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Donald Trump may talk a good talk, but did you know he also talks the most expensive talk? The real estate mogul, television personality and world’s 314th richest person gave seventeen speeches at The Learning Annex’s real estate wealth expos in 2006 and 2007. These seventeen speeches were the most expensive in the world, earning The Donald $1.5 million each. He was no stranger to The Learning Annex at that point, as he’d made a round of the world’s most expensive speeches at their 2005 expos. At the time he only earned $1 million.
Former president Ronald Reagan was no stranger to million dollar speeches either. He was paid $2 million by media company Fujisankei Communications for two speeches and a handful of press interviews during a tour of Japan. Considering the fact that this happened in 1989, we may consider these the most expensive speeches ever made. After all, adjusting for inflation reveals that he was paid over $1.7 million per speech in today’s currency.
Ronald Reagan
The fourth most expensive speech ($500,000) was made by British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the Guangda Group in 2007 while the fifth through eighth most expensive speeches ($300,000 to $450,000) were made by Bill Clinton at various points from 2001 to 2006. Rudy Giuliani made a $270,000 speech for Sage Capital Group in 2005 and finishing the list of the world’s ten most expensive speeches is Alan Greenspan’s $250,000 speech given for the Lehman Brothers in 2006.
