Welcome to the BBC World Service. I'm Rob Watson. And this is the first in a series of

presidential profiles of President-elect Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and starting

with President Donald Trump. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. That I will faithfully

execute. He was the businessman and TV show host who became the 45th president of the United

States with huge power and resources at his fingertips. Over the next half hour,

I'll be trying to tell the life story of one of the most extraordinary people to occupy the

Oval Office. The rich kid from New York's outer borough of Queens inherited a fortune,

and with a Porsche on for skyscrapers, beautiful women, and celebrity, headed across the river

to Manhattan, creating a brand that would eventually clinch him the biggest deal of all the White

House. Congratulations, Mr. President. President Donald Trump had long been a fast-talking controversial

character with a turn of phrase just made for the age of social media. We are fighting the fake

news. It's fake. Fony. Fake. Pricot Hillary. Pricot Hillary. Now, sleepy Joe. Little Rocketman,

we are going to drain this swamp in Washington, DC. Build that wall. Build that wall. Build that wall.

We assembled here today our issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign

capital. During his inauguration speech, he set out his populist vision. From this day forward,

it's going to be only America first. America first. To his admirers, President Trump was always a man

just telling it like it is. We came here and support him because he supports us. We love our

president. He said what he meant, he said it and he done it. That's why I love him.

Nobody else has the guts to stand up and say what he's saying.

To his many detractors, he was a dangerous, unprincipled demagogue.

We need a president. We have right now, we have a five-year-old running the government.

Not my president. Not my president.

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