Comparing Donald Trump to Teddy Kennedy is absurd
Teddy is 100% inheritance from a bootlegger(don’t mind bootleggers much) but he’s never worked a day beyond politics
And he killed a woman
Trump on the other hand entered his fathers business as a young man and mostly with the Grand Central Hyatt project scored big and multiplied the original family fortune from 50/150 million to half a billion and then continued from there
He’s fathered once and almost completely gone broke once on Atlantic City like many others but he doubled down and went to the mattresses with the creditors and recovered handsomely
He manages 22,000 employees and two ex wives and all his kids appear fairly well adjusted and competent with good work ethic
He cash flows from 1-2 million dollars a day on assets of 3-11 billion based on who’s counting all started from his daddy’s original middle income condo biz
Pretty much 60-220 times increase from when he took over 30 years ago
To call such a man with that endurance and smarts and toughness an idiot says more about the name caller than The Trump
America has had plenty of Trust Fund Kids, and a lot of them have done nothing more than cash checks, or squander what they inherited. Look at the Rockefeller and Kennedy brood.
It’s a rare individual that has inherited a lot of money and has worked as hard as Trump to make it grow. Bill Gates is one the few that comes to mind.
Trump did inherit, but as WarDaddy says, it was small stakes compared to the $3-$11 billion net worth today.
What many don’t know, is that around the 1989 time frame, Trumps was in dire straights. His net worth was in negative territory by about $150 million.
Since that time, he created his wealth to what it is today.
Anotherwords, his current wealth has nothing to do with his dad.
Donald Trump pulled himself up and made a go of it.
That’s what the best men do. Many a very rich man losses it all only to succeed again.
Trump is an amazing success story.
What he does isn’t easy. You have to be very smart and on your toes.
As I said, being rich does not equate to being smart. Think Ross Perot and you will finally get the picture.