- I think I'm pretty outspoken and that's not probably
a good thing in terms of a politician but it's a good thing
if you ever got elected, you can really do a job.
- [Julianne] That's Donald Trump.
Eric Trump's father,
and also the 45th president of the United States.
Long before Donald enjoyed the sweet taste of gold
he preferred the silver spoon he was born with.
We all know that past behavior
is a greatest indicator of future success.
With that in mind, let's take a look.
Who really is Donald Trump?
I'm Julianne Moore.
And this is the story of the COVID patient
in charge of America's nuclear arsenal.
Donald John Trump made an excellent career move in 1946
being born to a very wealthy family in Queens, New York.
He grew up in a twenty-three room, nine bathroom
white columned mansion, in an exclusive affluent
nearly all white neighborhood.
Friends who came over would be greeted by the maid who would
offer a platter of finger sandwiches with the crust cut off.
It wouldn't take long for Donald to reject it all.
All his father, Fred, the son of German
immigrant Frederick Drumpf was a
super wealthy New York real estate mogul.
The tough and hard driving
Fred Trump achieved multimillionaire status
by becoming one of the largest recipients of cheap
US government backed building loans in the 1940s.
Donald's mother Mary was a poor immigrant from Scotland.
The two met at a party in Queens and married in 1936.
They had five children,
Donald being the second youngest of the bunch.
When Donald was two and a half years old
his mother became seriously ill, effectively abandoning him
during a critical time in his childhood development.
Thanks to a land trust set up by his father
Donald was literally a landlord at three years old,
and he was making the equivalent today
of $200,000 annually from his dad's empire,
which is more than most three year olds make.
By the time he was eight years old
he was a millionaire,
meaning he could pay the babysitter himself.
Shortly after Donald turned 13
the family sent him upstate to a military academy.
It would be the closest he'd get to serving in the military.
By the time he was 17, his father gave him part ownership
of a 52 unit apartment building.
And then he was off to college.
He started at Fordham University and then two years
in transferred to the elite Wharton School
undergrad program at the university of Pennsylvania.
According to Donald's niece Mary
Donald allegedly paid someone to take the SAT on his behalf,
achieving a high yet fraudulent score,
which he used to gain admittance to Wharton.
At the time Donald's brother Fred Jr
had a buddy named James Nolan who worked
in the admissions office at U Penn.
Fred Jr asked Nolan to interview Donald
as a candidate for admission.
Years later in an interview, Nolan recalled the encounter.
"I certainly was not struck by any sense
"that I'm sitting before a genius."
Yet it appears Donnie was accepted.
U Penn awarded him a BS on May 20th, 1968.
Trump claimed the school was the hardest to get into
the best school in the world.
It's unclear how Donald performed at the school
because Trump's attorney Michael Cohen was allegedly ordered
to hide boss's school transcripts.
So it's safe to say he's probably super proud of them.
- 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.
- [Julianne] Well in college, Trump fought really
hard to avoid the Vietnam War.
He obtained four student draft deferments
even though he was fit and eligible for military service.
After graduating from U Penn,
he was eligible for the draft again.
This time he received a medical deferment
for alleged bone spurs.
- Numerous because of, because of college.
And I had a foot thing and I had deferment for that.
- [Julianne] In 1971 at the tender age of 25,
Trump was named president
of his father's real estate company.
He renamed it The Trump organization.
It was around this time he received
a super tiny sum of not much money at all.
- My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.
- [Julianne] All in all Donald received the equivalent today
a 413 million from his dad's real estate empire.
After fattening his wallet he was seemingly
looking to settle down.
In 1977, Donald married Czech model Ivana Zelnickova.
They had three children together, Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric
- It along very well and there's not a lot of disagreement
because ultimately Ivana does exactly as I tell her to do.
- [Julianne] While his marriage was going extremely well,
his new gig as president of the real estate company wasn't.
Began making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
The front page of the October 16th, 1973
New York Times read,
"Major landlord accused of anti-black bias in city."
Of Donald's 14,000 apartments in 39 different buildings
the tenants were predominantly white.
The department of justice charged Donald and his father
with discriminating against
Black people in apartment rentals,
violating the fair housing act of 1968.
So who tipped the DOJ off?
Black activists would apply for an advertised vacancy
in a Trump building only to be told nothing was available.
Then their white counterparts tried the same thing
and they were met with open arms and vacancies.
An application filed by a black apartment seeker would
be marked by a Trump employee as C for colored.
A former Trump rental agent spoke to NBC
about how he was ordered to handle the situation
if a Black person applied
- Fred Trump came into my office with his son
Donald at his side.
I asked him what I should do
with the application of Miss Brown.
He told me at that time to take the application
and put it in the desk drawer
as he does not rent to people of color,
utilizing the N word.
And Donald shook his head agreeing with his father
- [Julianne] Caught racist and red-handed
they went on the attack.
