1978 Fred Trump Gave His son Donald...

[busterbrown]

A Million bucks....
So to better understand what that million bucks would mean today?

Close to 4 million...

Well 4 Million would be a good start for someone starting a business today.
You Think?

http://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1000000&year=1960

[napkinz]

1. It wasn't easy for Donald. His father gave him a small loan ...

[dubyadiprecession]

5. It sounds like he made alot of sacrifices in his life.

[bluesbassman]

2. It wasn't just that, Fred essentially underwrote everything Donald did.

Including buying $3.5m in chips at the Trump Taj Mahal casino so that he could meet capital requirements. Trump would be lucky to be selling vacuum cleaners door to door in New Jersey if it wasn't for his daddy's help.

[DefenseLawyer]

3. He also inherited his father's real estate holdings

And was handed control of his company. Good work if you can get it.

[busterbrown]

4. Yep... Dad certainly didn't start his son ..

down in the mail room.

[Hortensis]

6. At some point Young Rump supposedly had $200M,

and I think it was Robert Reich pointed out that if he'd simply invested it in index funds back then and gone off to play he'd be something like three times more wealthy now, assuming he really has $4B.