He says he gave Hitlery a donation, and later “ordered” her to come to his most recent wedding. So the “tribute” works both ways.
You don’t last very long in business if you get a rep as a BSer; others won’t do business with you. Politicians OTOH make their bones lying..
I’m sure he’s given money to the mob, too. He may not know the exact route it took, but it got to them.