98-559: Eric Frederick Trump (born January 6, 1984) is an American businessman, activist, and former reality television presenter. He is the third child and second son of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Ivana Trump . Trump is a trustee and executive vice president of his father's business, the Trump Organization , running it alongside his older brother Donald Jr. He also served as a boardroom judge on his father's television series The Apprentice . During their father's presidency,
196-553: A charity, however Melania Trump had planned to hang it in the club's boardroom or conference room, and the artist later stated he believed it was at the clubhouse. Although the painting was purchased at a charity auction, where half of the Trump Foundation's check went to the charity, in September 2016 an IRS director deemed Trump to have violated IRS rules and President Barack Obama publicly criticized Trump's purchase. The golf club
294-695: A compromise agreement in July 2021, the assessed value was reduced by 30%. In October, the district attorney for Westchester County subpoenaed the property-tax records, indicating "signaling a previously unknown criminal inquiry into the Trump Organization." It is very likely to go to trial with the others. In 2011, notable members included former Yankees manager Joe Torre , and actors Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood . Around 2003, members included Rudy Giuliani , Jack Nicholson , Hugh Grant , George Steinbrenner , and Regis Philbin . Visiting players include Ron Howard , Regis Philbin , and Bobby Bonilla , who came for
392-592: A fake video that purported to show Trump ballots being burned. On the day of the January 6 storming of the United States Capitol , Trump spoke at the "Save America" rally alongside his wife Lara and Donald Trump Jr., among others. Trump was later among those who advanced the conspiracy theory that people associated with antifa were responsible for the attack. On July 4, 2013, Trump became engaged to his longtime girlfriend Lara Lea Yunaska , an associate producer on
490-437: A great service to the country—I will give him free lifetime golf at any one of my courses!" In 2015, the club sued the town of Ossining to lower its worth from $ 13.5 million to $ 1.4 million in order to reduce property and school taxes; local residents complained because their own taxes would rise. In 2016, the club revised its claims to $ 9 million, closer to the 2014 town estimate of $ 14.3 million. In June 2017, Trump disclosed
588-523: A large project would congest streets with construction vehicles and rip up the landscape. In redesigning the club and its course, Trump hired golf course architect Jim Fazio, brother of Tom Fazio in the same profession. Around the same time, the workmen resodded a village soccer field and assisted in constructing a new veterans' memorial in Briarcliff. He also had the current 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m ) white clapboard and fieldstone clubhouse built on
686-604: A lot of our assets", and that "we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia". In October 2019, Eric Trump complained of the Bidens, "Why is it that every family goes into politics and enriches themselves?". Shortly before he made that statement, President Trump had decided that the G-7 summit would be held at the Trump Doral resort, owned by the Trump Organization. President Trump reversed his decision amid bipartisan condemnation. A ruling which
784-532: A minute. In 2003 Trump tried to move the Sybase Classic , a LPGA tournament, from Wykagyl Country Club to Trump's club for 2007; the Wykagyl lease would run out in that year. Briarcliff Manor's mayor Peter Chatzky was opposed to the plan; Trump attempted to persuade the mayor to talk to his wife, Jean Chatzky , about the financial benefit of hosting the tournament, adding that village residents would be hired for
882-547: A new request to bring a LPGA or PGA tournament to the club. A storm in June 2011 caused public utilities including the Briarcliff library and Law Memorial Park's public pool and playing fields to be flooded. When Trump had renovated the course, his workers made unauthorized changes to its drainage system, which made the course look and play better for golfers. The alterations lowered the system's water capacity and thus raised water levels by about six feet. The Trump Organization met with
980-721: A placard emblazoned with "Office of the President Elect" and used the same term on his website. President-elect Donald Trump did likewise on January 11, 2017. The Presidential Transition Act of 1963 further authorizes the Administrator of the General Services Administration to issue a "letter of ascertainment" even before the December vote of the Electoral College; this letter identifies the apparent winners of
1078-926: A possibility on several other occasions as well. In January 1853, President-elect Franklin Pierce survived a train accident that killed his 11-year-old son. Four years later, President-elect James Buchanan battled a serious illness contracted at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C., as he planned his inauguration. Additionally, on February 15, 1933, just 23 days after the Twentieth Amendment went into effect, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt in Miami, Florida. The amendment's provision moving inauguration day from March 4 to January 20, would not take effect until 1937, but its three provisions about
