Born on June 14, 1946, in the borough of Queens, New York, Donald John Trump was the fourth of five children born to Fred and Mary Anne Trump. His father, a formidable real estate developer who built thousands of units of middle-class housing throughout Brooklyn and Queens, was a man of intense discipline and competitive drive. Fred Trump viewed business as a zero-sum game, a philosophy he instilled in his children from an early age. Growing up in the affluent neighborhood of Jamaica Estates, Donald was exposed to the gritty realities of construction and property management long before he entered the workforce. He spent his youth shadowing his father on job sites, learning the granular details of managing labor, negotiating contracts, and navigating the often-opaque world of New York City municipal politics. These formative years fostered in Donald a lifelong obsession with the aesthetics of success and a firm belief that power was something to be seized, not requested.