While Mr. Trump was busy with real estate business, organizing beauty pageants..., Mr. Biden was involved in politics. Mr. Trump has been president for 47 months, Mr. Biden has been in politics for 47 years. Now they are facing each other at the age of 70.
Current US President Donald Trump (74 years old) and Democratic opponent Joe Biden (77 years old) have more than 7 decades of personal and professional experience.
Each person has a different path in the early stages, but in the end they aim for the same goal: Entering the White House, leading America.
The early years
Born after World War II in June 1946, Donald Trump (full name: Donald John Trump) is the fourth child of New York real estate tycoon Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.
Donald Trump worked several jobs within his father's company. Donald Trump was sent to the New York Military Academy at the age of 13.
He then attended the University of Pennsylvania and became his father's heir apparent after his older brother, Frederick Crist Trump Jr., chose to pursue a career as a pilot.
Mr. Joe Biden (full name: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1942. He is the eldest of four children in an Irish-American Catholic family.
Joe Biden’s biggest challenge as a young man was overcoming a stutter, which affected him greatly during his high school years. But practicing in front of a mirror helped him overcome the difficulty within a few months.
He attended the University of Delaware and then went to law school at Syracuse University. He married his first wife, Neilia, and began his political career in Wilmington, Delaware.
1970s
Donald Trump said he entered the real estate business with a "small" loan of $1 million from his father before joining Fred Trump's company.
There, he helped manage a portfolio of properties in New York City and eventually took control of the company. In 1971, he changed the company's name to the Trump Organization.
About six years later, Donald Trump married his first wife - Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model and athlete.
His children from that marriage - Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric - now help their father run the Trump Organization.
As Joe Biden was eagerly awaiting his election to the US Senate in 1972, tragedy struck. His wife and daughter Naomi were killed in a car accident. His children Beau and Hunter were seriously injured.
Mr Biden was sworn in as a Democratic senator for his first term from his children's hospital room.
1980s
In the late 1970s, Mr. Trump expanded his real estate business, shifting his focus from Brooklyn and Queens to Manhattan, New York.
He built the Trump Tower skyscraper on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. This building opened in 1983.
Other Trump-branded properties that followed — including Trump Place, Trump World Tower, and Trump International Hotel & Tower — have attracted media attention.
During his first 14 years in Washington, D.C., Mr. Biden rebuilt his personal life after the deaths of his first wife and daughter.
He wanted to give his sons a normal life like everyone else and commuted every day from their home in Delaware to Washington D.C. He eventually married Jill Jacobs, a teacher, and together they had a daughter named Ashley.
In 1987, Mr. Biden ran for president for the first time, but later announced his withdrawal from the race after being accused of plagiarizing a speech by then-British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.
1990s
When it comes to Trump’s career, just talking about real estate is not enough. He has entered the entertainment industry, organizing many beauty pageants in 1996 such as: Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA.
After splitting with Ivana, Trump married actress Marla Maples in 1993. They had a daughter, Tiffany, before divorcing in 1999.
1999 was also the year that Mr Trump's father passed away. "My father was an inspiration to me," Mr Trump said at the time.
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