You may not have known it, but Donald Trump was shipped off to military school, a decision made by his father when the future president was only 13 years old. The environment was a hard shift for the multi-millionaire's son, according to Trump biographer Timothy O'Brien (via PBS ), "He said to me that when he arrived at the military academy, for the first time in his life, someone slapped him in the face when he got out of line." Trump took this violent interaction as a means to build a foundation of school behavior built on aggression and power.
Marc Fisher, another Trump biographer, said of the president's school persona, "Donald Trump yelled at his classmates. He pushed them around," — a sentiment that would be further supported by an old classmate of the former "Apprentice" host,

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