{"id":358617,"date":"2026-09-28T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358617\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:46:07","slug":"donald-trump-was-a-queens-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358617\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump was a Queens boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is one of New York\u2019s 20 most influential politicians of the past 20 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/20th-anniversary\/2026\/09\/20-most-influential\/416254\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See the full list.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps in another universe, the Donald Trump story would\u2019ve turned out differently. A private school kid growing up in Queens starts out at his father\u2019s real estate company, which is focused on building <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/08\/10\/the-middle-class-housing-empire-donald-trump-abandoned-for-luxury-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">middle-class housing in the outer boroughs<\/a>. But the son has bigger dreams. He receives a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/10\/donald-trump-father-loan-1-million-dollars-215154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">small loan of $1 million<\/a>\u201d from his father and sets out for the bright lights of Manhattan. He gets the real estate empire, the casinos and the gold penthouse in the sky. A Queens boy made good. If only that\u2019s where the story ended. The mogul became a reality TV star and then rode down a golden escalator in 2015 to announce a run for president. He was the first New Yorker elected president since FDR. And the country has been bent to his whims ever since.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump\u2019s childhood home in Queens recently sold for $1.93 million.\" class=\"content-media content-img\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-603230036-iniline.jpg\" width=\"1500\"\/><br \/>\nTrump\u2019s childhood home in Queens recently sold for $1.93 million. \/ Drew Angerer\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is one of New York\u2019s 20 most influential politicians of the past 20 years. See the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[72903,153,9,24,49,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-358617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-20th-anniversary","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}