Donald belong with Roy Cohn, famed McCarthyist lawyer
and power broker counter sued the Department of Justice
for a hundred million dollars in damages.
But this counter suit was tossed out by the judge.
In 1975 Donald and his father settled the original case.
They were ordered to study the Fair Housing Act
and not to discriminate at their properties in the future.
Additionally, they were ordered to work
with the New York Urban League to identify new tenants
- If I was starting off today I would love to be
a well-educated black because I really believe
they do have an actual advantage today
- [Julianne] After putting his racist
tendencies to rest definitely forever business was booming.
Donald was on the rise and so were his buildings.
Throughout the '80s, '90s, and 2000s it seems Trump
smeared his name in gold plating wherever he could.
Casinos, steaks, residential high rises,
vodka bottles, water bottles, board games
hotels, and golf courses all donned the Trump name
but so did the bankruptcy papers.
Trump's companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy six times.
By 1990, they owed 4 billion to more than 70 banks.
He refused to pay millions of dollars to working people,
like contractors and other businesses in the process,
which is probably why he made a cameo in Home Alone 2.
So is Trump really is rich as he claims he is?
From 1985 to 1994 Donald Trump lost at least $1.2 billion.
- I remember once my father and I were walking
down Fifth Avenue and there was a homeless person sitting
right outside of Trump tower.
And I think I was probably maybe nine
nine, 10, something like this.
It was around the same time as the divorce.
And I remember my father pointing to him and saying,
"You know, that guy has $8 billion more than me."
Because he was in such extreme debt at that point.
- [Julianne] He now claims to be a billionaire, but is he?
- I'm really rich.
- [Julianne] That sounds awesome.
But how much is it?
- Are you worth right now as you're sitting right here?
- Zero idea, David
- [Julianne] In April of 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic
crippled the US Forbes estimated that Trump's net worth
collapsed a full $1 billion.
It's unclear what Trump's actual net worth is.
Due to a bombshell report by the New York Times we do know
at least according to leaked tax returns,
the Trump is 421 million in debt.
According to the Times, Trump has not paid any income taxes
at all in 10 of the previous 15 years and spoiler alert,
the first year in the White House
he apparently only paid $750 in federal income taxes.
That's $750, just like 128gb iPhone 11.
Comparatively his predecessor president Barack Obama
paid about 1.8 million in taxes in his first year in office.
It's as if he's lying to the public,
seemingly conning them into
thinking he's something bigger than he is,
someone else entirely.
Like when he posed as his own publicist
frequently throughout the '70s, '80s and '90s,
to brag about himself to the public.
- [Donald] He treated his wife well
and he will treat Marla well.
He's somebody that has a lot of options,
and frankly you, he gets called by everybody,
he gets called by everybody in the book,
in terms of women.
- [Julianne] And then he went on to use his name recognition
for a brutal New York City case.
In 1989 when five young, Black and Latino teens were accused
of beating and raping a woman in Central Park
Donald was the loudest voice
in opposition of the young boys.
Donald took out a full page ad in four newspapers,
including the New York Times, calling for the execution
of the now innocent Central Park Five.
In all caps, the ads read,
"Bring back the death penalty, bring back our police."
- You don't know who did that crime.
And the court's going to decide who did that crime,
where you prejudging those arrested?
- No, I'm not prejudging at all.
I'm not in this particular case.
I'm saying if they're found guilty, if the woman died,
which she hopefully will not be dying
but if the woman died, I think they should be executed.
I think they, you should have the death penalty.
- [Julianne] Donald to this day has refused to apologize
for his calls to execute the innocent teenagers.
In 1992, Donald and Ivana divorced
after he cheated on her with Marla Maples,
who he later married in 1993.
Donald and Ivana settled for 14 million,
a deal she took because her team
worried Donald was going bankrupt.
That same year Maples gave birth
to Donald second and final daughter Tiffany Trump.
- She's really a beautiful baby.
And she's got Marla's legs.
We don't know whether or not she's got this part yet.
But time will tell.
- [Julianne] In the aftermath of the divorce,
Ivana claimed under oath Donald raped her.
The incident which was detailed in Ivana's deposition
was confirmed by two of her friends.
Later, Ivana walked back her claim without denying it,
saying she didn't mean that Trump raped her
in a literal or criminal sense.
This wouldn't be Donald's last rape accusation.
In the mid '90s, E. Jean Carroll,
a writer and former Miss Cheerleader USA,
claimed Donald raped her
in a department store dressing room.
Donald responded to the allegation by saying,
"She's not my type,"
which led many people to believe there is a type
of woman he would rape.
Over the next decades Donald was accused
of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment
by at least 26 women.
- [Donald] I'm automatically attracted to beautiful,
I just start kissing them.
It's like a magnet.
Just kiss, I don't even wait.
And when you're a star they let you do it.
You can do anything.
- whatever you want. - Grab them by the (bleep).
