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How old is Donald Trump? Donald Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, has entered his eight decade as he celebrates his 71st birthday today with his wife Melania Trump. The multi-billionaire and business magnate was born on June 14, 1946, in the Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Richmond Hill, New York. When Mr Trump entered the White House at the age of 70, he was the oldest US President to take up office, followed by Ronald Reagan who was 69 when inaugurated in 1981. Ivanka Trump, his eldest daughter tweeted a picture of her father holding her as a child ahead of the celebrations.

She tweeted: “Happy Birthday to my incredible father @realDonaldTrump. I hope that the year to come is your best yet!” How will Donald Trump celebrate his birthday? Little is known how the US President will celebrate his birthday bash, but judging by his past parties, the event could be observed with a pomp. This is also his first birthday since assuming office in the White House and could be an extra cause for celebration. Melania Trump and his youngest son Barron Trump have already travelled to Washington to move into the White House before the birthday.

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"Looking forward to the memories we'll make in our new home!" Mrs Trump tweeted on Sunday night. Last Thursday the First Lady asked her “loyal” friends to sign a birthday card for her husband and said: "I need your help to make it a birthday my husband will never forget." The Washington Post claims that Mr Trump’s 42nd birthday party in 1988, featured “a 15-foot spaceship zooming from the stage to hover amid smoke and flashing lasers above the birthday boy and his wife Ivana”. The spectacle was followed by a “light show” with the addition of dancers and magicians performing Michael Jackson's hit single Bad. “And of course, there was to be a telegram from President Reagan and video birthday cards from Liza Minnelli, Billy Crystal, Dennis Miller and Joe Piscopo,” the Post reports.

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Happy Birthday to my incredible father [Donald Trump]. I hope that the year to come is your best yet! Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's daughter

But his 50th birthday in 1996 trumped all previous events, when Mr Trump was presented with a “chocolate cake decorated with icing images of all of Trump’s buildings and a sugar figure of Don, dressed like Superman with a money sign on its chest”. The Post goes on to say that in 2005 the future President was given a "trashy flash of cleavage" by Baywatch star Pamela Anderson. President Trump’s birthday is also a cause for celebration worldwide for some, with the right wing fringe group Hindu Sena throwing a party for their “hero”. The India Times reported the the group threw a lavish party with cake and balloons and even had a photo gallery of Mr Trump’s most iconic moments.

REUTERS Mr Trump's birthday was also celebrated by a group in India

Vishnu Gupta, the chief of the group even “fed” a a piece of the cake to a poster of the “birthday boy”. But not everyone is celebrating and a so-called #SadBirthday party is being hosted by a group of protester called Rise and Resist. A press release from the group claims hundreds of protesters will gather outside Trump Tower in Manhattan to deliver the President planet tickets to Russia.

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