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Aside from the fact that he is somehow the front-runner for the GOP nomination and has an actual shot at being reelected president<\/a> of the United States, the last few months have been pretty rough for Donald Trump.<\/strong> For one thing, a judge ruled<\/a> last week that the ex-president had spent years committing massive fraud, and now he\u2019s on trial<\/a> against the New York attorney general, who is seeking to bar him from running a business in the state and to extract $250 million in damages. On top of that, there\u2019s the $5 million (and counting<\/a>) he owes writer E. Jean Carroll<\/strong> after a jury found him liable<\/a> for sexual abuse and defamation. And, of course, there are those pesky four criminal indictments<\/a>, which could potentially lead to time in prison.<\/p>\n These are all things that most people would be extremely upset about\u2014and, despite what he has claimed, Trump reportedly is<\/a>. But this week, he got a piece of news that presumably led to unhinged ire throughout Mar-a-Lago, and God only knows how much ketchup strewn<\/a> across the walls: news that the former guy did not make the cut for the Forbes 400 this year.<\/p>\n Yes, as the outlet announced<\/a> on Tuesday, using words that no doubt deeply stung, \u201cDonald Trump is no longer rich enough for the country\u2019s most exclusive club. With an estimated $2.6 billion fortune, he is $300 million shy of the cutoff for the Forbes 400 ranking of America\u2019s richest people, the annual measurement that Trump has obsessed over for decades, relentlessly lying to reporters to try to vault himself higher on the list.\u201d<\/p>\n According to reporter Dan Alexander,<\/strong> the ex-president\u2019s net worth has dropped more than $600 million from a year ago, largely thanks to the social media network he founded after being kicked off* the one formerly known as Twitter for inciting an attack on the Capitol:<\/p>\n Trump once envisioned a significant percentage of the country logging onto the platform. But that never happened. Roughly 6.5 million have signed up so far, about 1% of the total on X (n\u00e9 Twitter). Trump\u2019s 90% stake in Truth Social\u2019s parent company has plummeted in value from an estimated $730 million to less than $100 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n Also apparently not helping his bottom line are Trump\u2019s office buildings, which Forbes<\/em> reports \u201care down by an estimated $170 million.\u201d A \u201cbright spot\u201d is said to be the former guy\u2019s Miami golf club, Trump National Doral, which is reportedly now worth \u201can estimated $291 million, before subtracting its $125 million of debt.\u201d After initially lying to sneak his way onto the inaugural list in 1982\u2014by claiming, per Forbes,<\/em> \u201cthat he held a larger percentage of [his father\u2019s] fortune than he actually did\u201d\u2014and dropping off in 1990, Trump won a legitimate spot on the ranking in 1996 and remained there until 2021, when he fell off once again.<\/p>\n Obviously, with an estimated $2.6 billion in the bank, Trump is still an extremely rich man, though clearly the guy cares about money and his brand as a rich person more than most people. Speaking to MSNBC over the weekend, Trump\u2019s former fixer Michael Cohen<\/strong> told<\/a> Jen Psaki<\/strong> that the prospect of losing control of some of his real estate properties\u2014which could happen<\/a> if the New York attorney general case does not go his way\u2014would be one of the worst things that could ever happen to Trump. \u201cIt is the death blow to Donald,\u201d Cohen said. \u201dAnd I\u2019ll tell you, during my tenure at the Trump Organization, I can tell you this has always been his biggest fear. That he would lose money, that he would lose all of his money, and that he would no longer be considered the mega-billionaire that he tried to portray himself as.\u201d<\/p>\n *The ban was supposed to be<\/em> permanent<\/em><\/a>, but then you-know-who let him<\/em> back on<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n