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Official White House presidential portrait. Head shot of Trump smiling in front of the U.S. flag, wearing a dark blue suit jacket with American flag lapel pin, white shirt, and light blue necktie.
45th and 47th President of the United States
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 20, 2025
Vice PresidentJD Vance
Preceded byJoe Biden
In office
January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
Vice PresidentMike Pence
Preceded byBarack Obama
Succeeded byJoe Biden
Vice President of the Fred C. Trump Foundation
In office
August 1, 1969 – September 26, 2013
Serving with Robert Trump (1969-2013) and Irwin Durben (1952-2013)
Preceded byFred Trump
Succeeded byIrwin Durben
Juels J. Haskel
Special Advisor to the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports[a]
In office
February 4, 1982 – September 30, 1991
PresidentRonald Regan
George H.W. Bush
ChairmanGeorge Allen
Dick Kazmaier
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Co-Chairman of the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission
In office
November 5, 1982 – May 31, 1985
Serving with Scott Higgins
MayorEd Koch
Succeeded byHarry Bridgwood (1999)[b]
Personal details
Born
Donald John Trump

(1946-06-14) June 14, 1946 (age 78)
Queens, New York City, U.S.
Political partyRepublican (1987–1999, 2009–present)
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RelativesTrump family
Alma materFordham University[c]
University of Pennsylvania (BS)
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AwardsFull list
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White House Chief of Staff
Susie Wiles White House Chief of Staff January 20, 2025 – present Republican
Dan Scavino White House Deputy Chief of Staff January 20, 2025 – present Republican Conservative Partnership Institute
Stephen Miller White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy & Homeland Security Advisor January 20, 2025 – present Republican America First Legal Foundation
Counselor to the President
Peter Navarro Senior Counsellor to the President for Trade and Manufacturing January 20, 2025 – present Republican America First Policy Institute
Senior Advisor to the President
Massad Boulos Senior Advisor to the President for Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs January 20, 2025 – present Republican
Boris Epshteyn Senior Advisor to the President January 20, 2025 – present Republican
White House Czar(s)
Tom Homan White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations January 20, 2025 – present Republican The Heritage Foundation
David Sacks Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology January 20, 2025 – present Independent Independent Institute
Special Envoys
Tom Barrack United States Special Envoy for Syria May 28, 2025 – present Republican
Richard Grenell Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions January 20, 2025 – present Republican American Center for Law & Justice
Keith Kellogg United States Special Envoy for Ukraine January 20, 2025 – present Republican America First Policy Institute
Steve Witkoff United States Special Envoy to the Middle East March 15, 2025 – present Independent
White House Office(s)
Steven Cheung White House Communications Director January 20, 2025 – present Republican
Vince Haley Director of the Domestic Policy Council January 20, 2025 – present Republican Center for Renewing America
Kevin Hassett Director of the National Economic Council January 20, 2025 – present Republican America First Policy Institute
Paula White Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office February 7, 2025 – present Republican America First Policy Institute
Russell Vought Director of the Office of Management and Budget February 7, 2025 – present Republican Center for Renewing America
Cabinet
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Secretary of Health and Human Services February 13, 2025 – present Independent
Linda McMahon Secretary of Education March 3, 2025 – present Republican America First Policy Institute
Howard Lutnick Secretary of Commerce February 21, 2025 – present Republican
John Ratcliffe Director of the Central Intelligence Agency January 21, 2025 – present Republican America First Policy Institute
Brooke Rollins Secretary of Agriculture February 21, 2025 – present Republican America First Policy Institute
JD Vance Vice President January 20, 2025 – present Republican Heritage Foundation

Political influences of Donald Trump

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The political positions of Donald Trump (sometimes referred to as Trumpism[1][2][3]), the 45th president and 47th president of the United States, have frequently changed, though he has held generally conservative, anti-intellectual, and populist inclinations throughout his life,[4] and is considered a prominent figure of the radical right[5][6][7] in American politics,[8] while also being characterized as McCarthyist[9][10][11] or Nixonian.[12] Trump variously referred to himself as a conservative,[13][14] a “common-sense conservative,”[15] a “man of common sense,”[16] and a nationalist[17][18] in a “true sense,”[19] while also initially saying he identified with Democrats on some[20] or most issues.[21] His most consistent positions have been characterized as protectionist on trade, anti-immigrant, and nationalistic in foreign policy.[22]

Trump has cited clergyman and author Norman Vincent Peale and federal prosecutor Roy Cohn,[23] both prominent conservative and anti-communist activists throughout the mid-20th century, as influences on his approach to business and politics, while also claiming to admire figures such as entrepreneur and New Jersey state senator Malcolm Forbes,[24] film producer and executive Louis B. Mayer[25] and former U.S. president William McKinley.[26] Other figures who have influenced Trump include his father, Fred Trump Sr., and political consultant Roger Stone. During the Second Red Scare, Peale and Cohn were closely associated with United States senator Joseph McCarthy. Cohn and Peale would be influential in informing the strategies, tactics, and rhetoric of McCarthyism,[27] which would evolve in to the radical right.[28]

