Donald Trump turned a 1 million dollar loan into his empire. The million dollars was handed to him on a silver platter but what he did with it was not. America needs many more business men like him instead of whiners.

I understand why you said what you did (because media told you) but aren't you sick of being lied to every single day?

To be fair lottery winners are in a different sub-set. The rich have connections, a name and are afforded the opportunity for a good education. Your typical lottery winner is not exactly set up for success. Does Dan try? His FB posts don't seem to focus much on him working much. :)

He did then receive an inheritance. He is great at marketing "Trump" he was known in NYC as a successful real estate mogul before he bought anything. That is insanely impressive, but his business track record is not really that great.

And the other $4-9B (depending on who is talking) came from where?

Nobody seems to know about the $40M either. The Don claims it was $1M, Rubio seemed to be pulling numbers out of the air with no substantiation. The Washington Post tried to figure it out, they did not get any further than Rubio.

Even if it was $40M, it would have been given out around the time his father died in 1999. 17 years at 10% (generous but the wealthy have access to better funds) is $250M. Now did he get money as gifts before that? Loans? I'm sure he did. Doesn't account for a $4-9B gap.

Call him an obnoxious, orange, blowhard all you want. Blowing off $40M (or whatever) to $5-9B as something that "anyone can do" is just silliness.

Why would you make that 40 million statement when you know that it's not true?

Some biased opinion guy tried to estimate that his father's company was worth 200 million in the early 1970's. I haven't seen ANY proof that was ever true. Would have made his father one of the richest people in the world in the world back then. Keep in mind that our money wasn't worthless in the 1970's and Howard Hughes being a billionaire was mind-blowing to people.

Trump got a one million dollar loan from his dad. He paid it back. He bought out the other 4 siblings when his dad actually turned over the old company.

Yes, he built a huge and powerful company over the decades and has the experiences of almost 50 years of navigating business on a worldwide basis.

Heh-heh....what a bunch of nonsense that Yanks_Todd turned the thread into.

Nice troll man. You hijacked the thread and turned into ANOTHER boring fight over whether or not a BILLIONAIRE businessman is competent at....business! LOL!

Oh well, it was a nice political discussion for a couple of pages. Now it's just another GFY stupid-fest...and like a dumbass I participated in the stupidity. lol

to be even more fair, your original claim was that the majority of people (50%), anyone, if given $40m would grow that into even more wealth, regardless of connections.

that's just not an accurate assumption at all.

I believe he will get more than any republican has in many years

I said I stood corrected on that above.

He values his brand at somewhere around $5B I believe.

I never said anyone. Re read the post.

I think he is a brilliant billionaire self promoter. I believe he is the Micheal Jordan of self-promoters that is not knock on the guy, however that is different from being a business man. Zuckerberg is a billion dollar business man and a shitty promoter. Does he deserve the money, absolutely. Did he earn it absolutely. Was he given a head start in which many people could have done the same. Absolutely. Not everyone, but a lot of people could do the same. My opinion.

Good prediction, OP

Van Jones is a race baiting asshole

i remember that article OP. funny how huffpost actually belches out insightful perspectives once in a while.

fact is, trumps win was predicted by the primaries. a handful of libs saw it coming. the link made the case. everybody else drank the liberal polling cool aid, & dismissed the primaries.

& looked really dumb when they said it wouldnt even be close.

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I don't think rochard will be posting in this thread any time soon rofl

Zuckerberg is a billion dollar business man?! How in the fuck is facebook even worth anything?

of course not. its not in the nature of the liberal to be humble, to take responsibility, to inflect. its always the opposite...pretend you never said dumb things that are proven completely wrong by subsequent events. & keep on quacking the same bullshit, the from same bullshit sources, the same bullshit polls, as if they are still honest. obviously not.

its like dumb libs live in a comic book or something.

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This thread is pure gold! :1orglaugh