The REAL Story of Donald Trump

Intro (0s)

• Donald Trump claims to know what is trendy and has been following trends his whole life, starting from the day he was born. (3s)
• He likes both good and bad publicity, believing that everything is about being in the spotlight. (8s)
• Despite being widely known, Donald Trump's life and how he became one of the most powerful people in the world are not well understood. (18s)
• The question of who Donald Trump is and what he truly wants remains unanswered, prompting a deeper look into his life and career. (23s)
• A study was conducted to understand how Trump rose to power and why his name and image appear on so many products. (34s)
• The topic of Donald Trump's hair is briefly mentioned, with someone named Larry joking that it is not a wig. (39s)
• The public is invited to explore Donald Trump's rise to power. (44s)
• Trump is known for being wealthy, famous, and for building structures and having multiple divorces. (51s)
• He is also known for playing the game of big business, likened to playing Monopoly, and for building with blocks. (56s)

Chapter 1: Childhood (57s)

• Donald Trump was born in the Queens borough of New York, with a view of Manhattan's skyline across the river, and was the middle child of five, with his mother being a Scottish immigrant who managed the Trump household and was known for her community charity work (1m2s).
• Trump's father, Fred Trump, built low- and middle-income housing in Brooklyn and Queens, utilizing post-World War II government projects to fund affordable housing and making a significant amount of money during New York's rapid growth period (1m19s).
• Fred Trump was known for being extremely hardworking, attributing his success to being able to "compress nine days of work into a seven-day workweek" (1m35s).
• Growing up, young Donald was a rich kid in the neighborhood, but his father still forced him to start a newspaper delivery route to teach him the value of hard work (1m46s).
• Despite this, on rainy days, Fred Trump would drive Donald along his newspaper route in his Cadillac (1m52s).
• Fred Trump focused on teaching his son the ways of the real estate business, taking young Donald to construction sites and instilling in him a strong competitive drive to win at all costs (1m57s).
• He told Donald that he was raising him to be a "king" and that everything he did had to be a "killer" (2m11s).
• Donald Trump was known to be aggressive in school, with his music teacher recalling that he was one of the kids who always needed attention (2m21s).
• Trump even punched his music teacher in the face, leaving him swollen, because, as he quoted, "I didn't think he knew anything about music" (2m33s).
• Trump focused on playing pranks in school because, as he quoted, "I liked to stir things up, I liked to test people" (2m51s).
• Trump attended the New York Military Academy (NYMA), which he later stated was one of the greatest decisions he made for his success (3m14s).

Chapter 2: Military Academy & College (3m19s)

• Donald Trump's father, Fred, was obsessed with hard work and discipline, which led him to send Donald to a military boarding school at the age of 13, where he began to thrive in a strict environment that fostered his competitive nature (3m23s).
• The military academy had a tense atmosphere where bullying and physical punishment were tolerated, but Donald excelled, earning medals for having the cleanest room, shiniest shoes, or best-made bed, and telling his classmates that he would one day be famous (3m47s).
• Donald's core beliefs, which became clear from a young age, include an obsession with winning, as evident in his childhood and throughout his life (4m17s).
• He was an excellent baseball player and had to be the best at everything, with his coach recalling that Donald would do whatever it took to win and wanted people to know he was the best (4m33s).
• After a year at the military academy, Donald returned to Queens to work with his father, learning the real estate business, an experience that greatly impacted him and laid the foundation for the person he would become (4m54s).
• Donald attended college, but was initially unsure of his direction, considering film school in Los Angeles to become a film producer (5m14s).
• However, he ultimately decided to follow in his father's footsteps, studying economics and business, and was able to defer his education, avoiding the draft due to a bone spur issue, although there is some controversy surrounding the legitimacy of this condition (5m59s).
• Donald began working for his father's thriving real estate business, building middle- and low-income apartments in Brooklyn and Queens (6m26s).
• In 1964, Donald attended the opening ceremony of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, where he noticed that the engineer who designed the bridge was not recognized, leading him to realize that if you let people treat you the way they want, you will be taken advantage of, and he did not want to be anyone's fool (7m16s).
• For Donald, it was not just about winning, but also about struggling for recognition and attention, which was important to him from a young age (7m32s).

