You're just picking and choosing to get the comparison you want.
Oprah went from $0 -> billionare. If she'd investive passively, she'd still have basically nothing.
Trump went from something like $500 million -> billionare. If he'd invested passively he'd be ahead.
In conclusion: Trump is a shitty businessman, which was really my only point.
> Neither is growing like Facebook or Google. These numbers aren't substantially different. Both have subpar returns.
> ... it's probably a better idea to turn off the TV and start looking at the people building companies that are actually growing.
This is weird valley-think. Those people were lucky more than anything, being in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills. They're not supermen. Running the country is not something I'd want any of them to be doing. Running a government sub-bureaucracy, maybe, but only one without much policy-making power.