{"id":2265,"date":"2017-03-26T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2017-03-26T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T20:54:11","slug":"trump-drops-200-spots-forbes-rich-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/trump-drops-200-spots-forbes-rich-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump drops 200 spots in Forbes rich list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Politically Donald Trump may be at the height of his career, but his personal fortune has taken a battering over the last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>According to Forbes\u2019 2017 billionaire list, the US President is now only 544th in the global ranking of the world\u2019s super-rich.<\/p>\n<p><!-- between content ad --><\/p>\n<p>This puts him more than 200 spots below where he ranked last year, with an estimated wealth of $3.5bn compared to $3.7bn last year and $4.5bn the year before.<\/p>\n<p>The publication attributed his fall to the state of the Manhattan <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/property-center-nigeria\/\">real estate<\/a> market in which Mr Trump has invested a disproportionate amount of his fortune.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_745262\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-745262\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1-300x182.png?resize=300%2C182\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1-300x182.png 300w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1-58x35.png 58w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1-260x158.png 260w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1-200x121.png 200w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1.png 412w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" \/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-745262\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1-300x182.png?resize=300%2C182\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1-300x182.png 300w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1-58x35.png 58w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1-260x158.png 260w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1-200x121.png 200w, http:\/\/d19lga30codh7.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump1.png 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Donald Trump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cForty per cent of Donald Trump\u2019s fortune is tied up in Trump Tower and eight buildings within one mile of it,\u201d Forbes said. \u201cLately, the neighbourhood has been struggling (relatively speaking),\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump\u2019s wealth has been a subject of fierce debate and much speculation in recent years and he is notoriously sensitive about disclosing earnings.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published in September 2015, Forbes wrote that no other mogul featured on their annual rich list has been \u201cmore fixated with his or her net worth estimate on a year-in, year-out basis than Donald J Trump\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine said that other billionaires on the list had a tendency of complaining that their estimate was too high rather than too low.<\/p>\n<p>When Forbes estimated his fortune at $4.5bn in 2015, Mr Trump reportedly complained: \u201cI\u2019m running for President. I\u2019m worth much more than you have me down [for].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t look good, to be honest. I mean, I look better if I\u2019m worth $10bn than if I\u2019m worth $4bn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates topped this year\u2019s rich list for a fourth consecutive year, with an estimated fortune of around $86bn. He was followed by Berkshire Hathaway chief executive Warren Buffett, whose wealth was cited to be around $75.6bn.<\/p>\n<p>Others in the top ten, which is heavily dominated by Americans in the technology sector, were Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, at number five, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison at number seven and Amazon\u2019s founder Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2017\/03\/trump-drops-200-spots-forbes-rich-list\/\"> link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politically Donald Trump may be at the height of his career, but his personal fortune has &hellip; <a title=\"Trump drops 200 spots in Forbes rich list\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/trump-drops-200-spots-forbes-rich-list\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump drops 200 spots in Forbes rich list<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[518,525,369,84,2878,842,526],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-forbes-rich-list","tag-real-estate","tag-real-estate-market","tag-trump","tag-us-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Trump1-300x182.png?fit=300%2C182&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}