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A self made billionaire (who inherited $1 billion from his dad)


LOL what a hopeless dick. If it hadn't been for his family he'd probably be cleaning dishes in some diner right now (if he was lucky).

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Why would you want that? Then you'd end up working side by side with him.

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& yet he managed to mop the floor with Rodham's more than ample ass.

Sometimes you eat the bear (Hillary bored out of her mind at the Benghazi hearings)

& sometimes that bear? Just gets up all over ya...8 November turning to 9 November & the ashen faced humps of Media.

98+% chance she'd be President.

Uh, uh.

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He did not inherit 1 billion dollars. Fred Trump left each of his 5 kids 1 million dollars, which is not small change, but a far cry from 1 billion.

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The diner would need to have pretty low standards.

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No one knows how much he’s worth since he never revealed his taxes. He lies, lies, lies.

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He didn't inherit $1 Billion from his Father. Get real. It was $1 Million. Even though
I'm not a Trump fan, I respect in entrepreneurship.

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I would love to see what the average citizen would do with $1 million. Hell you see it all the time with lottery winners, they'll buy boats and ferraris, and the next day they're broke. Trump invested it and turned $1 million in several billion and a presidency, no small feat.

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Hell Obama pissed away 10 trillion and he couldn’t get economic growth above 1%. Kept under employment at record highs. And gave us the failed Obamacare and it’s 500% increased in premiums.

Hilary inherited billions for her campaign, a corrupt media and FBI, and still that pathetic loser couldn’t capitalize.

#OnceALoserAlwaysALoser

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He didn't get $1 billion, but he didn't get $1 million either. He most likely got somewhere in the ball park of $100 million to $200 million. Marco Rubio claimed it was $200 million, so $100 million is probably more reasonable. However, that's including Fred's estates and trusts that he had set up for. On top of that, Fred left behind an assortment of connections such as loan guarantees that Trump used to move to Manhattan.

Keep in mind that if you took $100 million and invested it into mutual funds for two decades, you'd be worth over $2 billion, and there are just as many rumors floating around that Trump is worth less than a billion as there are that he's worth two or more (mostly spread by himself).

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This is just Wall Street propaganda, spoon fed to you by your loving mainstream media. They want everybody to just give everything they’ve got to Wall Street thinking it’s some magic fountain of wealth. Why didn’t anybody suggest Trump should have started an online book store? There’s a bias against entrepreneurship, because it’s harder to control.

Quite a few people had 100 million in the 80s and how many are multi billionaires today? That “two decades” investment is a fantasy based on perfectly timed entries and exits, with zero transaction costs fees taxes, etc... and astonishingly, zero cost of living expenses! They’re hoping you didn’t notice that. Trump lived a lavish lifestyle in the most exclusive city in the world. Every dollar he took out would have been a loss of over 20 dollars in your calculation. Bad deal.

Trump built that. But as you said, he’s not as sophisticated a lying cheat as the people who already had it built. How can anyone compete?

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You don't know what Trump has. That's the problem. We'll never know. He's had so many bad deals that established billionaires like Mark Cuban don't want anything to do with him. He was in debt to Wall Street to somewhere between $800 million and a billion dollars. He did so poorly from his businesses that the government gave him a tax reprieve for over a decade.

And the majority of people who had $100 million in the 1980s are billionaires today. Trump may not be one of them.

It's quite possible that The Apprentice saved him from financial ruin.

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