

Donald Trump has checked off just about every item from his bucket list: Real estate mogul, television star, and self-made tycoon worth $2.7 billion. But all that pales in comparison to the ultimate title: President of the United States. Here Mr. Trump speaks at the South Florida Tea Party's third annual tax day rally on April 16 in Boca Raton, Fla. Gary Coronado/Palm Beach Post/AP
Donald Trump and his children, Eric Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump attend the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the new Trump SoHo condo-hotel at 246 Spring Street in New York in 2010. J.B Nicholas/Splash News/Newscom/File
Donald Trump makes a speech about possibly running for president in 2012 at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Feb. 10. Brandon Todd/Splash News/Newscom/File
Donald Trump officially opens the Presentation Center for the Residences at The Ritz-Carlton Toronto in 2001. Ultimately the deal fell through, and Mr. Trump moved on to developing the Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto, while the Ritz-Carlton built a separate hotel. J.P. Moczulski/AFP/Newscom/File
Donald Trump poses with prospective contestants during an audition for NBC's reality series 'The Apprentice,' in this undated publicity photo. Sixteen would-be moguls compete to win Trump's favor, and a job as his assistant that pays $250,000, in this show that premiered on Jan. 8, 2004. Eric Liebowitz/NBC/AP/File
Donald Trump shakes hands with Wagner College graduates after receiving an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during commencement exercises in the Staten Island borough of New York in 2004. Chad Rachman/AP/File
Donald Trump films a scene for a Pizza Hut commercial featuring The Big New Yorker Pizza. The commercial aired during the Super Bowl in 1999. Feature Photo Service/Newscom/File
Donald Trump sings along with 'Saturday Night Live' cast members (from left) Amy Poehler, Kenan Thompson, Seth Meyers, and Maya Rudolph, as they make a musical pitch for his new business venture – the New Jersey hot wings restaurant, Trump's House of Wings – during the "You're Fryer-ed" segment on the NBC television show in 2004. Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC/AP/File
Donald Trump holds a news conference in New York in 2005 next to a model of his proposed Twin Towers II, an alternative to the Freedom Tower design approved to be built on Ground Zero. Mr. Trump's 'redesign' would be one floor higher than the Twin Towers destroyed on September 11, 2001. Trump has called the Freedom Tower design inappropriate. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom/File
Donald Trump meets Beckie Hughes, Miss Colorado USA 2008; Raquel Roxanne Beezley, Miss California USA 2008; Rachel Howells, Miss Arkansas USA 2008; Kimberly Joiner, Miss Arizona USA 2008; and Keisha Walding, Miss Alabama USA 2008, during a break in rehearsals for the Miss USA competition in Las Vegas in 2008. Patrick Prather/Miss Universe L.P., LLLP/HO/AP/File
Any self-respecting possible presidential candidate should have his own board game. Donald Trump speaks at a press conference for the launch of 'Trump the Game,' a board game produced by Parker Brothers, in New York in 2004. Ramin Talaie/Sipa Press/Newscom/File
Donald Trump signs his book 'The America We Deserve' at Trump Tower in New York in 2000. Laura Cavanaugh/UPI/Newscom/File
Then-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (l.) and Donald Trump confer at the reviewing stand in the 42nd Annual Steuben Day Parade in 1999, where Trump was the Grand Marshal. Richard B. Levine/Newscom/File
Donald Trump visits the sand dunes and the site of the Trump Golf Course development in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 2010. Zuma Press/Newscom/File
Donald Trump is pictured in the 1990s during the rise and fall of his real estate empire. Mr. Trump owned Trump Airlines from 1989 to 1992. Wenn/Newscom/File
Donald Trump, then owner of the now defunct New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League, is pictured in 1984. Trump tried to hire coach Don Shula of the Miami Dolphins, but ended up hiring former New York Jets head coach Walt Michaels instead. Chuck Solomon/Icon SMI/Newscom/File
Donald Trump is pictured with his first wife, Ivana, in 1988. They were married from 1977 to 1992 and had three children. Ivana gave Mr. Trump his nickname, 'The Donald.' Adam Scull-Globe Photos, Inc./Newscom/File
Donald Trump is pictured with his second wife Marla Maples and their daughter Tiffany in New York in 1995. The couple's marriage lasted from 1993 to 1999. Ezio Petersen/UPI/Newscom/File
Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrive at the 83rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 27. Melania, a former model, would certainly be a glamorous first lady. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters/File
Donald Trump, his wife Melania Knauss-Trump, and their son Barron William Trump watch Roger Federer of Switzerland play Serbia's Novak Djokovic in the US Open semifinals at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York in 2010. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Newscom/File