Donald Trump lied (above) about his wealth to get on the Forbes 400, the business magazine's ranking of the world's richest people, posing as publicist ‘John Barron' to do so.

Writes Jonathan Greenberg in the Washington Post:

…it took decades to unwind the elaborate farce Trump had built to project an image as one of the richest people in America. Nearly every assertion supporting that claim was untrue. Trump wasn't just poorer than he said he was. Over time I have learned that he should not have been on the first three Forbes 400 lists at all. In our first-ever list, in 1982, we included him at $100 million, but Trump was actually worth roughly $5 million — a paltry sum by the standards of his super-monied peers — as a spate of government reports and books showed only much later.

When Trump was campaigning for president, it was revealed that he masqueraded as his own spokesman earlier in his career to brag about his accomplishments, his wealth, and his alleged desirability to famous women.

In May 2016, The Washington Post published an audio recording of a 1991 call from a man claiming to be on Trump's PR team, who responded to a request from People magazine reporter Sue Carswell for a comment on Trump's divorce from wife Ivana and his increasingly complicated relationship with model Marla Maples.

As “John Miller”, Trump touted his reputation as a playboy, explaining that famous actresses and even the likes of Madonna call him wanting to date him.

Trump using the pseudonyms John Miller and John Barron was a fact well-known among New York journalists at the time. Trump would eventually admit that the call to People was a “joke gone awry.” And prior to that call, in 1990, Trump said of the name ‘John Miller,' “I believe on occasion I used that name.”

Trump denied that fact:

In a phone call to NBC's “Today” program, Trump denied that he was John Miller. “No, I don't think it — I don't know anything about it. You're telling me about it for the first time and it doesn't sound like my voice at all,” he said. “I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and then you can imagine that, and this sounds like one of the scams, one of the many scams — doesn't sound like me.” Later, he was more definitive: “It was not me on the phone. And it doesn't sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that, and it was not me on the phone. And when was this? Twenty-five years ago?”

Trump continues to lie to this day, though there appears to be little to no consequence.