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.”

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.”

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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