...making a profit. If he did, he'd be able to read a balance sheet and an income statement by now. He can't even read the real estate leases he signs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HPq... This is a big difference between him and the top 20 (100?) New York real estate developers.
Plenty of wealthy people take pains not to draw attention to themselves. They try to stay off the Forbes list, while Donny faked his way onto it so he could win loans that didn't match his actual assets and earning power. The former is what he cared about, not the latter.
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“I’ve never met anyone else remotely like him,” said Charles Leerhsen, who co-wrote Trump’s book, “Surviving at the Top” in 1990. “He is and was profoundly stupid, completely lacking in intellectual curiosity.”
That last one is still true today.