So we don’t have a plaster success story. He had to learn and work — and in doing so he got from the millions to the billions.
That’s the story of most of us too. Have we looked at what our families invested in us? We might be shocked, even if it never entailed formally asking for money afterwards.
Let’s chuck um out and look for the one with the silver spoon marked “President.” /sarc
I admire trump as a businessman who preserved and built on a large fortune. He hasn’t outpaced the stock market but all appearances are that all in all, he stayed ahead of inflation. He’s done well.
But not as well as he makes out. He is no business genius. I’ll leave that appellation to the likes of Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. These guys came from middle class or upper middle class backgrounds (Buffett was the son of a congressman when congressman didn’t make $160k+). They really made tens and tens of billions from nearly nothing.
Buffet, as an example, gave away half his wealth a few years back, and as of 2013 was back to $60 billion+. trump is a moderately successful conservator daddy’s fortune (what do you think 27,000 apartments in New York were worth in 1970? Do the math.). Warren Buffet is a business genius who could buy the likes of trump several times per year. trump is a little boy who thinks he’s a big dogs.