Trump has 165 million worth of assets. The rest comes from what he values his own name at... Trump now must value his name at over ten billion.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/mark-cuban-donald-trump-wealthCuban, the Donald Trump of tech billionaires, might be the only public figure who can match the presumptive Republican nominee in mouthiness and get away with it. In fact, as he recently proved during a radio interview, he might be one of the few people who can question Trump’s wealth and have people take his opinion seriously—or, at the very least, make news for doing so.
In the wake of several reports suggesting that Trump’s net worth might be significantly lower than he claims—a theory only bolstered by Trump’s insistent refusal to release his tax returns—Cuban, whose net worth is estimated at $3.2 billion, went on 77 WABC’s Bernie and Sid show to cast doubt on whether his fellow mogul really deserves his alleged Three Comma status.
“Nobody’s great at everything,” Cuban said, as first reported by BuzzFeed. “I know what I’m good at, and I know what I’m not good at. I’m not so sure Donald knows what he’s not good at.”
Cuban, for instance, is good at owning a professional basketball team, investing in tech companies, and funding whatever small-potato start-ups earn his approval on Shark Tank—and so he largely sticks to those realms. Trump, on the other hand, is engaged in an absurd array of businesses and side hustles that make little financial sense except as an exercise in vanity (or, more generously, personal branding). Cuban gave Trump credit for being “good at branding real estate,” but bashed the rest of Trump’s interests as evidence of an unsound mind. “I don’t think he’s very good at brands for non–real estate products. And, to me, it’s more a reflection of desperation,” he told Bernie and Sid’s co-hosts. Cuban then ran through a list of Trump’s random assortment of business investments—steaks, water, playing cards—and called his strategy “nonsense.”
Finally, because all Trump-era politics must come down to a hand-measuring contest, Cuban cited the candidate’s recent F.E.C. filings to proclaim that he, not Trump, was the richer of the two. “Before all the Trumpians jump on me on who has more money, the reason I know is when you file your federal election campaign reports, you have to list all your cash and liquid securities and bonds,” Cuban argued. “You have to list them one by one. So we know without any question that as of May 27, Donald doesn’t have more than $165 million in cash and securities and bonds. And trust me, I’ve got a lot of more than that in cash, securities, and bonds.”
So far, Trump has yet to respond, but judging from their past interactions, it won’t be pretty. Back in 2015, when Cuban first implied that Trump did not have enough cash on hand to run for the presidency, Trump retorted that the Dallas Mavericks owner was a “lightweight whose net worth is a fraction of mine” and that he once “watched him play golf and he is a total non-athlete—zero clubhead speed.” That did not stop Trump from holding a September rally at the American Airlines Center, where the Mavericks play. Cuban, who recently claimed that he’d make a better president than Trump, knows a good deal when he sees one.