This isn't Trump's first time in hot water: the many scandals of the young Donald Trump

Donald Trump is in scalding hot water these days, however, if you've followed his antics over the years you probably aren't surprised. Click on to read about some of Trump's scandals from his youth.

The real estate mogul turned television celebrity turned US president is one of the most recognizable figures around the world, and not always for the right reasons. However, knowing Donald Trump's early life is a good way to understand the man now.

Donald John Trump was born in New York City in 1946 to Fred Trump and Mary Anne McLeod.

The father of the future president was a real estate developer who disowned his eldest son for not following in his footsteps and going into the family business. He guaranteed to not make the same mistake with young Donald.

Fred Trump made sure to connect his son to the best of New York society. Here's Donald Trump in the early 80s with NYC mayor Ed Koch and Roy Cohn, the infamous right-wing political fixer who is regarded as one of the mentors of the future president.

Cohn, who got into the spotlight for helping Senator Joe McCarthy to hunt down Communists in the 1950s, taught young Donald to “Always hit back and never apologize”. Trump quickly distanced himself from his former mentor after a series of scandals made him fall in disgrace. Cohn died from complications of AIDS in 1986.

The future president was enrolled into the New York Military Academy at age 13. There, he was captain of the baseball team and was voted as “Ladies' man” in the yearbook.

Image: The New York Military Academy yearbook, 1964.

Trump (seated, third from the left) later studied at Fordham University, where he transferred to the business school of the University of Pennsylvania after two years. There, he got a Bachelor's in Economics in 1968.

Image: The New York Military Academy yearbook, 1964.

In 2015, Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen threatened legal actions against these institutions if they released his academic records.

Image: The New York Military Academy yearbook, 1964.

During Trump’s college years, the Vietnam War was raging on. He managed to get four draft deferments. He was regarded permanently illegible in 1972 due to bone spurs, which has caused some controversy.

What is true is that the 70s saw Donald Trump’s rise into the New York business world. The former US president claimed he started with “a small loan” from his dad of just 1,000,000 US dollars.

The New York Times reveals that the actual sum of loans is something closer to 60 million US dollars, without taking into consideration the trust fund, monetary gifts, and other privileges given by Fred Trump.

At age 25, Trump was made president of The Trump Organization. Among his early successes were winning the bid to provide a lot for the construction of the Javits Center and the development of the Grand Hyatt Hotel next to Grand Central Terminal.

In 1977, he married Czech model Ivana Zelníčková. The couple would have three children: Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric.

Early controversies also arose around this time against the future president. An investigation from the Department of Justice revealed that applications from black residents were systematically rejected from Trump-owned apartment buildings.

The 1980s were, without a doubt, the decade when Donald Trump went from being a successful business man to famous.....or, depending on who you ask, infamous.

The construction of the Trump Tower in 5th Avenue wasn’t exactly free of scandal, even before its construction. The celebrity real estate developer tore down the historical Bonwit Teller building to build the 58-story skyscraper.

According to a 1990 New York Times piece, Trump claims that he was unaware over 200 undocumented workers from Poland were involved in the construction of the building.

His empire continued to extend outside New York City. The future president acquired Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1985.

Pictured: Donald Trump, with his daughter Ivanka sitting on his lap, during a Beach Boys concert in Mar-a-Lago in 1996.

More famously, Trump also started to develop hotels and casinos in Atlantic City, with mixed results. Some of them, such as the Trump Taj Mahal Casino, would file bankruptcy not long after opening.

Another new venture during the 1980s was professional sports. Trump was the owner of the New Jersey Generals, one of the teams that made up the United States Football League in 1983.

The USFL was meant to compete with the far more established NFL. Trump insisted that the new league should play in the fall to compete and eventually merge. Ultimately, the league would fold in 1986 after long legal problems with the NFL.

By the 1990s, Trump’s fortunes had taken a turn for the worse. In the following two decades, several of his hotels and casinos would file for bankruptcy.

Never Donald Trump himself, though. As he admitted in a 2011 Newsweek interview: “I do play with the bankruptcy laws – they're very good for me”.

However, the image of opulence Trump had cultivated for so many years allowed him to live off selling his name and persona to board games, commercials, and all sorts of products and ventures.

Eventually, entertainment became the main realm of Donald Trump. He became one of the main backers of the Miss USA contest and, in the 2000s, landed the job of hosting a reality TV show.

Pictured: Donald Trump during a wrestling event in 2006.

And the rest is US presidential history…