. with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy in 2023
-
Trump Jr. speaking in 2020
-
Trump Jr. in 2018
_(cropped).jpg)
See also
In Spanish: Donald Trump Jr. para niños
