In the U.S. real estate developers seldom have personal assets at risk, thanks to corporate law. Subcontractors however are often sole proprietors or partnerships which provides much less legal protection.

Trump's bankers, given his multiple bankruptcies, did at times require personal guarantees of yachts, aircraft, and secondary properties which ultimately were forfeited. As a consolation, U.S. tax law gave him credit for 18 years of tax-free living.

He lost his Waldorf equity and a casino, but his unpaid contractors often lost their homes, their children's college funds, and their retirement savings and are still burdened with tax liens.

Corporate law and tax law in the U.S. is crafted for continued consolidation of wealth. This plutocratic control of their government does not anger poor and uneducated whites; their anger is misdirected by elites at immigrants, minorities, abortions, guns and 'latte-drinking socialists'.