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.
Trump holds HIS money so tight, every Penny so tight, that Lincoln has a nose bleed.
Trump has also said he donates the proceeds of his best selling book Art of the Deal to charity...a book which has sold over a million copies.
You’re getting sad if this is what you have resorted to. Who cares if he even has a foundation or what he contributes to it? I’m sure he has given plenty to various people and causes over the years, but i really dont care if he did or didn’t. I pefer to think that the billions he and his companies have paid in taxes is more than enough contribution to society and the “common good”.
That is an important measure of character for me, especially for someone who purports to be a Christian.
Possibly if we read Matthew 6:1-4, we would understand more.
From the NIV: 1“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
In our family, even our tax accountant does not know the extent of our charity.
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Who are you going to compare as a candidate? I remember reading of the Clinton's "charity" when Bill was President. Contributions were almost nonexistent, and some were incredible. They gave Bill's old underpants to some outfit and claimed a deduction of $3.50 per pair.
This sort of tweak by a Cruz supporter is going to impact Cruz negatively.
Stop it. (saying that to the original article)
Post positives about Cruz, but stop trying to negatively portray Trump. He’s very strong.
And he’s saying America needs to be for American workers. Is Cruz?
Post your own financial giving and let’s compare you vs. Trump...
It’ll be revealing.
Post.
Wait until his tax returns are released, and compare them to the others.
in other words Trump isn’t using his foundation as a tool to reduce his taxes. You have a problem that this strategy must make Trump give a higher percentage of his income to the US Treasury?
Talking about cheapskates for a second, I remember Bill & Hillary itemizing used underwear.
Exactly what I was thinking. Maybe some even gets channeled to the Mideast.
“Trump*s a nice guy, but he*s cheap.”
I have no problem with that! We need someone in Washington that is frugal. Being able to be in 1st place while spending less than the others is proof he is what we need.
I’ve managed to accumulate enough money to retire at 54, hubby is 50. We made a lot, and while coworkers were buying bigger houses, cars, pools, vacations - we saved.
A lot of people who work for themselves have to be frugal for the down times, and it’s a habit not easily broken. And why should they - it’s a good way to be. Those that employ others and pay huge taxes support the country. It’s better than a career politician who lived off of taxpayers.
“Uh, it is his money. Is his supposedly small level of charitable contributions a high priority for you? I think a lot of us are more concerned with illegal immigration, unsustainable trade deficits, crushing debt and government spending, our nations weak position in the world, etc. But I guess you’ve got your priorities.”
Thank you for the dose of sanity in a ‘let’s attack Trump for everything ‘ world.
Remember, the money that Clinton and Obama donate, is really your money.
I feel like I hit the wrong button and ended up on Huffington Post, somehow.
That there is not sufficient public “evidence” of charity, is no proof whatsoever that Donald Trump is miserly with other people.
The records cited in the piece indicate those contributions/donations which are public, having tax consequences. But by many accounts, the legendary (and it is if you talk to people who live in NYC) Trump generosity is usually person to person, the kind of charity that never finds its way to a charitable foundation or tax return. Evidently the AJC just published the story yesterday of the farm mortgage he paid off some years ago. There is no tax deduction for that. However, there have been many, many of these kinds of stories over the years about DJT, long before he was ever running for office. As you have heard, some of them have involved the use of his plane. If you don’t know how much $$ and liability is involved in that, you never met a private duty pilot. And unless the recipient has registered him or herself as a charity, there is no deduction for that either. Point being, perhaps he is following the biblical notion of doing good in private. I, for one, am not terribly impressed with people whose contributions go only to politics, or go to the left wing social justice nonsense organizations, which are ruining this country in rapid fashion. And then they take tax deductions for them, forcing me subsidize their *ahem* generosity. I’m perfectly okay with someone learning of a person’s real need, reacting to it with his own money, and not publishing a list of these deeds.
I think that if Senator Cruz saw what you were doing here right now, presumably on his behalf, he would tell you to knock it off and stop “helping” him.
“. I gave to a few when I came into a small windfall and I now never stop getting emails and letters”
I get emails from Trump, and not one asks for money. I’ve heard from those that donated to other campaigns (Cruz) that they get letters weekly begging for more.
“Hogwash”...dude you are wasting your time and energy!!! Trump creates jobs....thousands of them. Good paying jobs that make money available to support multiple charities. Keep bad mothing DJT...you only show what a fool you are....because with your rant...you only bring more voters to DJT support!!! Keep it up!!! Boy....you low life are really scraping the bottom of the barrel!!! LOL!!!
+1. Thank you.
Same experience for me too.
Sorry, but I wouldn't vote for Clinton if she was running against Bernie Sanders..
Cruz or Trump only...
Over the years prior to Trump running for president I have heard various sources say he is “cheap”. On the other side I have heard that he pays his people well including generous bonuses. Do you have any insight relating to the pay reports?
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