Trump received around $500 million from his father in gifts and other wealth transfers (in 2024 dollars). Had he invested that money passively in Manhattan real estate, it would have been worth over $80 billion by 2017 instead of the $2.5 billion that Forbes estimated. Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig argue that Trump was quite lucky due to factors like the Manhattan real estate boom and narrowly escaping the multiple occasions that "ought to have sunk him into total and irrevocable bankruptcy".
 
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