He attended a military academy for behavioral purposes in high school and got taller and tougher. Having a broomstick in a fight, he tried to push a cadet out a second-floor window, however was stopped by his friends.
He was Trump in a miniature, who has dominated the presidential election, more than a dozen of his childhood friends, and neighbors said in interviews. Even Trump has noticed the similarities between himself now and when he was the boy whom friends referred to as “Donny,” and “Flat Top” (for his hair). “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same,” said Trump to a biographer. “The …show more content…
In school, he misbehaved often that his initials became his friends’ shorthand for detention.
His father Fred Trump’s success as a real estate developer paid for the private schools and large house to which Donald and his siblings got used to. Donald learned that comfort could be gone if his behavior was poor. When 13, his parents sent him to military boarding school, where instructors struck him if he misbehaved.
“He was essentially banished from the family home,” said his biographer, Michael D’Antonio. “He hadn’t known anything but living with his family in a luxurious setting, and all of a sudden he’s sent away. That’s a rough way to start out in life.” Trump, in an interview with The Washington Post, described his years at the academy “would be good for me because I was rambunctious.”
“I was a wise guy, and they wanted to get me in line,” he said. “Thinking back, it was a very positive influence.”
The Queens neighborhood where young Donald grew up, Midland Parkway was credited to the wealth of its builder, Fred Trump.“No one had individualized license plates in those days,” said Ann Rudovsky, who grew up nearby. “Everyone talked about the Trumps because of the house and the