Donald Trump Personality

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Candidate’s Background Donald Trump is the nominee of the Republican Party for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He is not only a politician, but also well known as one of a famous American businessman as the Chairman and the President of The Trump Organization, an author, and a television personality (Donald Trump Biography, 2016). He was born in June 14th, 1946 in New York City. He graduated from New York Military Academy in 1964 and went to Fordham University for a few years before transferring to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and received an undergraduate degree in Economics in 1968 (Valerie, S., 2015). Right after his graduation, he joined to and started to work at his father’s real estate …show more content…
As a consequence, as mentioned in earlier section, in 1999, Mr. Trump mentioned that he would be a potential candidate for the Reform Party 's presidential nomination, but he withdrew it soon despite he received considerable vote in California (Donald Trump Biography, 2016). After he made a conspicuous figure in political performance, he kept trying to make hard his political background. The Apprentice, which made Mr. Trump as a famous television personality, was aired in 2003. The show made him took a lot advantage of his public profile personal, and his catchphrase, which is “You’re Fired”, was the word on everybody’s lips at that time. Since 2003, he appeared several shows and was engaged public attention (The Politics and Elections Portal, …show more content…
Trump does not seem to have firm political position for LGBTQ rights. He has changed his political position about the LGBTQ rights, just like the experiences that he had changed his Political Party several times. It might because he rarely have political experiences or does not have political view firmly. However, one thing he seems to have is that he has positive attitude for LGBTQ American otherwise he is strongly on the side of traditional marriage, in general. Moreover, Mr. Trump tries to be “looked” as a person who has an open-minded and sympathetic thought toward LGBTQ population. Because, when he made a speech in last June, 2016, after the shooting tragedy targeted gay community, he officially used “real friend” toward the gay community, which could be very contrastive attitude he had had before. It is not pretty sure that he has changed his position for LBGTQ American and their civil rights, but at least he has changed “political attitude” for them, currently, although the change is only for the Presidential election

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