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#17329271955351176-411: A president-elect went into effect immediately. If the assassination attempt on Roosevelt had been successful then, pursuant to Section 3 of the amendment, Vice President-elect John Nance Garner would have been sworn in as president on Inauguration Day, and the vice presidency would have remained vacant for the entire 4-year term. Since the widespread adoption of the telegraph in the mid-19th century,
1274-562: A second term are generally not referred to as presidents -elect , as they are already in office and are not waiting to become president. A sitting vice president who is elected president is referred to as president-elect. The use of the term dates back to at least the 1790s, with letters written by multiple of the Founding Fathers of the United States having used the term in relation to the 1796 United States presidential election . There
1372-438: A teleprompter" when he was not. Following his father's electoral defeat Eric Trump has engaged in attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election , falsely calling the election result a "fraud" and threatening Republican lawmakers to overturn the result. While ballots were being counted in the 2020 election, Trump made baseless claims intended to cast doubt on Pennsylvania's ballot-counting process. He shared
1470-521: A value of the club at over $ 50 million, with $ 9.7 million in personal income in 2016. Daniel Scavino began working at Briar Hall Country Club as a caddie in 1990, while in high school. He was promoted several times, including to general manager of the club after Trump's purchase. After serving as social media director for Trump's presidential campaign, he became Assistant to the President and Director of Social Media in December 2016. Trump's candidacy for
1568-407: A week. Eric Trump and his foundation received scrutiny from the press in June 2017 after it was revealed that the foundation was funneling money to the Trump Organization through its charity tournaments, held at Trump National Golf Club Westchester and other sites. A few days later, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was reported to be investigating Eric Trump's foundation and its events at
1666-459: Is a private golf club in Briarcliff Manor, New York . The 140-acre (57 ha) course has eighteen holes, with a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m ) clubhouse. Founded in 1922 as Briarcliff Country Club , it later operated as Briar Hills Country Club and Briar Hall Golf and Country Club. Donald Trump , the former president of the United States , purchased the property in 1996 and renamed
1764-522: Is an "avid outdoorsman" and big-game hunter . President-elect of the United States The president-elect of the United States is the candidate who has presumptively won the United States presidential election and is awaiting inauguration to become the president . There is no explicit indication in the U.S. Constitution as to when that person actually becomes president-elect, although
1862-413: Is disputed: Some commentators doubt whether an official president- and vice president-elect exist prior to the electoral votes being counted and announced by Congress on January 6, maintaining that this is a problematic contingency lacking clear constitutional or statutory direction. Others assert that once a majority of electoral votes has been cast for one ticket, then the recipients of these votes become
1960-536: Is evidence from some of these letters that, as is the case today, it may have been acceptable to apply the term to individuals that appeared to have won election, even before the full results were known. Major news publications began to regularly use the term in the latter half of the 19th century. With the 1933 ratification of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution , the term
2058-491: Is held in early November, formal voting by the members of the Electoral College takes place in mid-December, and the presidential inauguration (at which the oath of office is taken) is then usually held on January 20. The only constitutional provision pertaining directly to the person who has won the presidential election is their availability to take the oath of office. The Presidential Transition Act of 1963 empowers
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#17329271955352156-610: Is still able to assume the presidency, then the running mate is to become the president-elect with the electors being directed to vote for the former vice presidential nominee for President. The party's national committee, in consultation with the new president-elect, would then select a replacement to receive the electoral votes for Vice President. If the apparent winner dies between the College's December vote and its counting in Congress in January,
2254-439: The de facto president-elect has been known beyond a reasonable doubt, with only a few exceptions, within a few days (or even hours) of the polls closing on election day. As a result, incoming presidents gained valuable preparation time prior to assuming office. Recent presidents-elect have assembled transition teams to prepare for a smooth transfer of power following the inauguration . Outgoing presidents have cooperated with
2352-407: The 2016 United States presidential election affected the club; Horace Greeley High School used the facility for its annual proms, which was protested by its students in late 2015 due to its connection to Trump as a political candidate. The location for the 2016 prom has yet to be changed by student decision. In the following year, it was reported that Pleasantville High School 's graduating class
