Trump Life Donald Trump is a very fortunate person because of the life he has lived and was born into. He was a fortunate presidential candidate, he was fortunate in business because his dad owned a business before he was even born, and he was fortunate as a kid to be born in a life with money. First, let's talk about how Mr. Trump was a fortunate presidential candidate because of who the opposing candidate was. In 1987 Trump told Newsweek "I'm not running for President,"... "But if I did, I'd win" (Source A). Not to long after he said this, he ran for president in 2016 and ended up winning against presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Some big things that helped Trump win the election were things like she lied, she sent out thousands of private emails, and she even cheated in the election. “Her choice to use a private e-mail address and server for governmental affairs while she held the post of secretary of state” (Source B). …show more content…
“ He went to work in his father’s company, the Trump Organization, and worked to expand its holdings of rental housing” (Source). He later owned his father's company and ended up selling it. “After riding out the economic roller coaster in the 1990s, Trump found the first decade of the twenty-first century to be one of his most successful periods. In this decade, he sold his late father’s company to a group of investors for $600 million, earning $200 million for Trump after he split the proceeds with his siblings” (Source). This was a big start to his Business