The Donald Trump you first came across depends largely on the decade in which you spent your formative years.
If you were raised in the 1970s, it will be the fledgling New York property developer working on renovating some of the city's most iconic buildings with what he would later describe as a "small loan of a million dollars" from his father.
In the '80s, the now-accomplished businessman became widely known for his New York Times bestseller, The Art of the Deal, in which he detailed the path to his riches.
The '90s made Trump a fixture of popular culture as the owner of the Miss Universe beauty pageant and a cameo actor in some of the decade’s most popular TV shows and movies, including Home Alone 2, Sex and the City, and the Fresh Prince of Bel Air .
By the turn of the millennium, Trump reached global stardom with the TV show The Apprentice. His signature phrase, "You're fired", aimed at losing contestants on the show, took on a life of its own as one of the staple catchphrases of the reality TV era.
The jump between business and politics has never been grand, and Trump flirted with the idea of several political candidacies from the '80s onwards.
For two decades from 1988, the property mogul drifted between the Democrats and the Republicans but finally settled on the Republican

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