2450-485: The General Services Administration to determine who the apparent election winner is, and provides for a timely and organized sequence for the federal government's transition planning in cooperation with the president-elect's transition team; it also includes the provision of office space for the "apparent successful candidates". By convention, during the period between the election and the inauguration,
2548-577: The House of Representatives in a run-off contingent election . Similarly, if no vice-presidential candidate reaches that threshold, the election for the vice president is decided by the Senate. Although neither the Constitution nor any federal law requires electors to vote for the candidate who wins their state's popular vote, some states have enacted laws mandating that they vote for the state vote winner. In 2020,
2646-479: The Twelfth Amendment stipulates that all electoral ballots cast shall be counted, presumably even those for a dead candidate. The U.S. House committee reporting on the proposed Twentieth Amendment said the "Congress would have 'no discretion' [and] 'would declare that the deceased candidate had received a majority of the votes.'" The Constitution did not originally include the term president-elect . The term
2744-455: The Twentieth Amendment uses the term "president-elect", thereby giving the term constitutional basis. It is assumed the Congressional certification of votes cast by the Electoral College of the United States – occurring after the third day of January following the swearing-in of the new Congress, per provisions of the Twelfth Amendment – unambiguously confirms the successful candidate as
2842-455: The 1820s; no state has done so since the 1860s. Several states have enacted or proposed laws that would give their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote regardless of the result of their statewide vote, but these laws will not come into force unless states with a majority of the electoral votes collectively enact such laws, which as of 2018 has yet to occur. On the Monday after
2940-447: The Constitution. Currently, in every state, an election by the people is the method employed for the choice of the members of the Electoral College. The Constitution, however, does not specify any procedure that states must follow in choosing electors. A state could, for instance, prescribe that they be elected by the state legislature or even chosen by the state's governor. The latter was the norm in early presidential elections prior to
3038-653: The Eric Trump Foundation in the past, but there is no evidence of that. When The Washington Post requested evidence, Trump appeared to backtrack and refused to give details. In June 2017, the New York State Attorney General 's Office confirmed that it had begun an inquiry into the Eric Trump Foundation, based on issues the Forbes investigation raised. The investigation was reported as ongoing in December 2018. Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign
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3136-475: The Marine Midland Bank, which then sold the property to Trump. Trump bought Briar Hall Country Club for $ 7.5 million in the foreclosure in December 1996 and ran the club until 1999, until he closed the property to begin its redevelopment. The first general manager of the club, Chief Operating Officer Carolyn Kepcher , later became co-host on Trump's television show The Apprentice . She was fired from
3234-538: The November general election; this enables the president-elect, vice president-elect, and transition teams for the purposes of receiving federal transition funding, office space and communications services prior to the beginning of the new administration on January 20. There are no firm rules on how the GSA determines the president-elect. Typically, the GSA chief might make the decision after reliable news organizations have declared
3332-513: The Presidency going to the speaker of the House of Representatives , followed by the president pro tempore of the Senate and various Cabinet officers. Horace Greeley is the only presidential candidate to win pledged electors in the general election and then die before the presidential inauguration; he secured 66 votes in 1872 and died before the Electoral College met. Greeley had already clearly lost
3430-751: The Presidential Transition Act of 1963 (P.L. 88-277), amended by the Presidential Transitions Effectiveness Act of 1998 (P.L. 100-398), the Presidential Transition Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-293), and the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-283), the president-elect is entitled to request and receive certain privileges from the General Services Administration (GSA) as they prepare to assume office. Section 3 of
3528-618: The Presidential Transition Act of 1963 was enacted to help smooth transitions between incoming and outgoing presidential administrations. To that end, provisions such as office space , telecommunication services , transition staff members are allotted, upon request, to the president-elect, though the Act grants the president-elect no official powers and makes no mention of an "Office of the President-Elect." In 2008, President-elect Barack Obama gave numerous speeches and press conferences in front of
3626-408: The Trump Organization , where about a dozen employees met him at the finished clubhouse to negotiate reducing his fees. They pressured him into sending a reduced bill, of $ 50,000 instead of $ 140,000. After the organization failed to pay the bill, Tesoro met with Trump who convinced him to accept only $ 25,000 for his services. The Clinton campaign used the story as part of its effort to demonstrate that
