Posted on 12/27/2015 3:11:11 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
How miserly is The Donald?
From 1990 through 2009, Trump has personally donated a total of just $3.7 million to his foundation, which was incorporated in 1987. In fact, the billionaire is not even the largest contributor to his own charitable organization.
Tax returns show that World Wrestling Entertainment has given Trump’s foundation a total of $5 million in return for the developer’s assistance in working a couple of televised angles along with WWE boss Vince McMahon. The WWE gave Trump’s foundation $4 million in 2007 for his help in promoting that year’s WrestleMania festivities, and another $1 million in 2009, when Trump (pictured below with McMahon) pretended to purchase part of the WWE empire.
The real estate titan’s foundation has also banked $205,000 from media outlets and supermarket tabloids in return for exclusive photos (People magazine, for example, paid the foundation $150,000 in 2006 for the first shots of Trump’s newborn son Barron).
During the past two decades, the Trump foundation has made charitable contributions totaling a paltry $6.7 million.
Helmsley, by comparison, gave $5 million to the American Red Cross when New Orleans was submerged, and, post-9/11, she gave $5 million to the New York Police and Fire Widows and Children*s Benefit Fund.
In 2006, Trump’s foundation did give $1000 to the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Fund, a controversial Scientology program (co-founded by Tom Cruise) that promoted a *purification rundown* for firemen and others who inhaled toxins while working near the smoldering remains of the World Trade Center.
How much has Al Gore, also a billionaire, donated?
Looks like ‘Opposition Researchers’ are having to earn their money on Trump, pickins is slim.
The Clintons are famous for donating used underwear were (and still) rarely scrutinized for their cheapness. These days they donate considerably more, in cash, to their own freaking foundation.
Most liberals are cheapskates anyhow. They hire illegal workers for domestic chores and donate peanuts to charities, unless it is OPM.
Please tell us how Trump “could secure the nomination now”. That somehow sounds like advocating a crowning rather than working for it through Primaries.
So he is similar to Ben Franklin?
“Charities” are all too often SCAMS for grifters, NO SHOW JOBS for administrators, excuses for self congratulatory PARTIES for rich people, and terribly INEFFICIENT methods of getting resources to people.
And Curly did a great job of referencing bible versus that admonish publicizing ones charity, because it then becomes an exercise in ego and self aggrandizement.
Anyone who is slightly objective, and able to put their evil dark jealous anti Trump hearts in check, can see and feel the man is bursting with compassion and kindness...and old fashioned patriotism.
As with everything else in his life, Trump will do it his way.
Q. Have any of the other candidates donated more money to charity?
A. No.
How many people have a job thanks to Donald Trump?
And how much do their donations add up to?
Ted is my first choice. I for one don’t find these “hit pieces” beneficial.
On a side note... I wonder how much money the Clintoons have donated to Charity...not including the Clinton Foundation Charity.
So let me get this straight, Trump works a WWE event, gets paid for it in the form of a donation for his foundation and that money doesn’t count?
As far as I know, Trump PAID HIS TAXES. Therefore he has given more to deadbeats than 99.999% of Americans.
As to charities - they will flood your mailbox, spread your name (to other ‘charities’, a kind of sucker list they have), and crash your phone service, once they know who you are. We had a housemate 15 YEARS AGO who made the mistake of giving to a charity in his name - for years we got more solicitations from other charities than private mail, and even today we still aren’t left alone.
Most people in Trump’s shoes NEVER give to charities under their own name, for that reason.
St Thomas Little Ricky.
You seem to be one of those who personify that term.
The more you thump the more I like Trump. < snicker >
Ayn Rand
"America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way."
"What is the moral code of altruism? The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value.
"Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice—which means; self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction—which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good."
"Do not hide behind such superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime. The issue is whether you must keep buying your life, dime by dime, from any beggar who might choose to approach you. The issue is whether the need of others is the first mortgage on your life and the moral purpose of your existence. The issue is whether man is to be regarded as a sacrificial animal. Any man of self-esteem will answer: "No." Altruism says: "Yes."
"Even though altruism declares that "it is more blessed to give than to receive," it does not work that way in practice. The givers are never blessed; the more they give, the more is demanded of them; complaints, reproaches and insults are the only response they get for practicing altruism's virtues (or for their actual virtues). Altruism cannot permit a recognition of virtue; it cannot permit self-esteem or moral innocence. Guilt is altruism’s stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuation. If the giver is not kept under a torrent of degrading, demeaning accusations, he might take a look around and put an end to the self-sacrificing. Altruists are concerned only with those who suffer—not with those who provide relief from suffering, not even enough to care whether they are able to survive. When no actual suffering can be found, the altruists are compelled to invent or manufacture it.
"The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality—with the code of self-sacrifice—is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state. Soviet Russia is the ultimate result, the final product, the full, consistent embodiment of the altruist morality in practice; it represents the only way that that morality can ever be practiced."
Charity begins at home.
Too bad so many consider FR and candidates as wasting their money these days...
Now for a short public service announcement to all on FR:
We need to ensure we don't get another Obama-like America Hater as the next President.
The best way to ensure that is to actively support a candidate as the next President.
I prefer Cruz and my money goes to his campaign, hence the Cruz link. If you like someone else, donate to him/her (find your own link to do it) and if you use FR and don't donate, then please don't complain about the welfare leeches or those who have Obama Phones because, functionally, you are no different than any other who enjoys the fruits of others' work for your own benefit.
PS - If you are one of those who cannot afford even a small donation to FR or a candidate, God Bless and happy FReeping!.....
GO CRUZ!! Keep it up Trump!!
You forgot Matthew 6:2-4 --
2 “So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
Huh.
It’s his money.
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