Originally Posted by Rochard

You can't say he is a good business man. His parents helped him make hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions before he was legal drinking age - and that was back in the late 1970s. His parents gave him the initial investments, helped him make tons of money, and gave him the contacts to do more of the same. Then with the inheritance he was set for life. He couldn't really fail, yet he did - multiple times. Trump has been through bankruptcies four times. With other projects when he fails, he doesn't lose money - his investors do.