Trivia

When Trump appeared as himself on The Nanny (1993), he caused quite a stir when his people issued a written request to change the reference to him as a "millionaire" in the script to read "billionaire." After some consideration Fran Drescher suggested "zillionaire," and that is what ended up on the aired episode. Fran's ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson held onto the original note, had it framed, and it hangs in his office to this day.

Two of his three wives were not born in the United States.

Is a self-confessed germaphobe.

Though he owns labels that market it, he doesn't drink alcohol.

Is the fifth president to win the election while losing the popular vote.

Declined the $400,000-a-year presidential salary and pledged to accept $1 a year as his salary as president. Presidents Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy were the first to refuse presidential salaries.

Received five deferrals during the Vietnam War.

When conducting business incognito in the 1980s, Trump would often refer callers to his spokesperson, John Barron, who was actually Trump himself hiding behind the fake name. Coincidentally, Barron Trump is the name of his first child with third wife Melania Trump.

He is 22 days older than President George W. Bush and 66 days older than President Bill Clinton. As Trump was also born in 1946, it marks the first time three presidents were born in the same year.

He Appointed Gina Haspel as CIA Director making her the first woman to head the CIA and the first President to appoint a woman to lead the CIA (May 21, 2018).

First ever sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea when he crossed the demarcation line in the demilitarized zone, after shaking hands with North Korean leader Jong-Un Kim [Sunday June 30, 2019].

One of his first actions as president was to restore the bust of former British prime minister Winston Churchill to the Oval Office, which had been removed by his predecessor Barack Obama.

Donald and Melania's lavish 2005 wedding at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, was attended by then Senator Hillary Clinton and former US President Bill Clinton. Other attendees of note were Rudy Giuliani, Barbara Walters, Conrad Black, etc.

Through April 2011 to 2016, he alleged that President Barack Obama might have been born outside the United States, which would have potentially made Obama ineligible to serve as president. The allegations were understood by most as quite serious, as Trump initially went on television and offered a cash reward to Obama if he released his birth certificate. Obama had released his short-form birth certificate, and later released the long-form version as well. Showing that there were no hard feelings, Trump attended the White House Press Corps Dinner, where Obama announced to Trump he would do one better, and play the actual birth video. Obama then played a clip from The Lion King (1994). During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump conceded in the press conference that Obama was born in the United States.

He is the only US president to run for re-election after being impeached. President Andrew Johnson declined to seek a second term, while President Bill Clinton was impeached in his second term and was therefore term-limited.

Unlike most business executives, he does not carry a briefcase and possesses a morbid fear of shaking hands.

Supports medical marijuana.

He is the first sitting US President to pay homage to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel (May 22, 2017).

Biographer Tony Schwartz, who spent 18 months of his life ghostwriting "Trump: The Art of the Deal" (1987), was one of the very few authors who did not have to sign a confidentiality agreement, a clause that effectively muzzled subsequent Trump biographers. In July 2016, however, Schwartz received a "Cease and desist" notice from Trump's lawyers. Shortly before the 2016 election, Schwartz described his writing of the book as "putting lipstick on a pig".

On Wednesday December 6, 2017 Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the Capital City of Israel becoming the first US President and first World Leader to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's Capital City. He also instructed the US State Department to start preparations to move the US Embassy which is currently in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

He pardoned Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio praising him for his work to curb illegal immigration on the Southern Border with Mexico (August 25, 2017).

Revealed on Donald Trump (2011) that he personally shuns the use of alcohol, tobacco, drugs and tattoos. Is pro-military spending.

Inducted into the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Hall of Fame in 2013.

He is the first sitting U.S. president to address the March for Life Rally (January 24, 2020).

On August 5, 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines challenged Donald Trump to a 'fist-fight' after Trump called for all Filipinos to be banned from coming to America.

The second president of the United States to have been born in New York City after Theodore Roosevelt.

According to a February 2017 article in The New York Times, during the first month of his presidency he received more media coverage than any single person in the history of modern news media.

Donald's father, Fred Christ Trump (born in Woodhaven, New York, October 11, 1905), was a multi-millionaire developer, whose own parents were German. Fred developed apartments, homes, and high rises in New York. He died June 25, 1999. In 1936, Fred married Donald's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod (born in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, May 10, 1912), who died August 7, 2000. When she first came to the U.S., Donald's mother worked as a maid, as did at least one of her sisters.