3724-480: The Trump Organization harms small businesses. Later during Trump's campaign, in September 2016, The Washington Post reported that a six-foot (1.8 m) painting of Trump may be on display at the club. Trump had purchased Michael Israel's work for $ 200,000 in 2007 through his charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation . According to IRS regulations, the painting would have to be used for a charitable purpose, or donated to
3822-480: The Trump family dynamics and whether Eric and his brother, Don Jr., can be truly independent of their father." The foundation says that relevant donors were informed that donations would be redirected. The Eric Trump Foundation had advertised that its golf charity events raised money exclusively for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , with 95–100% of the money raised going toward the charity. Public tax records show that
3920-521: The Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter —Eric Trump strongly criticized Hunter, accusing him of nepotism. Eric claimed that, unlike Hunter, "When my father became president, our family stopped doing international business deals". But when Donald Trump became president, rather than place his assets in a blind trust, he made Eric a top executive in the family business, which continued to operate and promote business transactions across
4018-411: The ballots are accepted without objections, the presidential and vice-presidential candidates winning at least 270 electoral votes—a majority of the total number of electoral votes—are certified as having won the election by the incumbent vice president , in their capacity as president of the Senate. If no presidential candidate reaches the 270-vote threshold, the election for the president is decided by
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4116-539: The brothers invested in foreign countries and collected payments in their U.S. properties from foreign governments, despite having pledged not to do so. Eric Trump was born in New York City and attended Trinity School . His parents divorced in 1990, when he was six years old. As a boy, Trump spent his summers in the Czech countryside near Zlín with his maternal grandparents. His grandfather, Miloš Zelníček, who died in 1990,
4214-764: The charity has done a great deal of good, including an intensive-care unit that opened in 2015 at St. Jude and funding cancer research. According to Trump, the foundation's expense ratio is 12.6%, and "at no time did the Trump Organization profit in any way from the foundation or any of its activities". Forbes also reported that more than $ 500,000 of the money donated for cancer patients "was re-donated to other charities, many of which were connected to Trump family members or interests, including at least four groups that subsequently paid to hold golf tournaments at Trump courses". According to Forbes , "All of this seems to defy federal tax rules and state laws that ban self-dealing and misleading donors. It also raises larger questions about
4312-602: The club after its county, Westchester , in a similar manner to his other golf properties . He had the clubhouse and course rebuilt for its 2002 reopening; the course was designed by Jim Fazio. Donald Trump served as president over Trump National Golf Club LLC (managing the Westchester club) from August 2000 until January 19, 2017, the day before his inauguration. The club had its origins around 1895, with Briarcliff founder Walter W. Law 's private nine-hole course on his estate, which became available to Briarcliff Lodge guests, and
4410-673: The club partly "because he knew Bill Clinton would need a place to play". Part of the Clintons' gift for Bill's 65th birthday was a round of golf at Trump National with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. The golf club is Eric Trump 's home course. He raises about $ 3 million each year in an event there for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital . Mariano Rivera , the New York Knicks , and the Rangers also run charity tournaments there. At one time, Donald Trump had scheduled to be there himself at least once
4508-566: The club to fully pay it within five years. Annual dues were $ 19,400 a year. The club is located on about 140 acres (60 ha) adjacent to Briarcliff Manor's central business district and in a residential area near Pace University 's former Briarcliff campus off Pine Road. The property contains "The Residences at Trump National Golf Club", a series of sixteen attached townhouses ranging in size from 3,100–3,400 square feet (290–320 m ) and which were designed by William Devereaux & Associates. Plans exist for an additional 71 condominiums;
4606-469: The constitutionality of these laws was upheld by the United States Supreme Court. Historically, there have only been a few instances of " faithless electors " casting their ballots for a candidate to whom they were not pledged, and such instances have never altered the final outcome of a presidential election. Two congressional reports found that the president-elect is the eventual winner of
4704-458: The contributions it received increased from $ 1.8 million in 2015 to $ 3.2 million in 2016. The foundation gave $ 2,910,000 in donations to St. Jude and several smaller donations to other charities while paying a total of $ 145,000 to various for-profit properties the Trump family owned. In 2016, the fundraising president of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital stated that the Eric Trump Foundation had raised and donated $ 16.3 million to