Chapter 3: Career (7m38s)

• Donald Trump considers himself an artist, having built some of the greatest buildings in the world (7m38s).
• Trump joined his father's business and began learning the methods, starting with small deals in Brooklyn and Queens (7m42s).
• In his early 20s, Trump encountered significant problems that would change his life's trajectory, including a lawsuit in the 1970s (7m53s).
• The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sent undercover agents to different apartment buildings, including Trump's, to ensure landlords were not discriminating against tenants based on race (8m7s).
• The DOJ discovered a pattern of racial discrimination in Trump's buildings, with African American or Spanish applicants being told there were no available units, while white applicants were told there were units available (8m26s).
• In 1973, Trump and his father were sued by the DOJ, with the lawsuit stating that they were discriminating against people based on race or color (8m50s).
• The lawsuit found that managers would mark rental applications with a "C" for color, and a doorman testified that he was instructed to tell African American applicants that the rent was twice the actual rent (9m21s).
• The DOJ found that this pattern of discrimination was widespread in Trump's buildings, with at least 14,000 units affected (9m42s).
• The lawsuit was one of the largest fair housing cases at the time and was featured on the front page of The New York Times (9m57s).
• Trump, who was 27 at the time, was furious and denied the allegations, instead countersuing the DOJ for $100 million, claiming they made false statements (10m32s).
• The judge dismissed the countersuit, stating it had no basis, but Trump continued to fight (10m38s).
• Trump eventually settled with the DOJ, agreeing to make changes to his business practices, such as emphasizing that his buildings were open to people of all races, but he did not have to admit any wrongdoing (11m3s).
• Trump's response to the lawsuit was characteristic of his approach to challenges, which is to fight back and never admit fault (11m32s).
• The lawsuit marked a turning point for Trump, who began to lose interest in his father's business and instead focused on more lucrative and prestigious ventures in Manhattan (11m52s).
• The upper-class life in New York City is characterized by prestige, luxury, and being at the center of attention (12m22s).
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• The story of Donald Trump is about to be discussed, with the narrator expressing that they have never seen anything like the luxury in New York (14m17s).

Chapter 4: Manhattan (14m20s)

• In the 1980s, Manhattan was a declining city with many empty and dilapidated buildings, but Donald Trump had a grand vision and great enthusiasm to revive the city, unlike most investors who were hesitant to invest in the city at that time (14m30s).
• Trump predicted that New York would either get better or worse, and he believed it would get "much better" (15m5s).
• Over the next decade, Trump used his father's company connections, money, and reputation to buy old buildings and renovate them into luxurious properties (15m12s).
• One of his notable projects was the renovation of the old Commodore Hotel into the Grand Hyatt Hotel, which was valued at around $110 million (15m21s).
• Trump also purchased an old department store on Fifth Avenue and built his signature project, the 68-story Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan (15m33s).
• The Trump Tower was a popular renovation with a unique architectural style, and it became a symbol of Trump's success and his love for wealth, status, exclusivity, and attention (15m53s).
• Trump's success was not just about his business ventures, but also about creating a narrative and controlling the story of his success, which he believed was essential to his image and reputation (16m33s).
• Trump's story was not about being the son of a wealthy father who gave him money, reputation, and connections, but about being a smart and hardworking individual who achieved success through his own efforts (17m4s).
• Trump believed that people want to be sold a fantasy, and he was skilled at creating a narrative that people would believe, as reflected in his book where he wrote, "I cater to people's fantasies" (17m32s).
• Trump's ability to create a fantasy image of himself as a wealthy and successful businessman helped him build a platform and gain attention in the media, particularly in the New York City tabloids (18m22s).
• By the mid-1980s, Trump's high-rise buildings and larger-than-life personality had made him a household name, and he continued to promote his fantasy image as a wealthy playboy surrounded by women and celebrities (18m24s).
• Trump's ability to create a narrative and sell a fantasy image of himself helped him gain widespread attention and media coverage, including 22 consecutive days on the cover of the tabloids (18m40s).
• Donald Trump appeared on the front page of New York tabloids 87 times over a period of 15 years, which was a deliberate strategy to manipulate the media and the public's perception of him (18m46s).
• Trump learned how to crack the media code early on, understanding that negative reports about his business dealings, such as racial discrimination, bribery, and connections to mobsters, could be overshadowed by promoting a glamorous and fascinating lifestyle (18m56s).
• He would use this tactic to distract people from the negative aspects of his life and business, instead focusing on selling a fantasy that people wanted to believe in (19m14s).
• Trump's reputation as a ladies' man was also a deliberate attempt to garner attention, with him dating different women every year (19m36s).
• Trump and his first wife, Ivana Trump, tried to shape the narrative in the tabloids by cultivating relationships with columnists and planting information when their marriage was in trouble (20m6s).
• Trump's affair with actress Marla Maples, who later became his second wife and the mother of his fourth child, was a major scandal that he fueled instead of avoiding, as it increased his public image (20m27s).
• Trump was skilled at spreading rumors and using pseudonyms, such as John Miller or John Barron, to provide favorable information about himself to reporters (20m37s).
• In 1984, Trump called a Forbes reporter pretending to be John Barron, claiming to be the vice president of the Trump Organization, and provided false information about his wealth (20m53s).
• Trump's goal was not to win by following the rules, but to create the perception of winning, even if it meant lying or exaggerating the truth (22m21s).
• Trump's strategy was to give the tabloids the dramatic content they wanted about his personal life in exchange for the attention and publicity he craved, which he used to shape his public image (22m40s).
• Donald Trump's thought process and how he utilized it to achieve success, initially in the real estate development field, but soon in many more areas, is a key aspect of his story (22m50s).
• Trump's rise to fame and success can be seen in his transformation from being an 80s sensation to being viewed as a troubled man in the 90s (22m59s).
• A new billionaire emerged in town, marking a significant point in Trump's story (23m10s).

