Despite campaign rhetoric for centuries that hypes candidate‘s identification with the common man, the fact is no poor individual ever was elected as president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman, who was a Democrat, was paced at the bottom of the list with less than $1 million. The amount also equals to 8 American presidents in the early modern America.
Baraka Obama was raised in a broken family with poor economic background was no more financially poor when he was became president of the states. His teaching job and government’s salary that he took as servant of the Sates let him to gather between $1 million to $5 million before being elected president in 2008.
The latest edition to the list, Donald Trump has topped the list with nearly $4 billion net wealth breaking the American war hero, George Washington’s centuries-old record. Washington was an amount of wealth worth $580 million.
The Americans helped Donal Trump ($3.7 billion) to break the 227-year old record $580 million) which was set by the America’s first president, George Washington, who took his oath on 30 April 1789. According to the Forbes Magazine, a product of his shrewd business sense, a marriage to a wealthy widow and several inheritances made him being the richest president of the United States.
An investigation into Trump’s wealth, which was conducted by The Forbes, said Trump’s total wealth is worth $3.7 billion in 2015.
If you look into the world richest president-list, Russia’s Vladimir Putin tops the list with wealth net worth $40 billion that followed by late Thai King late king of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej, who has nearly $30 billion.
The US’s richest president-elect is liked by the world richest president Putin. It sounds cool!
Being a businesswoman, UK PM Theresa May, is one of the latest editions to the list, who assumed on 11 July 2016.
Now, time to think is the world heading towards a conglomeration of capitalists?
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