Trump's Business Troubles Trivia Quiz

Answer: Trump Ice

In 2015 Trump turned a slight profit on the sales of Trump Ice,
; the other three beverages had been long out of business.

Trump Fire and Trump Power both never made it to market. Patents were filed in 2004, and abandoned by 2006. Trump's American Pale Ale went out of business in 2007.

Answer: True

The game, originally released in 1988 by Milton Bradley, sold fewer than 800,000 copies in over two years on the market. This was despite Donald Trump guaranteeing a 2 million unit order.

14 years later Hasbro tried to re-release the game after Trump rejoined the American zeitgeist with "The Apprentice". That game too sold very few copies and was off the market within a year.

Answer: New Jersey Generals

Trump bought the team after the inaugural USFL season. The league at the time played in the spring, and didn't compete with the NFL. He immediately started trying to push the other owners into moving to the fall, which they agreed to do for the 1986 season. After the 1985 championship game the league folded, along with all of its member teams.

Answer: Ivanka

The magazine was known as "Trump Magazine" from 2007 to its closure in 2009. Prior to that it was known as "Trump Style" and "Trump World" from 1998 through 2006.

In its early days the magazine was distributed for free in hotel rooms owned by Trump's companies. Once the magazine, released quarterly, was sold on news stands it never gained a following. It had less than 100,000 paid subscribers at its peak.

Answer: False

The steaks were just rebranded Buckhead Beef steaks. Trump went into business with them under the name "Trump Steaks" as part of a deal struck when he filed bankruptcy on another of his businesses.

The CEO of Buckhead at the time, Jerry Levin, said they sold less than $50,000 worth of steaks in the two months they were on the shelves.

Answer: GoTrump.com

The website ran as a travel booking site from 2006-07, but Trump maintained ownership of the URL. During his campaign for office the site directed back to official campaign site.

Answer: Telephone communications

The official trademark said the company would provide "corporate telephone communication services".

That was filed in 1990, by 1992 the company let the trademark go, without ever making a single cent of profit.

Answer: Trump Entrepreneur Initiative

The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative was supposed to be a school that taught students real estate tips and tricks that were the same used by Donald Trump himself.

Instead students were charged up to $34,995 for little to no instruction. The school hired uneducated people, sometimes with criminal backgrounds to speak at seminars and provided little else according to multiple lawsuits filed against Trump and the school.

On Nov. 18, 2016 Trump settled several lawsuits for $25 million, which avoided a trial.

Answer: Eastern Air Shuttle

Trump took about nearly $300 million in loans in 1988, and eventually bought out the planes and air routes from Eastern Air, for their shuttle between New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and Newark New Jersey in 1989.

By 1991 Trump was unable to make the monthly interest payments on the debt and let the company go to its creditors. American Airlines eventually bought out the company.

Answer: 3

Following the third bankruptcy on the casino properties, including the Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Marina, Trump Plaza and a riverboat casino in Indiana, Donald Trump was forced to step down at the Chief Executive Officer for Trump Entertainment Resorts.

The bankruptcy was brought on when the company missed a payment on a $53.1 million bond.