Donald Trump explains his ‘difficult’ rise to the top

Republican presidential aspirant Donald Trump has spoken of his climb to the top of the business world, saying he had to take risks to make it.

Trump said he received a ‘small’ loan of USD1 million from his father to start off, which he chose to invest in Manhattan real estate.

“My whole life has been a ‘no’ and I fought through it,” Trump said.

“It has not been easy for me, and you know I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of one million dollars.”

The presidential aspirant conceded that as much as getting a million dollars from his father might seem easy to most people, the amount cannot be compared to what he has built.

Donald Trump is regarded as one of the wealthiest people in the world after building a multi-billion dollar net worth, mostly expanding his father’s lucrative real estate business to new heights.

Despite building his own empire, it is notable that Trump was born in a wealthy family, inheriting part of his father’s fortune of more than USD200 million net worth.

Speaking on the NBC-sponsored interview, Trump said his father warned him against investing in Manhattan real estate since it was outside family ventures, most of which are based in Queens and Brooklyn.

“Even my father said I should not go to Manhattan because that was not our territory,” he stated.

On the issue of illegal immigration, an issue that has occupied a big part of Trump’s campaign rallies, the aspirant could not exactly explain how he would deport the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the US.

Trump has come under sharp criticism in the past over his anti-immigrant utterances, at one point vowing to deport everyone who is in the US illegally if he becomes president.

He urged Americans to have faith in his management skills, saying he would revive the country’s economy “based on his second name”, noting that he would renegotiate trade deals involving US and bring back jobs to America.

Trump stressed the importance of ‘flexibility in deal making’, adding that there was no need for multi-point plans.

He explained that he would lower taxes and enter into meaningful deals that would better living conditions for American citizens.