The Career of Donald Trump

In the early 1970s, Donald Trump was given a small loan of $1 million from his father. With this money, he bought up properties and began to develop them. He openedTrump Tower in 1983 - where he famously announced his candidacy for president after descending the Golden Escalator. But when economies across the western world started to fall into recession in the early 1990s, some of his businesses also suffered. His debts are believed to have gone into the billions at one point.

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