Thread: Trevor Noah says Forbes bombshell proves Trump's 'entire origin story was fake'

Trevor Noah says Forbes bombshell proves Trump's 'entire origin story was fake'

By Karma Allen
Apr 24, 2018, 2:24 AM ET


Trevor Noah said it's "mind-blowing" that President Donald Trump may have lied about his wealth in order to get on the famed Forbes list more than three decades ago.

“If I was a Trump supporter, this new revelation would have me shocked,” Noah said on Monday, just days after an ex-Forbes reporter claimed Trump deceived him in an effort to get on the magazine’s first-ever Forbes 400 list.

This proves that Trump’s “entire origin story was fake,” “The Daily Show” host added. “This would be like finding out Batman's parents were never killed, they just moved to Florida.”

Former Forbes journalist Jonathan Greenberg, who compiled the finance magazine's list of the country’s richest people in the 1980s, alleged in multiple media interviews this week that Trump lied to him in order to get on the annual list back in 1984.

Greenberg also claimed Trump called posing as "John Barron," a purported executive with The Trump Organization, who helped Forbes to value Trump at $100 million. The then-real estate developer was actually about worth less than $5 million at the time, according to Greenberg.

Noah, who played an audio recording of the alleged phone conversation between “Barron” and Greenberg, said the revelation is proof that Trump lied his way into the the White House.

“Trump lied to get on to the Forbes list, then the Forbes list cemented him as a mogul, then he used his mogul status to get to the White House,” Noah said. “Remember, his success story wasn't just a minor detail of who he was, it was the very matter of his campaign.

“If I was a Trump supporter I would be so pi--ed, I voted for a rich guy who was successful not a trickster who lied himself on to the Forbes list,” he added.

The Washington Post, which fist reported Greenberg's allegations, said the White House declined to comment, and The Trump Organization did not respond to the Post's request for comment.

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“If I was a Trump supporter I would be so pi--ed, I voted for a rich guy who was successful not a trickster who lied himself on to the Forbes list,” he added.

See this is why people from South Africa shouldn't be on an American "Daily Show". Trump Supporters could care less who is on the Forbes List or how they got there. What we care about is that the guy you label a "trickster" who owns more property than you can count is being lied about by a goofball who works out of his basement. We care about what Trump has done to improve neighborhoods where he built new projects. And what we care most about is what he wanted to do and is doing to fix our country.

All the goofball in the basement has done is show that he didn't verify facts to put people on the Forbes List, and you know what that means, don't you? It means the goofball in the basement destroyed the credibility of the Forbes List, not Donald Trump.

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