Trump rages after falling off Forbes wealthiest list

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump delivers remarks on October 9, 2023 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump delivers remarks on October 9, 2023 in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Photo credit Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Former President Donald Trump was recently removed from the Forbes 400 list, a collection of the country’s wealthiest people. In response, he took to social media to blast the decision.

In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump ripped Forbes, saying it was “very badly failing” and “lost most of its relevance long ago.”

He went on to say that Forbes “took me off their Fake Forbes 400 list, just by a ‘whisker,’ even though they know that I should be high up on that now very dated and discredited ‘antique.’”

The magazine shared last week that Trump was roughly $300 million short of the threshold to make the list, meaning his estimated $2.6 billion fortune was not enough to be among the 400 wealthiest Americans.

This marked the second time in the last three years that Trump has failed to make a list, the magazine shared.

Forbes says that Trump has “obsessed” over its list for decades, but maintained that his networth has dropped nearly $600 million in the last year, in part due to his investment in Truth Social.

However, the former president claimed on Truth Social that he was the victim of the magazine’s constant attacks.

“For years Forbes has attacked me with really dumb writers assigned to hit me hard, and I am now up 60 Points on the Republicans, and beating Crooked Joe by a lot,” Trump wrote. “So much for Forbes!”

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