Trump excluded from list of richest 400 Americans for the first time in 25 years | Forbes Magazine 2021

For the first time in 25 years, the former President of the United States, Donald trump, no is on the list of the 400 greatest fortunes Americans found the magazine Forbes, according to a statement from the magazine itself. Another well-known figure who has also faded from the rankings is TV host Oprah Winfrey.

Currently, the fortune of the magnate is calculated in $ 2.5 billion, an amount similar to that of a year ago, when it was ranked 339 among the richest.

The main reason given for removing Trump from the list is that Its main sources of income, focused on the real estate sector, have stagnated in the face of the surge displayed by the cryptocurrencies and the tech sector., where it is absent.

So far, the former president has not commented on this latest fall through his statements, the tool he usually uses after his accounts on social networks Twitter and Facebook were suspended.

The ranking in the 2021 edition of Forbes was once again led by the creator of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, whose fortune was estimated at 201 billion dollars. The podium is over Elon musk, with 190,000 million and Mark Zuckerberg, with 134,500 million.

Trump’s Fortuna

Compared to the figures before the pandemic, Trump’s fortune plummeted by $ 600 million, which Forbes attributes to his own decisions for not having diversified their fortune and reinvesting in new sectors, as advised by his own advisers when he became president in 2016.

The magazine, in its 2021 edition, included a chart with the evolution of Trump’s fortune since 1996, when his most dramatic rise took place and which brought him closer to the top 100 in the world: with ups and downs his fortune remained stable between 2000 and 2015, but from there his downfall began: in 2016 he was excluded from the list of the 200 richest, in 2020 from the list of 300 and this year he left the list of 400.

The 400 richest Americans

According to Forbes, the collective fortune of the richest 400 Americans has increased by 40% in the past year: went from $ 3.2 trillion to $ 4.5 trillion. If we take into account the 20 richest, a cumulative fortune of 1,800 billion is reached.

One piece of information that explains the rise of cryptocurrencies as a new way to invest and build wealth is that There are seven crypto investors making the list for the first time, six more than in 2020. Among them, the richest is Sam Bankman-Fried, 29, who has an estimated fortune of $ 22.5 billion.

The four fortunes tied for last place are $ 2.9 billion, up from the minimum required to be listed in 2020, which was $ 2.1 billion.