Donald Trump's Childhood | Making of a President Part 1

good evening I'm Elizabeth Vargas and I'm David mure tonight millions of Americans of course are still talking about it election Night In America still feeling it it is a Triumph for Millions who believe they have finally been heard but there is also profound soul searching for Millions as well asking how did this happen Hillary Clinton winning the popular vote but what cannot be disputed a decisive win in the Electoral College for Donald Trump and late this week that moment the president and the president-elect the first step on a long Road toward healing we are in unchartered political territory with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to protest after one of the most divisive campaigns in our history so what drives this man and how will it shape his presidency here's Tom yamas in 70 days Donald Trump will have a new job I very much look forward to dealing with the president and a new home trading three floor of his glittering Versa inspired penthouse for the slightly more stayed corridors of the White House I am looking around this room the White House might be a step down the White House is the White House it's just a a spectacular place and you know it's uh something that represents something very special Lara Trump is married to Donald son Eric will they totally redecorate the White House to look like Trump Tower they have they'll make things how they like them comfortable but but very nice and well done and tasteful they're not going to be knocking down any walls so how did he get there we're going to get to work immediately for the American people even his close friends like billionaire real estate Tycoon Richard leafar never saw it coming well I'm not surprised I'm astonished it's I'm more than surprised but he gets the ball down the field he's going to put it in the end zone and score a touchdown that's the way he is I love this country thank you thank you very much it's a story that begins about 15 mil away from his victory party 70 years ago in Jamaica Estates a wealthy neighborhood in Queens New York you can't understand Donald without looking at his childhood Donald J Trump lived in this ornate home the fourth of five children he did not grow up as a middle- class kid the family had chauffeurs he was taking to school in a limousine he never had to work regular jobs he described his mother Mary a Scottish immigrant as the perfect housewife his father Fred was a millionaire real estate developer the Trump patriarch has been described as a human machine driven his father was you know he was a demanding guy and he did very much push Donald and Donald in some ways was the chosen son that ambition was unmistakably prevalent in young Donald 's DNA Donald I think was more than a troublemaker he was a profound brat he has said that that he he punched his teachers when he didn't like what he was being told to do in need of discipline young Donald was shipped off to New York Military Academy once he came under the control of the staff at the school he wanted to excel he had to be first at everything even if it was just to get first in line at the cafeteria just last year Trump told ABC's Barbara Walters about his dreams at that time in his life what was your fantasy when you were very young to be a baseball player I was a great baseball player what position first base catcher first base but in those days you got paid $2 right and that's not for Donald Trump I mean no but my other fantasy as I got older was to do uh movies I wanted to be a Movie Maker do you think his father had any role in him not pursuing that career and show business I think there was no way Donald wasn't inevitably going to become a real estate developer he's still still fascinated by stardom I think that was one of the things that stood out for me the most was this cinematic sense he has of himself he identifies strongly with Orson Wells and citizen King until a few weeks ago I had no hope of being elected but at the end of the day his father exerted a pretty inescapable pull on him to come back to the family business he accompanied his father to sites all over New York's outer burus where Fred Trump was building middle and low-income housing and I started making little deals in Brooklyn and Queens with my father and they seem to work out and then with the loan from Dad Donald Trump struck out on his own I think the rules that Fred Trump taught his son Donald began with you must be a winner so this is a person who plays hard and wants to win and if that means setting the rules himself he'll set the rules himself and then try to get everyone else to play by them those rules would have devast devastating consequences for Donald's brother Fred Jr he drank heavily and died of heart failure at the age of 43 I think Fred would have been very happy if he didn't have to compete he had to compete because of the environment he had to compete and It ultimately ended up destroying him and it was very sad very sad and ultimately it was alcohol that just decimated him and I'm glad I'm not a drinker I mean I've never had a drink in my life younger brother Robert who worked for Donald later in life learned what older brother Donald was like at an early age Robert had a set of blocks and I had a set of blocks and I asked Robert if I could have his blocks and I built a beautiful tall block building and then I said I like it so much that I gled it together and then Robert couldn't have his block so I don't know somehow that story is a story that a lot of people have asked me about I don't know what do you think it says well it says I think that just even at a young age I wasn't so much different than I am now I don't know you had to get what you wanted even if it was somebody else's blocks well i' see story isn't it Richard lefr has been friends with Donald Trump for nearly half a century he says the man he knows is not that different from the boy gluing his brother's confiscated blocks the drive the determination this kind of Boundless Energy that he has that's always been Donald he loves to accomplish things we have to get it finished and get it started and he loves to be complimented for his achievements hello Lyn Patton speaking his longtime staffer Linn Patton says the the serial Twitter user is quite oldfashioned at least when it comes to technology it took us a while to wean him from a flip phone to his smartphone Mr Trump uh runs things his way and it certainly works for him so you know they say don't fix it if it ain't broke there is no such thing as an email from Donald Trump that does not exist never seen him with a computer but he does take the time to write very nice handwritten notes Donald never wants to curl up with a book Donald likes I ity he likes people what words would you use to describe Donald Trump I've always had great imagination I've had great success with money I've actually gotten along well with people over the years you have said that one of the most important aspects in your personality is winning why winning what about the it's not whether you win or lose it's how you play the game I like winning better look we have to win Trump says another part of the formula for success is not revealing your weaknesses what is your greatest fear well I don't want to reveal fears because if I reveal fears I'm giving up something you know we all have certain fears and everybody has fears but I don't like revealing my fears being non-conventional is part of his Playbook my name is Donald Trump and I'm the largest real estate developer in New York next after extending his footprint on land he conquered the air television you want to be in the presence of Donald J Trump you cannot be weak you got to be tough and you got to be able to take it you're fired you're fired you're all fired all four are fired stay with us

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Length: 8min 17sec (497 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 12 2016