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The No-Work Way to Wealth — When Losing is Winning
Trump Tax Returns Shows the Biggest Loser
When Trump told his fan base during the first election cycle “You’re going to get so sick of winning”, he meant by playing the other popular reality TV show Biggest Loser. He must have been. Despite all the tax tricks the uber-rich pull off, the idea net losses mastered by Trump prove he’s in that special category of American Winners: the Biggest Loser.
The initial recap from his released tax forms — from which there will be plenty of excuses and backpedaling and taxsplaining on how being rich works to folks like me in middle America is yet to come — is that he lost. Like a lot. While the rest of America was busy trying to stay afloat to earn money, Trump was trying to drown.
The numbers indicated that from 2015–2020, he racked up $82 million in LOSSES and in 2018 and 19 his adjusted gross income was $29 million. He ended up paying $1.8 million in federal between those years of 15–20 will be declaring $53 million in losses. Yes, he owns real estate and has management deals he “earns” from, I get it. No matter the interpretation and “ultimate” buried tax deductions and investment portfolio in worth and whatever we have yet to see, the devil sometimes lies in the open, the obvious, instead of in the details: “I declare I lost $53 million” is one he signed off on.
