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Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes List Of Richest Americans For Second Time In 3 Years | Forbes

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Donald Trump is no longer rich enough for the country’s most exclusive club. With an estimated $2.6 billion fortune, he is $300 million shy of the cutoff for The Forbes 400 ranking of America’s richest people, the annual measurement that Trump has obsessed over for decades, relentlessly lying to reporters to try to vault himself higher on the list. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Following a tough year for his social media and real estate holdings, Donald Trump is no longer a member of the Forbes 400.

0:07.0

In a moment, we'll talk with Dan Alexander about the former president's falling network and what it could mean for his

0:13.1

2024 ambitions.

0:14.7

Hi everybody I'm Britain Lewis with Forbes breaking news.

0:20.9

Joining me now is my colleague, Forbes Senior Editor, Dan, thanks for coming on.

0:26.0

Hey, thank you for having it.

0:29.1

First of all, I want to extend a big congrats, the Forbes 400, the list of the wealthiest Americans has just dropped.

0:35.8

But someone who did not make the list this year is former President Donald Trump.

0:40.3

So first, can you tell us why?

0:42.2

How much did his net worth decrease since last year and what caused the drop?

0:47.0

Yes, we have Donald Trump at 2.6 billion dollars.

0:50.0

Obviously that's a lot of money but not quite enough money to make the Forbes 400.

0:55.6

The cutoff for this year was $2.9 billion.

0:58.6

Last year we had Trump at $3.2 billion.

1:01.9

The biggest reason for that $600 million decline

1:05.9

is what's happened to true social and social media platform.

1:09.2

Basically a year ago, people could still hold out hope that there were going to be hordes of people

1:14.4

joining this thing and that, you know, Trump would therefore become very rich because they get a lot

1:19.1

of advertising dollars. Hasn't happened. You know, people just never really showed up. Right now it looks

1:25.5

like they have about six and a half million accounts. That's about 1% of the

1:31.8

number of accounts that are on Twitter and obviously Twitter itself

1:35.6

is struggling so all of that's been very painful for Trump's sort of nascent

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