First of all, let me preface this by saying that those of you who know me know how I feel about the man pictured above and had to know that an article was forthcoming. Hey, at least I waited until my second article, right? OK, now back to business.

It’s not a secret that Donald Trump knows how to appeal to whichever audience he selects that day. He’s a businessman, an investor, and a television personality. He knows how to say whatever he wants whenever he wants. So let’s take a look at the man behind the hair.

While his fame has recently spiked, he’s been making news for much longer than some of us have even been alive. The first time Donald J. Trump made his appearance in The New York Times was October 1973 in an article titled “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City,” which you can find here. To quote the main point from the article:

“The government contended that Trump Management had refused to rent or negotiate rentals ‘because of race and color,’” The Times reported. “It also charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.”

At 27 years old, Mr. Trump had already gotten himself into trouble with racial discrimination. However, he turned the accusation right back around at the Department of Justice and sued them for $100 million (about $500 million today). Eventually a settlement was reached between the two where Trump was required to present all apartment vacancies every week for two years. Trump, a man unable to be seen as a loser even then, made it clear that although he was settling, he was not admitting guilt.

With this behind him, he had new plans. He moved onto the bankrupt Commodore Hotel, made it into the Grand Hyatt, and started his empire of The Trump Organization. With his roots planted firmly in the concrete jungle of Manhattan, he began his expansion at an alarming pace. When he acquired the Taj Mahal Casino in 1988, he found himself in crushing debt, and by 1991, he declared business bankruptcy. While getting back on his feet, he managed to get the Taj Mahal Casino out of bankruptcy while maintaining 50 percent ownership and lowering interest rates. He regrettably had to sell his toys, such as his airline, the Trump Shuttle, and his 282-foot mega yacht, the Trump Princess.

In 1999, the death of Trump’s father, Fred, presented Trump and his three siblings with a $250–300 million estate to be divided amongst them equally. In 2001, Trump began building his massive 72-story residential Trump World Tower along with Trump World Place, a multi-building section along the Hudson River. He also made the Trump International Hotel and Tower, which are used as a hotel and condominium. In New York City alone, Mr. Trump owns over two million square feet of commercial space.

If you haven’t already been appalled by his ability to plaster his name on everything, feel free to look here to see a compiled list of the rest around the world. Of course, with his recent shenanigans he's shot himself in the foot quite a bit. On that list, you will see quite a few out-of-country Trump organizations—specifically four organizations between Dubai and Istanbul. Well these managers aren’t too thrilled with his recent comments in the even bigger spotlight he’s put himself in. The Turkish owner of the Trump Towers in Istanbul was reported to have been exploring the legal ways to remove Trump’s name from the organization after his call to ban Muslim’s from the United States. More violently, in Dubai, Trump’s face was forcibly scrubbed off a billboard. Even one removal of his name should be concerning for the Republican candidate as the multi-billion dollar corporation in the Middle East is a region that he has pursued and claimed for years.

In addition to his real estate endeavors, Mr. Trump found himself in part or sole ownership of several well-known beauty pageants, such as Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA from 1996–2015. Why did it end in 2015? Well, as you may know, Mr. Trump is particularly skilled at offending multiple people in a very short amount of time. In 2015, NBC and Univision decided to ditch ties with Trump after his well-renowned campaign kickoff speech in June where he made his repugnant comment:

“The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems. [Applause] Thank you. It's true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you, they're not sending you...They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards, and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They’re sending us not the right people. It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably—probably— from the Middle East. But we don’t know. Because we have no protection, and we have no competence. We don’t know what’s happening. And it’s got to stop, and it’s got to stop fast.”

And there it is. The basis of his whole campaign. Right then and there in one minute and 47 seconds, he managed to condemn Mexico, South and Latin America, and the Middle East to our drug and crime problems and called them racists. After babbling on about what a bad, bad man President Obama is—eye roll—he wrapped it up by saying that the American dream is dead and that he will bring it back, and “make America great again.” What is the American Dream exactly, and why is it dead? Who killed it?

A great article talks about the constant change this dream our Founding Fathers created has gone through and how so many leaders of this great country have improved it. Our Founding Fathers placed it explicitly in our Constitution “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Of course, to them, that only meant white men who owned property.

However, each leader has made their mark on that definition. To list the monumental ones, President Lincoln extended it to Negro slaves. President Wilson followed with the 19th Amendment, allowing women to vote. President Johnson helped pass the Civil Rights act of 1964 to integrate schools regardless of race, protecting workers regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, and, added in 1967, those over 40. And finally, President Obama helped Americans achieve their own pursuit of happiness by legalizing marriage regardless of sexual orientation in 2015.

So the question begs to be asked: What would Donald Trump do to revive the American Dream? How would he make America great again by stripping it of its diversity, culture, and melting pot mantra? What could this man—this brilliant, hateful man—possibly do to improve the American dream our ancestors have been working to build for centuries?