Donald Trump's Life of Struggle: ‘My Father Gave Me a Small Loan of $1 Million’

[Liberal_in_LA]

The real estate mogul describes his life of hardship.
On Monday morning, Donald Trump appeared at a New Hampshire "Town Hall" moderated by NBC's Matt Lauer. When an attendee asked the real estate mogul if he'd ever been told "no," Trump replied by detailing a life of hardship involving a mere million dollar loan from his dad, a problem that must be all-too-familiar to struggling Americans.

"My whole life really has been a ‘no.’ And I fought through it," Trump said.



"It has not been easy for me," he said. "I started off in Brooklyn. My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars. I came into Manhattan, and I had to pay him back. And I had to pay him back with interest. But I came into Manhattan. I started buying up properties, and I did great."


When Lauer pointed out that starting out with a million dollars might not seem too difficult to most Americans, Trump's ego remained unscathed.

http://www.alternet.org/donald-trumps-life-struggle-my-father-gave-me-small-loan-1-million

[72DejaVu]

1. "My whole life really has been a ‘no.’

That part right there is actually kind of hard to argue with.

[Sunlei]

2. Unlike many Republicans, Trumps not a Quitter or Lazy, that's for sure.

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. A $1Million loan, plus a $40 to $200 Million inheritance

which he blew through in the 90s and had to borrow $20 Million from his siblings to stay afloat.

[NaturalHigh]

4. We should all have it so rough.

[tanyev]

5. Oh, the poor dear.

[TBF]

6. Bless his heart. nt

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. That's worse than poor Mrs. Romney lamenting their "poor times" when Mitt had ....

.... to sell some stocks his parents gave him.

These people really don't think like you and me.

A girl who lives in my building lives in the $350k condo her daddy bought her. Her family isn't anywhere close to that rich but you can see the entitled and spoiled thought process of someone who never had to worry about a mortgage payment and always had the family safety net.

[Lint Head]

8. How awfull. Just a million. There are people in Qatar starving

for a billion and little Trump gets crumbs. Just imagine how many more golf courses and casinos that would have been built if his daddy wasn't such a skin flint. The US may actually have become a giant domed shopping mall if his daddy had only been kinder. He could have built the world's tallest walls to keep out all the drug dealers and rapists.