Let Them Eat Trump Steaks Ambulatory bag of floor shavings, narcissism, and mendacity Donald Trump once ran a public company, did you know that? It sold stock and everything! CNN takes us back to those heady days of 1995, when Michael Jordan came out of retirement, Mel Gibson painted himself blue and seriously insisted you can still have freedom after they take your life, and the DVD was born. And a sharp New York real estate mogul raised $140 million in an initial public offering for stock in "Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts," with the humble ticker symbol "DJT." The company lasted all of a decade, lost money every year it was public, and was bankrupt by 2005. Many of us have pets with longer and happier lives, and certainly good old Snickers the cat never bilked investors out of a ton of money before he went to the animal hospital for his final gentle (not extreme) vetting.