Donald Trump in His Youth: Rare Photos From His Childhood

For those familiar with Donald Trump and his aesthetic preferences, they might recognize this as the interior to one of Trump’s many properties. Trump does love gold! However, this image of Trump and his first wife Ivana Trump was taken in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1987. Unless you’ve been living beneath a rock the last few years, you probably know that Trump has a long history with the Soviet nation.

The visit in 1987 was an exploration to develop a hotel in Russia. Trump had been invited by Ambassador Yuri Dubinin. Almost a decade later in 1996, Trump attempted more real estate development deals by submitting trademark applications. For years, Trump infamously asserted he had no business connections with Russia, but that was found to be false when it was revealed Trump had been pursuing a deal to build a Trump building in Moscow into June 2016. It’s also been found that Trump received considerable financial support following his bankruptcies in the 1990s from sources in Russia. This was corroborated by Donald Trump Jr., who said Russia made up a “pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. … We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”