But it's now apparent Trump being worth billions is smoke and mirrors.
I highly recommend everyone watch the documentary "Born Rich" in which a young adult Ivanka inadvertently admits her dad is broke and in serious debt and keeps afloat with new deals to pay Peter with Paul's money. She says at one point in the documentary that her dad pointed to a homeless guy and said "see that homeless man over there, he actually has more money" and just kind of laughs about it.
The "donates his salary" is also part of "smoke and mirrors" con. Each golf trip and resort trip to one of his properties cost tax payers enormous amounts of money because all of his security detail have to rent rooms and eat courtesy of the tax payers. He's made well over $400k per year on us and is fooling his base with the "donates" his salary charade.
He says he is a billionaire to get more and more loans and uses his heavily leveraged property as "proof." If that weren't the case, he wouldn't be hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.
He also uses his property to get illegal foreign bribes. Saudi families have rented entire floors of his buildings before the arms deal.
Trump reminds me of Jeff Lowe in the Tiger King who rented a mansion and a luxury car to convince Joe Exotic he was rich instead of massively in debt so he could con him. Or this case:
'Fake it until you make it': the strange case of New York's socialite scammer
It seems like the easiest way to get people to assume you won't con them is to pretend to not need the money.
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