Feels Your Pain: Young Donald Trump’s Dad Gave Him A ‘Small Loan Of $1 Million’ He ‘Had To Pay Back’
Donald Trump explains how things have not always been easy for him.
Social media exploded in hysterics this morning when brash billionaire Donald Trump sat down with NBC’s Matt Lauer for a Today Show town hall and explained that he hasn’t always had it easy.
“My whole life really has been a ‘no’ and I fought through it,” Trump said Monday morning in New Hampshire. “It has not been easy for me, it has not been easy for me. And you know I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.”
“I came into Manhattan. I had to pay him back. I had to pay him back with interest. But I came into Manhattan, I started buying up properties. And I did great.â€
Matt Lauer challenged Trump a bit.
“You said that it hasn’t been easy for you, but my dad gave me a million dollar loan. That is probably going to seem pretty easy to a lot of people,†Lauer said.
“You’re right,†Trump responded. “But a million dollars isn’t very much compared to what I built. I built one of the great companies.â€
It’s unknown what year Trump received that “small” million dollar loan. Trump was born in 1946. For argument’s sake, let’s pretend he received that one million dollar loan in 1970, when he was 24. The “small” one million dollar loan, accounting for inflation and no interest, today would be $6,228,435.01.
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Some responses via Twitter:Â
Donald Trump has been calling himself “Self-made” all these years when he started off with a million dollar loan from his dad.
— Bonisile from RMS (@Bonisile_RMS) October 26, 2015
Life would have been a lot less ‘struggle’ for me if my father had given ME a million bucks, Trump… #GOP
— Chuck Nellis (@ChuckNellis) October 26, 2015
Yeah, Donald. Common problem for all of us. Life’s a b@#$h, ain’t it? We all feel your pain. Just title this… https://t.co/MWyFKxSr3N
— Warren County Dems (@WarrenCoDemsOH) October 26, 2015
You’ll be moved by @realdonaldtrump‘s perseverance in overcoming adversity. Books will be written about his courage. https://t.co/bYqYd0SJ6l
— Peter Wehner (@Peter_Wehner) October 26, 2015
Trump called a million dollars a small loan. That 1% life is a trip.
— Scientific Fapp (@TeritaTweets) October 26, 2015
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