$BTC Born into a wealthy family in the New York neighborhood of Queens, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a degree in Economics. He became president of his family's real estate business in 1971, renamed it Trump Organization, and began acquiring and building skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He launched parallel businesses, many of them licensed under the Trump name, and declared bankruptcy six times during the 1990s and 2000s. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted the reality show The Apprentice, which solidified his fame as a billionaire. Trump, a political outsider, won the presidential elections