I agree. He is not exactly the archetype of the self-made man.
Compare Trump to Fred Smith. He invested his $4M inheritance in 1971, the same year Trump took control of the family company worth at the time $300M.
Fred built Fedex. His net worth is today rated at about $4B, the same as Trump’s.
To my mind Smith created a great deal more wealth than Trump, as he essentially created an entirely new industry and thus many thousands of jobs. Good jobs.