loan of a million dollar. i came into manhattan and i had to pay him back. >> i started with a million dollar loan. i built a billion dollar company. >> my father gave me a small loan and i built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars. >> i built that into a massive empire and i paid my father back that loan. >> donald trump, the brand, was based on that story, the story of self-made billions. but a stunning new new york times investigation disputes that. >> for 18 months in a locked room at "the new york times," three journalist poured over tens of thousands of documents going back decades learning that the future president and his siblings received more than a billion dollars from their parents in the process, helping, according to the times, to hide much of that family fortune from the irs. moments ago the president responded to the times story on twitter, calling it old, boring and an oftentimes hit piece.