Chapter 5: Trump EVERYTHING (23m12s)

• Donald Trump is a significant dealmaker and a self-promoter who built his name into a brand throughout the 1980s and 1990s, appearing on various products such as Trump Magazine, real estate, and luxury lifestyle items (23m12s).
• Trump founded an airline, purchasing Eastern Shuttle for $365 million, which ultimately failed within a few years, but he claimed it was a success (23m34s).
• He launched a board game called Trump: The Game, which was essentially a version of Monopoly with some adjustments, featuring a billion dollars in Monopoly money with Trump's face on it (24m6s).
• Trump built a real estate empire and established several casinos in New Jersey, helping to revitalize Atlantic City, which were overly luxurious, like everything Trump touched (24m34s).
• He helped found the United States Football League to compete with the NFL, but it did not succeed (24m49s).
• Trump launched a vodka brand called Trump Vodka, which no longer exists and was expensive, despite him not being a drinker himself (25m0s).
• He was involved in beauty pageants, buying major pageants, which was an important part of the Trump image, often being surrounded by women (25m36s).
• At least 26 women have publicly accused Donald Trump of some form of inappropriate sexual behavior, including his ex-wife, who accused him of sexual assault but later softened her claims after a legal settlement (25m53s).
• Trump has denied all allegations, including a case where he was found guilty of sexual abuse, until he thought he was not being recorded (26m16s).
• Despite the allegations, Trump continued to build his brand, putting his name on various products, and becoming a celebrity, with a Trump Organization executive describing him as having transformed "from a serious businessman to a cartoon character" (26m46s).
• Trump appeared on the cover of Playboy, created a real estate investment course called Trump University, which led to massive lawsuits, and founded a travel website, a mortgage company, and a home and furniture brand (26m58s).
• Donald Trump had a line of men's clothing, including ties, which were highly valued among Mormon missionaries, who would trade them with each other, with Trump ties being the most valuable due to their brand power (27m27s).
• Trump also had a winery, a steak brand, and even a urine test kit that was sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars (27m49s).
• A bottle of "Trump Ice" water, which featured Trump's face on the label, was purchased, despite being expired since 2004, and was described as tasting like prestige (28m47s).
• Trump's image has become his biggest asset, especially among the American middle class, as he presents himself as a self-made man who has achieved the American dream, despite being born into a wealthy family (29m22s).
• Trump licenses his name to various products and buildings, but does not necessarily own or manage them, instead allowing the owners to use his name to convey a sense of prestige and brand power (29m9s).
• This business model allows Trump to profit from these ventures without using his own cash, and to distance himself from any failures (30m10s).
• Trump's primary skill is not as a traditional businessman, but as a marketer, performer, and salesman who has built a fantasy brand around himself (30m28s).
• Trump's rise to success can be attributed to his ability to sell himself and his brand, combined with the significant funding he had from the start (30m48s).
• By the early 2000s, Trump's brand had lost some of its luster, and his business empire was declining, but he was able to revive his image through his reality TV show in 2004 (31m13s).
• Donald Trump considered New York City to be the benchmark of success, and he claimed to be the city's biggest developer, with his name being synonymous with success (31m27s).
• The concept of the reality TV show "The Apprentice" was created by its producer, with Trump as the boss of his vast business empire, and contestants competing to impress him and get hired (31m39s).
• The show became a massive success, attracting millions of viewers, revitalizing Trump's image, and making him a household name in America (31m53s).
• Trump's "The Apprentice" lasted for 14 seasons, laying the groundwork for his future presidential campaign (32m13s).
• Trump officially announced his candidacy for President of the United States, promising to make the country great again (32m26s).
• When asked if he had the genes to be a successful politician, Trump replied that he was straightforward, which might not be a good thing for politicians, but could be beneficial if he were elected (32m40s).
• Trump expressed confidence in his ability to win the presidency if he were to run, stating that he believed he would be successful (32m49s).