Trump would grow to become Trump Sr.’s most like-minded child, with the former idolizing the latter and privately holding moral and political views aligned with the Republican Party, embracing right-wing populist politics.[29][30] He was a practicing teetotaler and authoritarian parent, espousing racist, anti-semitic,[31] and morally geographic views,[32] being accused of engaging in racially discriminatory housing practices as president of Trump Management.[33] Roger Stone would claim that Trump Sr. was also a financier of the John Birch Society, a close friend of its founder Robert Welch, and a donor to the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade.[34] However, the organization’s former president, John A. McManus, claimed he was neither a member or donor.[35] When Trump was vice president of Trump Management, he and his father regularly talked and gossiped about local businesses and politics within New York City.[36] Within the right wing of the Republican Party, commonly referred to as the Old Guard, most prominently associated with Styles Bridges, Everett Dirksen, Joseph McCarthy, and Robert A. Taft, whose values Trump Sr. would circumstantially align with, promoted policies based on a strictly construed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, prevention of federal regulation of states’ rights and commercial interests, limiting federal spending, maintaining a balanced budget, domestically and internationally opposing the spread of communism, pursuing a unilateralist foreign policy eschewing alliances entailing advance security commitments, and levying tariffs on imports as a partial means of achieving economic self-sufficiency. They were especially opposed to programs within the New Deal, which they derided as communist, socialist, or overreaching, with their programs as unnecessary, unconstitutional, and a political liability.[37]

Both Trump Sr. and Trump were also admirers of Norman Vincent Peale, who was a practitioner of Positive Thinking and infrequent attendees of the former’s services at Marble Collegiate Church.[29] While Peale was a pastor, his sermons were sekdom biblically informed,[38] instead portraying God as an avuncular or natural force, preaching that through invoking the latter’s power, one can overcome issues in everyday life, ranging from poverty to alcoholism, through self-confidence and visualization. He repeatedly equated commercial acumen with piety, uncertainty with religious doubt, personal and cultural failure with collectivism and godlessness, and a lack of self-confidence as an affront to God, and defined Americans as socially superior. Peale would become a prominent figure in American conservatism throughout the early to mid-20th century, praising American culture and capitalism as critical to its success. Throughout the 1930s to 1940s, Peale delivered politically charged sermons, preaching that individual well-being and religious piety were inseparable, with self-confidence being impossible without faith in God, preaching that Americans see themselves as a nation under God. He argued that relating Positive Thinking with right-wing populism could instigate societal enthusiasm and that increased faith in God could counter communism as a subversive influence on American society, with a lack of religiosity being synonymous with being individually unstable and un-American. With support from U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, Peale stated that what he preached was synonymous with American national identity. Outside his religious services, Peale would also actively lobby against the New Deal, claiming it would worsen the economic issues it was trying to address. He warns that U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt and the federal government were dictatorial. Peale would serve as the chairman of the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, which would develop close relations with the America First Committee and was an advisory board member to Spiritual Mobilization. After World War II, he supported Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist political campaign during the Second Red Scare, developing a strong following amongst those supporting the above.[39]

Conservative activist, lawyer, and former federal prosecutor Roy Cohn also mentored and advised Trump. Cohn served as attorney for the Trump Organization between 1973 and 1984, with both men becoming close friends at that time, often calling each other five times a day. Cohn would first become nationally prominent as a leading anti-communist public figure in the United States for his role in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and execution of the witch hunts that characterized the Second Red Scare in his role as chief counsel to the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by senator Joseph McCarthy.[40][41] In the latter position, McCarthy was advised by Cohn on how to undertake the subcommittee’s investigations.[27][41] He preferred to hold closed hearings in open forums, in line with McCarthy's preference for having "executive sessions" and "off-the-record" sessions away from the Capitol to minimize public scrutiny and to question witnesses with relative impunity, being given free rein in pursuit of many investigations, with McCarthy joining in only for the more publicized sessions.[42] Cohn would also play a significant role in the Lavender Scare, where he and McCarthy alleged that Soviet Bloc intelligence services had blackmailed multiple U.S. Federal Government employees into committing espionage in return for not exposing their closeted homosexuality.[43] Both were responsible for the firing of numerous gay men from government employment and strong-armed opponents into silence using rumours of their homosexuality.[44] After McCarthy’s censure by the Senate as a result of the Army-McCarthy hearings, Cohn entered into private practice in New York,[45] where he would go on to represent Trump himself,[46] New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner;[47] Aristotle Onassis;[48] mafia figures Tony Salerno, Carmine Galante, John Gotti and Mario Gigante; Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager; the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and Texas financier and philanthropist Shearn Moody Jr., and business owner Richard Dupont.[49] Throughout and after his legal practice, Cohn would be amongst America’s most noted lawyers, characterized by his reputed ruthlessness, personal vanity, and reportedly illicit behaviour.[50][51][52] Cohn would also be involved in political activism, where he would have close ties to conservative political circles and develop relations with individuals and organizations aligned with or part of the radical and old right. He would serve on the board of directors of both the Western Goals Foundation,[53] which was affiliated with the far-right John Birch Society through its founding members, with himself reportedly being a member, and the American Jewish League Against Communism. Cohn would also be lifelong friends with conservative archbishop of New York Francis Spellman, far-right pastor Billy Hargis, with both aligned with Cohn’s politics and passions.[54]

In 1979, Trump would be introduced by Cohn to his protégé, Roger Stone, when both men were serving on Ronald Reagan’s second presidential campaign. Stone served as a campaign adviser to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, Jack Kemp, George W. Bush, and Trump himself, advising and lobbying for the latter the most. His reported ruthlessness would characterize his style of achieving his client's goals as a political strategist and fixer. Outside of his alignment to the new right through his initial founding and leadership of the National Conservative Political Action Committee in 1975, Stone would also be a founding partner of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, a firm that would lobby on behalf of foreign nationalist governments, non-state actors, businesses, and Republican political actors. In 2018, Stone was revealed to have also maintained longstanding relations with the Proud Boys, a radical right militant organization, having a close relationship with its leader Enrique Tarrio. From 2022 to 2023, Stone served as a strategic senior advisor to the right-wing populist Ontario Party under Derek Sloan.


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