donald-trump-roots in Photos

Donald Trump is one of the most famous people in America, in part because he’s constantly reinventing himself. A New York real estate mogul, he became a tabloid celebrity for his flamboyant personal life, turned (see more photos after the cut)
his name into a brand for everything from steaks to vodka to casinos, then became a reality TV star and a politician. Despite his years in the New York media spotlight, Trump’s time as the Republican presidential nominee has brought his entire life under scrutiny. TIME went through the archives to find rare photos from throughout his life and career.

                                                   Donald Trump at age four.

                                    Donald Trump, left, in a family photograph.
 

 A view of Donald Trump’s childhood home, seen on September 12, 2016. in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York City.

 Donald Trump in his Senior Year at New York Military Academy, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY in 1964.

Donald Trump in his Senior Year at New York Military Academy, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY in 1964.

 Donald Trump and his father, Fred, in 1973 at Trump Village, Fred’s last project, in Brooklyn. Donald Trump was an apprentice to his father at the time.

                          Donald Trump holds his son, Donald Trump Jr., as a baby, circa 1978

 Ivana and Donald Trump relax in the living room of their Manhattan apartment on March 12, 1979.

 Donald Trump in 1980, with a model of Trump Tower, shortly before he acquired 100 Central Park South.

Donald Trump on the phone in his car after announcing plans for development of the West Side of midtown Manhattan at the Hyatt Hotel on 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, in New York, on Nov. 18, 1985.

                                                     The Trump Family, circa 1986.

Donald Trump poses with about half of the competing State Misses on board his yacht in Atlantic City, N.J., on Sept. 4, 1988.

Donald Trump during the opening of his Taj Mahal Casino on April 5, 1990 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

 Donald Trump, left, sweeps his bride, Marla, off her feet to kiss her in front of photographers after their wedding ceremony at New York’s Plaza Hotel, on Dec. 20, 1992.

Donald Trump poses for photos outside the New York Stock Exchange after the listing of his stock on Wed., June 7, 1995 in New York.

 Portrait of Marla Maples and her husband, Donald Trump, with their daughter Tiffany, as they pose together at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, 1996.