Trump rages after he drops off Forbes rich list: 'Really dumb writers hit me hard!'
October 09, 2023
Donald Trump lashed out at Forbes after the magazine dropped him from its list of the 400 richest people in America.
The former president fell off the Forbes 400 after his estimated net worth dropped by more than $600 million from last year, thanks primarily to the failure of his Truth Social platform – where Trump raged Monday against the publication – and drooping property values in his real estate holdings.
"China owned (China Investment Corp, the Country’s Sovereign wealth Fund!), and very badly failing, Forbes 'Magazine,' which lost most of its relevance long ago, and which knows less about me than Stormy Daniels (who doesn’t know me at all!) or Rosie O’Donnell, took me off their Fake Forbes 400 list, just by a 'whisker,' even though they know that I should be high up on that now very dated and discredited 'antique,'" Trump posted.
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Trump fell $300 million short of the $2.6 billion cutoff for the list, which he first joined in 1982 after tricking a reporter into believing that he held a larger percentage of his father Fred Trump's fortune. He previously fell off in 1990 when Forbes exposed problems in his debt-laden business, and he returned in 1996 and stayed there until 2021.
"They are working with the Racist and highly incompetent, job killing Attorney General of New York, Letitia 'Peekaboo' James, who has allowed Murder and Violent Crime in the State to hit epidemic levels," Trump posted. "China owned Forbes is a participant in the Election Interference Scam, and after what I have done to China, with hundreds of billions of dollars being paid to the USA, who can blame them? For years Forbes has attacked me with really dumb writers assigned to hit me hard, and I am now up 60 Points on the Republicans, and beating Crooked Joe by a lot. So much for Forbes!"
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