Not only that, I seem to remember that Trump worked for his father’s construction company when he was young - maybe summers between military school semesters? That would make it over 50 years in the private sector.
Other than Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush, Donald Trump is the only President in this list who actually ran a business, paid salaries, taxes, and overhead, and made business decisions. In the cases of Truman, Carter, and Bush, they were on the fringes of politics even when they were operating their businesses. In the case of Hoover, he was a successful mining engineer but had spent almost 15 years in the nonprofit and government sectors before becoming President. Trump is unique in that he was entirely in the private sector prior to 2015, most of that time running his enterprises.
Not only that, I seem to remember that Trump worked for his father’s construction company when he was young - maybe summers between military school semesters? That would make it over 50 years in the private sector.
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Yes, Trump’s father had him do hands on work in every aspect of the building trade.
https://www.chareidi.org/archives5777/voera/afredtrumpvrh77.htm
...Rabbi Wagner remembers Donald very well as a rambunctious blond kid.
“Donald’s father bequeathed to Donald and his brothers a billion dollars and this helped set him up in business. I remember accompanying my father to shul on Sunday mornings.
In the basement of the shul was a laundry room with coin-operated washing machines and dryers. Who do you think emptied out the coins from the machines? Donald and his brothers.
Donald was the second son. I remember him at the age of fourteen with a big shock of blond hair, energetic and mischievous. His father trained his children from an early age to be fully responsible, without cutting any corners. Donald was roguish but he absorbed his father’s uncompromising education.”...