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this. He is tall, lean and blonde with dazzling white teeth and he looks ever so much like Robert Redford.

He dates slinky fashion models, belongs to the most elegant clubs,

and at only 30 years of age estimates that he is worth more than 200 million.

That is how the New York Times described Donald Trump in 1976.

If you ask Donald Trump then and now he'd say his most valuable asset was his brand and for

decades the name Trump has been synonymous with wealth.

Trump promoted himself to the world as a business genius.

Want to be rich? Be like Trump. You'll walk down the street sometimes that people will

touch you just for the good luck. I've never

figured that out I've never really understood it but it's something that's been

happening and at first I took great offense at it now I almost I guess I have to

consider it a compliment I don't

know what it is but perhaps they're going into a deal or they're going down to

Atlantic City or they're going someplace and they just want to have a little

luck. But the myth of Trump has always been riddled with inconsistencies.

In 1987, Trump came out with what would become the cornerstone of his business franchise,

the art of the deal.

Years later, Trump's ghost writer who actually wrote the book

told the New Yorker that he felt like he had put lipstick on a pig. In reality,

Trump's businesses have failed over and over again.

He bought an airline.

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