4802-494: The course's reopening in 2002, and professional golfer Nick Faldo . Other visitors include Michael Jordan , former New York City mayors Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, and Billy Crystal , who joined Trump and members Bill Clinton and Joe Torre for the 2008 Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation Golf Classic at the club. Former US President Bill Clinton became a member of the club in May 2003. Donald Trump has said that he bought
4900-434: The donations went to the Trump Organization for the use of Trump's Westchester golf course , and "Golf charity experts say the listed expenses defy any reasonable cost justification for a one-day golf tournament". According to a former foundation director, "We did have to cover the expenses. ...The charity had grown so much that the Trump Organization couldn't absorb all of those costs anymore." Forbes acknowledged that
4998-463: The election and most of his votes inconsequentially scattered to other candidates. The closest instance of there being no qualified person to take the presidential oath of office on Inauguration Day happened in 1877 when the disputed election between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was decided and certified in Hayes' favor just three days before the inauguration (then March 4). It might have been
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#17329271955355096-414: The end of a four-year presidential term and the beginning of the next four-year presidential term. It is a "constitutional mystery" about who (if anyone) holds the presidency during the brief period on Inauguration Day between noon and the swearing-in of a new president (or the renewed swearing-in of a re-elected president) approximately five minutes later. One view is that "a President-elect does not assume
5194-420: The event of a nominee's death, either before or after the general election. If the apparent winner of the general election dies before the Electoral College votes in December the electors would likely be expected to endorse whatever new nominee their national party selects as a replacement. The rules of both major parties stipulate that if the apparent winner dies under such circumstances and his or her running mate
5292-530: The event. A Trump Organization vice president suggested donating some proceeds to the Briarcliff Manor Public Library 's then-proposed expansion or toward improving a village baseball field. The club's special-use permit with the village restricted the course to 300 people and banned large-scale tournaments from taking place there. The discussion between the Trump Organization and village government stopped that year, however in 2004, Trump submitted
5390-533: The family business while a high school student. Trump is the Trump Organization's executive vice president of development and acquisitions. He worked with his sister, Ivanka , to redesign and renovate Trump National Doral and its Blue Monster course in Miami, Florida. In 2013, Trump received Wine Enthusiast Magazine ' s "Rising Star of the Year" Award. Amid the Trump–Ukraine scandal —where President Trump asked
5488-445: The flooding was caused by rocks and trees at washed down the hill from the golf club. When President Obama was in Westchester in 2014, his staff attempted to schedule visits to local golf clubs including Trump National, none of which wanted to close their courses for the president to play. Trump replied to NBC 4 New York 's report of the news with a widely circulated and publicized tweet—"If Obama resigns from office NOW, thereby doing
5586-586: The foundation applied significant amounts of the funds raised to pay costs of the events to the Trump Organization for use of its facilities.Additionally, the foundation donated to charitable causes other than St. Jude and made grants to several other charities, including at least three animal welfare organizations and the American Society for Enology and Viticulture , a California wine industry organization. Trump said in July 2016 that Donald Trump had made "hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal donations" to
5684-641: The foundation committed to raising $ 20 million over ten years for the naming rights to the new Eric Trump Foundation Surgery & ICU Center in the Kay Research and Care Center, a $ 198 million tower that opened on February 19, 2015, on the St. Jude campus. St. Jude stated in 2013 that the 7th Annual Eric Trump Foundation Golf Invitational on September 9, 2013, at the Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff, New York, had "... raised $ 1.5 million for
5782-462: The hospital since the charity's foundation. In June 2017, Forbes reported that the Eric Trump Foundation shifted money intended to go to cancer patients to the Trumps' businesses. Eric Trump had asserted that his foundation got to use Trump Organization assets for free ("We get to use our assets 100% free of charge"), but that appears not to be true. According to Forbes , more than $ 1.2 million of
5880-493: The hospital since the charity's inception ten years earlier. On December 21, 2016, Trump announced that he would stop active fundraising for the Eric Trump Foundation as of December 31. The move came to avoid the appearance that donors were using him to gain access to his father after he won the presidential election. The foundation's 2016 tax return, filed under its alternative name the Curetivity Foundation, shows that
5978-501: The kids of St. Jude", for a total of $ 6 million since 2006. On December 30, 2016, Richard C. Shadyac Jr., the president of the fundraising organization of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital , wrote the Eric Trump Foundation a letter stating that the foundation and "... related efforts, such as an Eric Trump Foundation-affiliated team that participates in the New York City Marathon", had raised $ 16.3 million for
