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== Personal life ==
=== Early life ===
[[File:Donald Trump NYMA.jpg|upright=0.7|thumb|alt=A black-and-white photograph of Donald Trump as a teenager, smiling, wearing a dark pseudo-military uniform with various badges and a light-colored stripe crossing his right shoulder|Trump at the [[New York Military Academy]], 1964]]
 
Trump was born on June 14, 1946, at [[Jamaica Hospital Medical Center|Jamaica Hospital]] in [[Queens]], New York City,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-embraces-birther/story?id=13240431|title=Donald Trump Steps Up Calls for Obama to Release Birth Certificate|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=March 28, 2011|access-date=September 11, 2024}}</ref> the fourth child of [[Fred Trump]] and [[Mary Anne MacLeod Trump]]. He grew up with older siblings [[Maryanne Trump Barry|Maryanne]], [[Fred Trump Jr.|Fred Jr.]], and Elizabeth and younger brother [[Robert Trump|Robert]] in the [[Jamaica Estates, Queens|Jamaica Estates]] neighborhood of Queens, and attended the private [[Kew-Forest School]] from kindergarten through seventh grade.{{sfn|Kranish|Fisher|2017|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=x2jUDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 33]}}<ref>{{cite news|last1=Schwartzman|first1=Paul|last2=Miller|first2=Michael E.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/young-donald-trump-military-school/2016/06/22/f0b3b164-317c-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html|title=Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny was a lot like candidate Donald Trump|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=June 22, 2016|access-date=June 2, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/us/politics/donald-trumps-old-queens-neighborhood-now-a-melting-pot-was-seen-as-a-cloister.html|title=Donald Trump's Old Queens Neighborhood Contrasts With the Diverse Area Around It|first=Jason|last=Horowitz|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 22, 2015|access-date=November 7, 2018}}</ref> AgedIn 131959, hehis enteredparents thesent him to [[New York Military Academy]], a private boarding school.{{sfn|Kranish|Fisher|2017|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=x2jUDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA38 38]}} In 1964, he enrolled at [[Fordham University]]. Two years later, he transferred to the [[Wharton School]] of the [[University of Pennsylvania]], graduating in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archives.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/commencement-program-1968.pdf|pages=19–21|title=Two Hundred and Twelfth Commencement for the Conferring of Degrees|work=[[University of Pennsylvania]]|date=May 20, 1968|access-date=March 31, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Matt|last=Viser|title=Even in college, Donald Trump was brash|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/08/28/donald-trump-was-bombastic-even-wharton-business-school/3FO0j1uS5X6S8156yH3YhL/story.html|date=August 28, 2015|access-date=May 28, 2018}}</ref> In 2015, Trump's lawyer threatened Trump's colleges, his high school, and the [[College Board]] with legal action if they released his academic records.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ashford|first=Grace|title=Michael Cohen Says Trump Told Him to Threaten Schools Not to Release Grades|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/politics/trump-school-grades.html|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 9, 2019|date=February 27, 2019}}</ref>
 
While in college, Trump obtained four student [[Conscription in the United States|draft]] deferments during the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-avoided-vietnam-with-deferments-records-show|title=Donald Trump avoided Vietnam with deferments, records show|date=April 29, 2011|work=[[CBS News]]|first=Brian|last=Montopoli|access-date=July 17, 2015}}</ref> In 1966, he was deemed fit for military service based on a medical examination, and in July 1968, a local draft board classified him as eligible to serve.<ref name="defer">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/questions-linger-about-trumps-draft-deferments-during-vietnam-war/2015/07/21/257677bc-2fdd-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html|title=Questions linger about Trump's draft deferments during Vietnam War|last=Whitlock|first=Craig|author-link=Craig Whitlock|date=July 21, 2015|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=April 2, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.archives.gov/foia/donald-trump-selective-service-draft-card.html|title=Donald John Trump's Selective Service Draft Card and Selective Service Classification Ledger|date=March 14, 2019|work=[[National Archives and Records Administration|National Archives]]|access-date=September 23, 2019}} – via [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)]]</ref><ref name="feet">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html|title=Donald Trump's Draft Deferments: Four for College, One for Bad Feet|last1=Eder|first1=Steve|last2=Philipps|first2=Dave|author-link2=David Philipps|date=August 1, 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> In October 1968, he was classified {{nowrap|1-Y}}, a conditional medical deferment for [[bone spurs]],<ref name="defer"/> and in 1972, he was reclassified {{nowrap|4-F}}, unfit for military service, permanently disqualifying him.<ref name="feet"/>