Business Ethics Case Study: Donald Trump

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Abstract
Donald Trump is a billionaire real estate mogul grew up well off and followed his father’s career path into real estate and business partnerships. Donald Trump expanded his empire by developing condominiums and apartment buildings. Donald shared his ups and downs with investments in the real estate market. As a child Trump experienced events that seem to have impacted his behavior in adulthood. He has experienced divorce from two previous marriages. Also, Trump is known for being a reality television star on the NBC reality series The Apprentice and Trump has become well known for his extreme personality and abrupt comments about his fellow candidate Hillary Clinton in running for the 2016 Presidential Election. Psychiatrists believe as evidenced by Azarian (2016), that Trump exhibits a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others (para 2).

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Introduction
BACKGROUND Donald Trump was born in Queens, New York to Frederick Trump and Mary Anne Macleoud. Frederick was a builder and real estate developer who specialized in constructing and operating middle income apartments in Queens, Staten Island, and Brooklyn.
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Trump became popular quickly on the show and was admired by his viewers for his personality. According to McAdams (2016), Trump’s personality is certainly extreme by any standard, particularly rare for a presidential candidate (para 5). Donald Trump now is in candidacy with Hilary Clinton to become President of the United States. According to (Azarian, 2016), the author speaks on Donald Trump and his lack of empathy toward Mexican immigrants (para 5). Based off Azarian (2016), instead of recognizing that the data shows that most Mexican immigrants are not violent, Trump appears to focus on Mexican immigrants as criminals and drug dealers (para

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