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#17329271955356076-461: The majority of electoral ballots cast in December. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress , in its 2004 report "Presidential and Vice Presidential Succession: Overview and Current Legislation," discussed the question of when candidates who have received a majority of electoral votes become president-elect. The report notes that the constitutional status of the president-elect
6174-494: The majority of electoral votes, or the person who has been chosen by the House of Representatives in the event that the election is thrown into the House. It is immaterial whether or not the votes have been counted, for the person becomes the president-elect as soon as the votes are cast. Scholars have noted that the national committees of the Democratic and Republican parties have adopted rules for selecting replacement candidates in
6272-475: The members of the Electoral College , the body that directly elects the president, must be "appointed, in each state, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year". Thus, all states appoint their electors on the same date, in November, once every four years. However, the manner of appointment of the electors is determined by the law of each state, subject to the restrictions stipulated by
6370-467: The next nine on June 29, 2002. The club had a total cost of $ 30 million or $ 40 million, and was claimed to be the largest excavation project in Westchester County's history, with about 3,000,000-cubic-yard (2,300,000 m ) of earth moved. The thirteenth hole cost Trump $ 7 million, surrounded by an artificial 101-foot (31 m) black granite waterfall, which pumps 5,000 US gallons (18,900 L)
6468-552: The oath"; in other words, the president "must complete the oath before she can constitutionally tap the power of the presidency." The president-elect and vice president-elect receive mandatory protection from the United States Secret Service . Since the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy , major-party candidates also receive such protection during the election campaign. Notes: Trump National Golf Club Westchester Trump National Golf Club Westchester
6566-422: The official "president-elect" under the U.S. Constitution. As an unofficial term, president-elect has been used by the media since at least the latter half of the 19th century and was in use by politicians since at least the 1790s. Politicians and the media have applied the term to the projected winner, even on election night, and very few who turned out to lose have been referred to as such. While Election Day
6664-582: The powers of the Chief Executive"; the view can be partially based on the fact that the oath is not mentioned in the eligibility requirements for the presidency set forth elsewhere in Article II. A third, intermediate view (the "primed presidency" view) is that "a President-elect automatically becomes President upon the start of his new term, but is unable to 'enter on the Execution of his Office' until he recites
6762-425: The president- and vice president-elect, notwithstanding the fact that the electoral votes are not counted and certified until the following January 6. The CRS report quotes the 1933 U.S. House committee report accompanying the Twentieth Amendment as endorsing the latter view: It will be noted that the committee uses the term "president-elect" in its generally accepted sense, as meaning the person who has received
6860-435: The president-elect actively prepares to carry out the duties of the office of president and works with the outgoing (or lame duck ) president to ensure a smooth handover of presidential responsibilities. Since 2008, incoming presidents have also used the name Office of the President-Elect to refer to their transition organization, despite a lack of formal description for it. Incumbent presidents who have won re-election for
6958-468: The president-elect dies before noon on January 20, the vice president-elect becomes president-elect. In cases where there is no president-elect or vice president-elect, the amendment also gives the Congress the authority to declare an acting president until such time as there is a president or vice president. At this point the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 would apply, with the office of
7056-423: The president-elect on important policy matters during the last two months of the president's term to ensure a smooth transition and continuity of operations that have significant national interests. Before the ratification of the Twentieth Amendment in 1933, which moved the start of the presidential term to January, the president-elect did not assume office until March, four months after the popular election. Under
7154-498: The property. At one time, due to residents' criticism, the clubhouse was reduced to 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m ), eliminating guest rooms and special event halls. It was designed by Robert Lamb Hart Planners & Architects, and included three stories with lockers, a 150-seat restaurant, and top-floor lounge. Other difficulties with the club's plans arose; the village planning board recognized villager concerns over golf tournaments, membership requirements, and pesticide use. And at
