Donald Trump Hits Back at Forbes for Listing Him at Lower Net Worth

Donald Trump did not make the top 100 of Forbes’ list of the 400 richest Americans released this week (he ranked in at #121), but the Republican presidential candidate said on CNBC’s Speakeasy w/ John Harwood that the magazine didn’t know what it was talking about.

“I read this morning that you’re a $4.5 billion man,” host John Harwood began (Trump maintains his net worth is $10 billion). “What do you think of their list?”

“Well, I think their list – I mean, number one, I’m a private company,” Trump said. “They don’t really know my assets very well.”

“I think that they are very good people. I like the people at Forbes. They don’t know a lot of the things I own. I don’t think they give me any value for brand and my brand is very valuable. I do deals – I’m doing deals right now. In fact, when I leave you, I’m signing a branding deal that’s a phenomenal, tremendous hundreds of millions of dollars in value, all because of my brand.”

Harwood pointed out that Forbes also said Trump didn’t have a lot of cash assets. “They are wrong,” Trump said. “I have a lot of cash. But if I had, I think– I mean I’m not going to go and tell you exactly what cash I have, but I have hundreds of millions of dollars of cash.”

Watch above via CNBC.

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