Your baby girl (middle-aged woman) is the light of your life. Would YOU sacrifice the best interests of your country to enhance hers?

On calculating his own net worth:

Ceresney: Mr. Trump, have you always been completely truthful in your public statements about your net worth of properties?

Trump: I try.

Ceresney: Have you ever not been truthful?

Trump: My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with the markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings, but I try.

Ceresney: Let me just understand that a little. You said your net worth goes up and down based upon your own feelings?

Trump: Yes, even my own feelings, as to where the world is, where the world is going, and that can change rapidly from day to day...

Ceresney: When you publicly state a net worth number, what do you base that number on?

Trump: I would say it's my general attitude at the time that the question may be asked. And as I say, it varies.


https://money.cnn.com/2011/04/21/news/companies/donald_trump_excerpts/index.htm

So what? Everything he said there is completely correct. The value of a large empire can't be quantified very easily. Certainly there would be a large margin of error in such a calculation.

Any subjective assessment depends on one's own emotions. Of course it does. Are you saying your judgements are completely objective and constant?

Even if Trump has been exaggerating his net worth, so what? That's just smart business. The more the Trump brand is perceived to be worth, the more it actually is worth. This post was edited by Zeitgeist at May 29, 2018 1:00 PM MDT

Sorry, but no.

If they ask for his value - that can be a matter of opinion.
But "net worth" is a balance sheet equation that relies on hard numbers.

If you just own publicly traded stock, that's true. The market factors in the emotions of the whole world in real time, quantifying what something is worth.

That's not true of privately owned companies like the Trump organisation. It's far less true of the real estate market. Every share in Apple in the same as every other share in Apple, but one piece of real estate can't easily be compared to another piece of real estate.

Of course real estate values are easily compared.  It happens every day.

I know you've heard of mortgages.
Where you put up the value of a piece of property as collateral for a loan.
Those values are included on the bank's balance sheets.

Yes, a property can be valued but that value constantly changes. What a piece of real estate was valued at 15 years ago when it was mortgaged is not the same as it is now.

There are also many other factors in Trump's case that complicate things. How do you calculate precisely how much the value of real estate portfolio increased as Trump's celebrity grew? How can you precisely calculate how much it has been affected ever since Trump became hated by the left and admire by the right? These things can be estimated, but it's just an estimate not hard data.

I really don't see what Tom Jackson's point is anyway. So what? Who cares? This post was edited by Zeitgeist at May 29, 2018 2:59 PM MDT

:):):) Assets minus liabilities equal net worth. If the numbers are flaky the result is flaky too. How you "feel" has zero to do with it. Such a reply indicates an empty space where the brain should be. Empty brain syndrome I calls it! :) Happy Wednesday Walt! :) This post was edited by RosieG at May 30, 2018 3:47 AM MDT

:):):)