7252-555: The results of the popular vote that decided the appointment of the electors, although this information is not constitutionally required. The electors in each state and of the District of Columbia then send the certificates of vote, with the enclosed certificates of ascertainment, to the president of the U.S. Senate . The electoral votes are counted in a joint session of Congress in early January (on January 6 as required by 3 U.S. Code, Chapter 1, or an alternative date set by statute), and if
7350-456: The second Wednesday in December, the electors of each state meet in their respective state capitals (and the electors of the District of Columbia meet in the federal capital), and in those meetings the electors cast their votes for president and vice president of the United States. At the conclusion of their meetings, the electors of each state and of the District of Columbia then execute a "certificate of vote" (in several original copies), declaring
7448-586: The show and management position in August 2006. On March 16, 1999, Briarcliff was operating its mayoral election, and incumbent mayor Keith Austin ran unopposed. Write-ins supporting lawyer Richard Mattiaccio prompted a conflict involving hundreds of residents, which led to one arrest. The event took place near the polls at the Village Hall; Mattiaccio had gained supporters by criticizing Austin's weak opposition to Trump's club reconstruction plans. Many residents believed
7546-423: The site was approved for 87 home sites in 1987. The club also includes a member restaurant, which serves Kobe beef burgers, tuna flown in daily from Honolulu, and Trump Ice bottled water. Every year since 2015, the Trump Organization has challenged the local tax assessment which is based on the property's value. Local entity officials assessed it at $ 15 million, while the organization put it at $ 1.4 million. In
7644-548: The spread of COVID-19 were a strategy by the Democrats and the Joe Biden campaign intended to prevent his father's reelection by depriving him of the ability to conduct large campaign rallies. Trump said that after election day, "Coronavirus will magically all of a sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen". In September 2020, Trump spread a false video that appeared to show Biden "being caught red-handed using
7742-409: The status and powers of the President until he or she takes the oath"; under this view, "a person must reach before he or she can assume and exercise the powers of President." A second, opposite view is that the taking of the oath is a "ceremonial reminder of both the President's duty to execute the law and the status of the Constitution as supreme law" and is not a prerequisite to a person "exercis[ing]
7840-649: The syndicated television news program Inside Edition . They married on November 8, 2014, at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida . The couple's first child, Eric "Luke" Trump, a son, was born in September 2017, and their daughter, Carolina Dorothy, in August 2019. In April 2021, Trump and his wife acquired a $ 3.2 million home in Jupiter, Florida . In March 2022, Trump joined other members of his family in switching his official residency from New York to Florida. Trump
7938-577: The time of the club's reconstruction, Trump had three other golf clubs planned, including one in Seven Springs , an area within three towns which would require approval from all three, and one in the French Hill section of Yorktown. Trump later dropped all of the plans, calling Westchester County "the toughest place to build on the planet". The first head golf professional was Frank Graniero. The club's first nine holes opened on April 15, 2002, followed by
8036-426: The village over the issue, though it did not take corrective actions. After negotiations ended, the village billed the club $ 238,353. The Trump Organization blamed the flooding on a village drainage pipe which lacked a grate, and blamed the conflict on then-Briarcliff mayor William Vescio, who owns a company that previously came into conflict with Trump. Vescio denied the relation to the previous conflict and claimed that
8134-478: The vote count in each meeting. To each certificate of vote, a certificate of ascertainment is annexed. Each certificate of ascertainment is the official document (usually signed by the governor of the state or by the state's secretary of state) that declares the names of the electors, certifying their appointment as members of the Electoral College. Given that in all states the electors are currently chosen by popular vote, each certificate of ascertainment also declares
8232-470: The winner or following a concession by the loser. Article II, Section 1, clause 8 of the Constitution provides that "Before he enter on the Execution of his Office" the president shall swear or affirm to "faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States" and "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." The Twentieth Amendment provides that noon on January 20 marks both
8330-459: The workplace, he hoped she would find another company to work for or switch careers. Trump said, "Ivanka is a strong, powerful woman; she wouldn't allow herself to be objected [ recte subjected] to it". On May 28, 2024, an email was shown during defense closing arguments in Donald Trump's New York criminal trial which revealed that longtime Trump Organization comptroller Jeffrey McConnery, who
8428-493: The world. PolitiFact and the Washington Post fact-checker rated Eric Trump's assertion that the Trump family "got out of all international business" false. PolitiFact noted that not only had the Trump family engaged in international business dealings since Trump became president, but that some of the president's children, including Eric, had openly celebrated their international business activities during that time. In 2017, it
