Good comments—but there is more...
When you mentor someone you want them to succeed.
You support them in every way you can.
You cheer on their success, and take great pride in it.
You never try to remind people that you were the reason for their success.
Never.
It is inexcusable and unforgivable.
Agree all the way. I cherish my mentors and am happy with and for and proud of those I have mentored, not because I “paid it forward” to them, but in their own right. Whatever I passed on to them was partly on loan from my own mentors, anyway, and they did well with it *themselves* and *should* have the credit.
But Trump is not the mentoring type. At least not when it comes to politics.