Chapter 6: Politics (32m50s)

• Donald Trump had previously considered running for public office several times, but it wasn't until the 2000s, when he gained fame from his show "The Apprentice," that he started to get more involved in politics, questioning Barack Obama's citizenship in 2008. (33m8s)
• Trump's questioning of Obama's citizenship was seen as a blatant display of racism and didn't gain much popularity among Americans, and around the same time, the ratings for "The Apprentice" drastically declined, leading to the downfall of many of Trump's brand enterprises. (33m25s)
• Despite his failures, Trump has an insatiable desire for victory and recognition, and he has a proven script to achieve it, which led him to announce his presidential campaign in 2015. (33m43s)
• Trump's campaign was successful, and he won the presidency in 2016, despite not receiving the most votes, and he served as the President of the United States for four years. (34m47s)
• When Trump lost the election, he did what he had always done, fighting and disputing the results, attacking the system, and selling lies to angry crowds, which posed a threat to the foundation of American democracy. (34m57s)
• Many Republicans, including Dick Cheney, fear that Trump will run for president again, and they see him as a significant threat to the country, with Cheney stating that Trump is the biggest threat to the republic in the country's 248-year history. (35m31s)
• The system is trying to hold Trump accountable for his actions, and a new indictment has been unsealed, charging him with conspiring to defraud the United States, deprive citizens of their right to vote, and obstruct an official proceeding. (36m34s)
• As Trump runs for the White House again, the same components that led to his previous success are at play, including his tactics and beliefs, and he will likely continue to use the same playbook. (36m51s)
• Donald Trump is described as a person with low intelligence who has a deep and naked desire for recognition and winning, which has driven his actions throughout his life (37m28s).
• Trump's lifelong ambition is to win and gain recognition at any cost, and this pursuit may lead him to tear the country apart, similar to Dick Cheney (37m50s).
• A similar video about Kamala Harris' life will be released next week, aiming to provide a neutral biographical commentary on her life (38m3s).
• The creator of the content has attempted to view Trump's life from a neutral perspective but also feels the need to express their observations and concerns (38m14s).
• Through researching Trump's life, the creator has gained a more nuanced understanding of him and is able to humanize him, but also feels compelled to speak out when they believe the political system is under attack (38m25s).
• The creator promotes their other channel, "Search Party", which explores geopolitics and global sports, and their music brand, "Half Step", which offers customized music for videos (38m44s).
• The creator encourages viewers to register to vote, as it only takes about 90 seconds, and emphasizes the importance of participating in the democratic process, especially among young people (39m14s).