8526-558: Was a topic of discussion in 2019, in a trial against the now-defunct Trump Foundation, where the president admitted the foundation had been used to settle legal obligations of the club. In 2001, annual membership dues were stated to be $ 9,000 per member or $ 12,000 for a family, with an initial deposit of $ 250,000. Before the 2008 recession, initiation fees were $ 100,000 to $ 150,000. As of late 2015, initiation fees were down to $ 50,000. Around that time, many new members were reportedly not charged an initiation fee or were no longer required by
8624-508: Was among Briar Hill's founders. Among the club's directors were Henry Law and his son Theodore Gilman Law; Gene Sarazen was the club's golf professional in 1923–24, followed by 1952 PGA Champion Jim Turnesa . At the time of Briar Hall's 1996 sale, the club had an 18-hole, 6,313 yards (5,773 m) golf course and 78,782 square feet (7,319 m ) clubhouse, seven tennis courts, an in-ground swimming pool, pro shop, maintenance building, and pool house. Briar Hall had been taken over by
8722-567: Was an engineer; his grandmother, Maria, worked in a shoe factory. His grandfather taught Trump to hunt and fish. In 2002, Trump graduated from the Hill School . He graduated with a degree in finance and management from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Trump started accompanying his father to job sites and negotiations from a young age. He has said he mowed lawns, laid tiles, and did other work on his father's properties in his youth. Trump briefly considered other careers but decided to join
8820-498: Was considering changing its prom venue from Trump's club as well. The graduating class voted, 97–44, to keep the venue. On June 7, 2016, Trump gave his nomination victory speech at the clubhouse; he had just won the Republican primaries . In July 2016, during Trump's presidential campaign, his opponent Hillary Clinton released a campaign video of one of the club's architects. The architect, Andrew Tesoro, described his dealings with
8918-495: Was formally launched on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City. Eric was a key advisor, fundraiser, and campaign surrogate during the campaign. He and his wife made campaign appearances in numerous states on his father's behalf. On August 2, 2016, in a television appearance on CBS This Morning , Trump was asked to comment on his father's controversial statement to USA Today the previous day in which he said that if his daughter were ever subjected to sexual harassment in
9016-603: Was handed down on February 16, 2024 barred Trump from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York, including the Trump Organization, for two years. Trump was a boardroom judge on his father's reality television series The Apprentice (2010–2015). He appeared in 23 episodes. In 2007, Trump established the Eric Trump Foundation, a public charity to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee. On November 30, 2012,
9114-453: Was introduced through the Twentieth Amendment , ratified in 1933, which contained a provision addressing the unavailability of the president-elect to take the oath of office on Inauguration Day. Section 3 provides that if there is no president-elect on January 20, or the president-elect "fails to qualify", the vice president-elect would become acting president on January 20 until there is a qualified president. The section also provides that if
9212-412: Was noted for its design and spaciousness. In 1936, A. W. Tillinghast redesigned the course. In 1948, Henry Law's son Theodore sold the club to local businessmen who renamed it Briar Hall Golf and Country Club. The 1964 Metropolitan Open was hosted at Briar Hall; Jack Patroni won the championship. In 1980, ownership of the club changed hands again. Henry Law, a son of village founder Walter W. Law,
9310-581: Was now used in the Constitution of the United States . Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution , along with the Twelfth and Twentieth Amendments directly address and govern the process for electing the nation's president. Presidential elections are further regulated by various federal and state laws. Under the 1887 Electoral Count Act , the presidential electors,
9408-453: Was previously acknowledged to have organized Trump Sr.'s reimbursement payments to Michael Cohen following the hush honey payments Cohen made to Stormy Daniels , sought approval from both Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. It has been acknowledged that Eric Trump had signed some of the reimbursement checks to Cohen as well. Trump has promoted several conspiracy theories . In May 2020, Trump said on Fox News that stay-at-home orders to combat
9506-444: Was reported that Eric Trump had said that "we don't rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia", and that "we've got some guys that really, really love golf, and they're really invested in our programmes. We just go there all the time." In 2008, Trump said that "in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of
9604-479: Was then known as the Briarcliff Golf Club. In 1922, Devereux Emmet designed a course across the street with eighteen holes, and thus Briarcliff Country Club was founded that year. The name was changed in 1927 to avoid confusion, to Briar Hills Country Club. Briar Hills opened in May 1929 with a new clubhouse; construction began in May 1928 and utilized local stones for the building's exterior. The interior
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