Donald Trump is the $10 Billion Man — or so he claims.
The raging Republican presidential hopeful boasted about the scope of his wealth in a required candidate filing Wednesday, with his campaign saying he’s worth in excess of $10 billion.
Trump said he made $362 million in 2014 alone — and that’s not even counting “dividends, interest, capital gains, rents and royalties.”
He said he pulled down a cool $213,606,575 during his 14 seasons on NBC’s “Apprentice.”
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The newly released $10 billion figure — which would make Trump by far the richest man ever to seek the presidency — far outstrips the $8.7 billion fortune he claimed when he kicked off his White House bid a month ago.
It’s also a far cry from the $4 billion Forbes independently estimates Trump is now worth — after downgrading him because of his spate of business-repelling remarks about immigrants.
Team Trump accounted for the billion-dollar-plus bump by saying the financials released during his June kickoff were actually more than a year old.
“Real estate values in New York City, San Francisco, Miami and many other places where he owns property have gone up considerably during this period of time,” the campaign said in a statement.
The campaign didn’t release the actual form the federal government requires presidential contenders to file, and the Federal Election Commission has up to 30 days to make it public.
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The full filing should shed much more light on Trump’s wealth, said Fordham University’s Costas Panagopoulos.
“Soon enough we will see what the reality is — and if there’s a big disconnect between the reality and the way he’s presenting it, there’ll be a price to pay,” he said.
But he added: “At the end of the day, as far as voters are concerned, the difference between 4 billion and 10 billion still puts him in a category of very wealthy.”
Team Trump practically characterized the candidate as too big to file — sniffing that the disclosure forms are “not designed for a man of Mr. Trump’s massive wealth.”
The political and business worlds have been eagerly waiting for Trump to put his documentation where his mouth is.
The bellicose billionaire acknowledged that with signature swagger — if few verifiable details.
“First people said I would never run, and I did. Then, they said, I would never file my statement of candidacy with the FEC, and I did. Next, they said I would never file my personal financial disclosure forms. I filed them early despite the fact that I am allowed two 45-days extensions,” he said via his campaign.
A separate FEC filing reported that Trump had loaned about $1.8 million to his campaign so far.
Trump’s red-hot rhetoric about Mexico and illegal immigrants has cost the “Art of the Deal” author more than a few business relationships.
Among those who have broken ties with him after he referred to undocumented immigrants as “rapists” and “criminals”: Macy’s, Univision and NBC.
But Team Trump framed the financial disclosure in a way that suggested the income lost in those deals would be couch-cushion change to the reality show star.
The GOP hopeful made money selling stock, the campaign said, although those holdings are “only a small part of his net worth.”
Trump’s mutual and hedge fund investments include Paulson Advantage Plus, Oppenheimer, and The Obsidian Fund.
According to details released by his camp, Trump made money off most of the brace of blue-chip stocks he unloaded in January 2014 — including household names like Apple, Exxon Mobil, Facebook, McDonald’s and Pfizer — and lost only on Coca Cola, DR Horton, Enbridge Inc., Occidental Petroleum, and PepsiCo.
His campaign didn’t respond to an inquiry about why he sold the stocks.
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