- [Julianne] From 1996 to 2015,
Trump owned the Miss Universe franchise
where his locker room behavior continued.
He and Howard stern chopped it up
about predatory behavior frequently.
- [Howard] Some of these foreign girls, you know
"Mr. Trump in my country, we say hello with vagina."
- [Donald] Well, you could also say as the owner
of the pageant it's your obligation to do that.
- [Howard] So have done that.
- [Donald] Well, I'll tell you the funniest is that I'll
go backstage before a show and everyone's getting dressed
and ready and everything else.
And you know, no men are anywhere.
And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner
of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it.
- [Julianne] Donald also seemed to agree
with stern that his own daughter was,
well I'll let him say it.
- [Donald] My daughter is beautiful.
Ivanka.
- [Howard] By the way, your daughter.
- [Donald] She's beautiful.
- [Howard] Can I say this?
A piece of ass. - Yeah.
- [Julianne] It wasn't he first time he seemingly
hit on his own daughter.
- And although she does have a very nice figure.
I've said that if Ivanka weren't my daughter,
perhaps I'd be dating her.
- Stop, oh it's so weird.
Stop it.
- Moving on.
- [Julianne] All this well, seemingly being good friends
with now deceased convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein,
who according to one report was a member
of Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort until October of 2007.
- [Reporter] Footage from 1992 found in
the NBC archives shows the future president
welcoming Jeffrey Epstein to his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The get together more than a decade before
Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in Florida
- [Julianne] 1999 Donald ran for president
and his good friend Roger Stone's request.
He ran on quite the ticket, too.
- Do you have a vice presidential candidate in mind?
- [Julianne] Well, I really haven't gotten quite there yet.
I guess Oprah, I love Oprah.
Oprah would always be my first choice.
- [Julianne] Stone helped pave the way for a George W. Bush
presidency by imploding an entire party.
Stone urged Pat Buchanan to run as Reform Party candidate
and then enlisted Donald to join the race
and sabotage Buchanan's chances to
ensure that the third-party candidate
wouldn't cost Bush the election.
- Well, Mr. Trump has said, he'll make a decision
at the end of February,
He has formed a presidential exploratory committee.
He has changed his registration
to the Independence Party of New York,
which is the Reform Party affiliate
- [Julianne] Donald eventually dropped out.
Around the time of his run his marriage was crumbling.
Maples and Donald officially divorced in 1999,
but he was never really single.
A year earlier in 1998 Donald met Slovenian model
Melania Knauss at a party.
They married a few years later
- We were both at the same party.
And that's how we met.
- [Larry] You liked her right away?
- I went crazy, I said,
I was actually supposed to me somebody else.
- [Julianne] In 2004 Donald lost two
Teen Choice Awards to Ashton Kutcher.
Around the same time he began hosting
the TV show The Apprentice
he launched Trump University,
but it was only in operation for five years because,
as NBC notes students alleged the university used false
advertising and high pressure sales techniques to lure them
to free investor workshops at which
they were sold expensive seminars
and told they would be mentored by real estate gurus
leading to the loss of thousands of dollars in tuition.
- At Trump university we teach success.
That's what it's all about.
Success.
It's going to happen to you.
- [Julianne] According to the sworn testimony
by former Trump University employees
many instructors and mentors had no experience
buying or selling real estate.
It's reported one instructor was a salesman
for Lowe's and another a manager for Buffalo Wild Wings
A former member of Trump's sales staff said the
university was a joke, it was a facade, a total lie
and that it was just selling false hopes and lies.
Trump faced a class action lawsuit
and was ordered to pay $25 million.
A USA Today report found that Donald and his businesses
have been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in
federal and state courts over the past three decades.
In 2006, Melania gave birth to their son Barron.
Four months after the arrival of his new son
Donald allegedly had an affair
with adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
Later, Donald allegedly paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money.
In 2011, three years into Obama's first term,
Trump was the leading proponent
of the birther conspiracy theory.
It was a racist conspiracy theory
that alleged America's first Black president
wasn't born in the United States,
which if true would be unconstitutional.
- I would like to have him show his birth certificate.
And can I be honest with you?
I hope he can because if he can't, if he can't and
if he wasn't born in this country,
which is a real possibility, I'm not saying it happened.
I'm saying it's a real possibility,
much greater than I thought two or three weeks ago.
Then he has pulled one of the
great cons in the history of politics.
- [Julianne] In response Obama released
his long form birth certificate.
On June 16th, 2015 Donald took a famous ride down
his gold plated escalator at New York's Trump Tower.
His rise to the presidency started with a descent,
an apt metaphor for what the future would definitely hold.
Fast forward to 2020 and much of what defines Trump,
his hallmark is veneer.
Be it the gold-plated decor,
his net worth, or his orange spray tan.
When you scratch under the surface
you find a decrepit mess hiding behind a thin shield.
It's just unclear if the American public is ready to admit
the truth hiding underneath Trump's wispy coif.
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