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Donald Trump Net Worth

What Is Donald Trump Worth?

Donald Trump's Net Worth is $4.5 billion

1974-1989

In the 1970s, The Pennsylvania Central Railroad went bankrupt. After negotiations, Donald Trump was able to obtain a contract that authorises him to sell the railroad yards on Manhattan. Due to the poor economic climate, apartment plans was refused to be built and no one will be willing to purchase it. Trump had an idea to sell it as a location of a convention centre and it was chosen by the government over the two sites in 1978. Trump offered to lower the price if the complex would be built after his name, but turned down, along with his bid to build the convention.

During 1974, Trump obtains the same option for the Penn Central hotel, The Commodore, which was unprofitable even if it was in an excellent location beside the Grand Central Station. Trump was able to have a partnership agreement with Hyatt Hotel Corporation and he was able to revamp the hotel, making him one of the best-known and controversial developers in town.

In 1977, Trump married Ivana Zelnickova Winklmayr, a New York fashion model who had been an alternate on the 1968 Czech Olympic Ski Team. After the birth of the first of the couple’s three children in 1978, Donald John Trump, Jr., Ivana was named vice president in charge of design in the Trump Organization and played a major role in supervising the renovation of the Commodore.

In 1979 Trump rented a site on Fifth Avenue next to the famous Tiffany & Co as the location for a monumental $200 million apartment-retail complex designed by Der Scutt. It was named Trump Tower when it opened in 1982. The fifty-eight-story building featured a six-story courtyard and an eighty-foot waterfall. The luxurious building attracted well-known retail stores and celebrity renters and brought Trump national attention.

1990- present

In 1977, Trump got investigated due to his profitable gambling business. In the 1980s, he was able to get a new property in Atlantic City. He got a license for creating a gambling establishment, acquired a land and got permits and also got financed. Holiday Inns Corporation, the parent company of Harrah’s casino hotels, offered a partnership, and the $250 million complex opened in 1982 as Harrah’s at Trump Plaza. Trump bought out Holiday Inns in 1986 and renamed the facility Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. Trump also purchased a Hilton Hotels casino-hotel in Atlantic City when the corporation failed to obtain a gambling license and renamed the $320 million complex Trump’s Castle. Later, while it was under construction, he was able to acquire the largest hotel-casino in the world, the Taj Mahal at Atlantic City, which opened in 1990.

In NYC, Trump had purchased an apartment building and the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel in the front of Central Park, with plans to build a large condominium tower on the site. The tenants of the apartment building, however, who were protected by the city’s rent control and rent stabilisation programs, fought Trump’s plans and won. Trump then renovated the Barbizon, renaming it Trump Parc. In 1985 Trump purchased seventy-six acres on the west side of Manhattan for $88 million to build a complex to be called Television City, which was to consist of a dozen skyscrapers, a mall, and a riverfront park. The huge development was to stress television production and feature the world’s tallest building, but community opposition and a long city approval process delayed construction of the project. In 1988 he acquired the Plaza Hotel for $407 million and spent $50 million renovating it under his wife Ivana’s direction.

In 2015, Trump announced his candidacy for the 2016 Presidential Election, alongside with Mike Pence. They won against Hilary Clinton in the said election making him the 45th President of the United States.

Donald Trump Biography

Donald John Trump is the 45th President of the United States, a real estate businessman and a television personality. Trump reinvented their real estate firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son, to “The Trump Organization” and made an empire out of it. He is the 113th richest man in the US and the 324th in the world.

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