Exactly. Oprah didn't have a small loan of a million dollars to start her businesses. She had to work from the bottom up.
True, she had to raise a lot more than that to start syndication of her show and then financing Harpo with. You think it all came entirely out of her own pocket, or did she have to arrange financing?
And, Trump's dad wouldn't have given him a red cent to start his construction business with if he wasn't a very competent manager and deal maker. Few 'rich kid's' parents would in those days, despite the anecdotal stories of a few who did. He was no trust fund baby with some no show job in Daddy's ofifices. Trump didn't benefit from AA programs, either. He is just as self made as Oprah is; they both took advantage of educational opportunities available, courtesy of American taxpayers, of which neither paid for themselves.