Donald Trump Jr.

Donald Trump Jr. and model Vanessa Kay Haydon got married on November 12, 2005, in Florida. His aunt, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, officiated the marriage. He had met Haydon at a fashion show in 2003.

They have five children—two daughters, Kai Madison and Chloe Sophia, and three sons, Donald John III, Tristan Milos, and Spencer Frederick. The youngest of all, Chloe Sophia, was born on June 16, 2014.

Some of Trump’s hunting photos led to serious controversies in 2012. Two photos clicked in 2010—one where he holds a dead animal belonging to an endangered species, and another where he holds a knife and a bloody elephant tail—led to serious consequences, and one of the sponsors of his father's ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ TV show dropped out of the program.

Born to Ivana Marie and Donald Trump on New Year’s Eve in 1977, in Manhattan, New York City, Donald John Trump Jr. is the oldest son of the couple. His father was then a real estate tycoon. Trump Jr. has two younger siblings—Ivanka and Eric. He also has two half siblings.

Trump was quite close to his maternal grandfather, as he spent the summers with him in Czechoslovakia. He learnt hunting and fishing from him.

In his childhood, he was often troubled by the media, who questioned him about his parents’ messy divorce in 1992. His mother, therefore, sent him to a boarding school, The Hill School, in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1996.

During the summers, he used to visit his father, and helped him as a dock attendant at the marina at Trump Castle, and later with the renovation of the Seven Springs estate in New York.

Trump passed out from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Real Estate in 2000. He is fluent in Czech, which he learnt from his maternal grandfather.

In 2001, Donald Trump Jr. joined his father’s business at Trump Organization, supervising the development of Trump Place, a complex at West Side, Manhattan. Later, he was given the responsibility of three key projects—40 Wall Street, which is a 71-storey skyscraper in New York city; Trump Park Avenue, which was being converted from a hotel in Manhattan; and the third project was the Trump International Hotel in Chicago.

Around the same period, he appeared as the guest adviser and judge on many episodes of the television show ‘The Apprentice’, from 2006 to 2015.

When he became the executive vice president of Trump Organization, he held the responsibility of new project acquisition and development for properties in different corners of the world—from Eastern Europe to Southeast Asia, from Middle East to China, and from Canada to the USA.

He oversees all aspects of real estate development—from deal evaluation and pre-development planning to construction, branding, marketing, and sales. He is also handling the leasing process for Trump Tower and 40 Wall Street in Manhattan.

In 2016, when his father decided to run for the US presidential race, he took up the challenge of handling the campaigns along with his brother and sister. In fact, he was one of his father’s close political advisers.

Donald Trump Jr.’s role in his family business, supervising the development of key real estate projects, is no doubt his significant responsibility.

His powerful election speeches have made him an eloquent speaker who has been invited by foreign countries to deliver keynote speeches.

His appearances as a guest adviser and judge on many episodes of the television show ‘The Apprentice’, and his hosting capabilities on TV shows like ‘21st Century Television’, and ‘Celebrity Apprentice’, have made him a well known TV personality.