Won the 2016 United States presidential election, and took office on January 20, 2017, becoming the 45th President of the United States.

There were multiple class-action lawsuits against Donald Trump's so-called Trump University because of alleged fraudulent behavior. 400 pages of internal documents of Trump University were released by Judge Gonzalo Curiel, despite sustaining repeated public attacks from Trump, who had fought to keep the details secret. New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman, who has also sued Trump University, said : "If you look at the facts of this case, this shows someone who was absolutely shameless in his willingness to lie to people, to say whatever it took to induce them into his phony seminars." The documents describe how the Trump staff was instructed to target prospective students' weaknesses to encourage them to sign up for ultra-expensive $34,995 'Gold Elite' three-day courses. [The Guardian, June 2016]. The suits were settled by Mr. Trump for $25,000,000 on November 18th 2016.

After Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff was imprisoned for life in June 2009, Trump refused to rent an apartment to his wife Ruth Madoff.

Named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2016. Trump felt that this title was 'politically correct' as he had really hoped to be selected as the magazine's "Man of the Year" instead.

Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania were all won by Donald Trump in the 2016 Election. Since 1992, all three were carried by the Democrats. Wisconsin voted Republican for the first time since 1984 and Michigan and Pennsylvania went Republican for the first time since 1988.

On May 4, 2016, he became the presumptive Republican nominee for president after his final two primary opponents, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, dropped out of the race. He became the first major party presidential nominee with no elective, appointive, or military public experience since Wendell Willkie won the Republican nomination in 1940. After winning the election and being inaugurated, he became the first president with no such prior government experience.

At age 70 in 2016, he was the oldest person elected to their first term as president. Ronald Reagan previously was the oldest elected first term president when he was elected at age 69 in 1980, and holds the record for the oldest person to win a U.S. presidential election when he was reelected at age 73 in 1984. Both were later surpassed by Joe Biden (77) in 2020.

In May 2018 donated one-fourth of his $400,000-per-year salary to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Is the first president to win the presidency while losing the popular vote since George W. Bush in the 2000 election.

For two years during the 1950s, folk legend Woody Guthrie ("This Land is Your Land") was a tenant at the Beach Haven apartment complex in Brooklyn which was owned by Fred Trump, father of Donald Trump. Guthrie even wrote a song "Old Man Trump" about his experiences with his landlord.

In his first book, "The Art of the Deal" (with Tony Schwartz), he wrote that he briefly thought of attending the University of Southern California (USC), with the idea of becoming a film producer or studio executive. He eventually changed his mind when he decided that the real estate business was more lucrative.

Received nearly three million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

Won 30 states and Maine's second congressional district in the 2016 presidential election. This marked the first time Maine separated its electoral votes since 1828.

As a guest of FOX's Bill O'Reilly Trump confessed that, though once a pro-choice advocate, he is now pro-life, and is against gay marriage.

His presidential tenure has spawned the term "Trump Bump" by which, for example, the George Orwell novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" experienced a new lease on life by becoming one of Amazon's top-selling books (Jan. 2017) after almost 70 years since it was first published (1949).

In May 2018, he further isolated the United States from its European allies and most of the international community by carrying out his pledge that the United States should unilaterally withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal framework. His decision was welcomed by Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Is the first sitting president to confirm a new Supreme Court Justice in the first 100 days of his first term as President since 1881.[April 2017].

Donald Trump had a cameo in Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010). According to Stone, Trump's scene with Michael Douglas was shot in a day and this took nine takes from different perspectives. This did not succeed into the final version because the feature was too long, but this can be seen in the 'Deleted Scenes' of the Blu-ray.

Had a forty percent approval rating which is the lowest for any incoming president in modern history.[Jan 2017].

In January 2016, Trump threatened to end his £700 million investment in Scotland through his two golf resorts at Turnberry and Menie, if the Scottish government banned him from entering Scotland.

Is the first sitting president to attend an NRA convention since Ronald Reagan.[April 2017].

His paternal grandparents, Friedrich Trump and Elisabeth Christ, were German. His mother was Scottish, born in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, to Malcolm Macleod and Mary Smith.