Will he?
Trump says he’s going to donate a million dollars to the victims of Harvey. I’ll believe it when he actually does it. He has a history of saying he’s going to do things like that and then not doing them, and he does not have a history of doing things like that. Put the two together and you get a hard time believing he’ll actually do what he said he was going to do. He’s not a kind man, or a generous man, or a compassionate man. He’s a man who gets two scoops when everyone else gets one.
President Trump has pledged to donate $1 million from his personal fortune to storm victims in Texas and Louisiana.
“He would like to join in the efforts that a lot of the people that we’ve seen across this country do,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Thursday during her daily briefing at the White House.
Ms. Sanders said the president has not decided when or where he will send the donation.
Yeah I bet he hasn’t, and he’ll still be mulling over it next week and next month and next year.
Mr. Trump’s pledge is one of the largest financial commitments made by a sitting president to a charitable cause. Ms. Huckabee, pressed by reporters, said she wasn’t sure whether the donation would come from Mr. Trump’s foundation or his own bank account, saying only that it would come from the president’s “personal” funds.
His foundation isn’t his personal funds. He’s not supposed to use it to pay for portraits of himself, and I doubt that he’s supposed to use it to make donations from himself personally. If the donation comes from his “foundation,” in other words, it’s not a personal donation and he doesn’t get to call it that.
Trump reportedly donates far less of his income and assets than many of his ultra wealthy peers, and this donation comes with questions attached. In the past, he has failed to follow through on promised donations from his nonprofit foundation.
Quite so. He wouldn’t even comp his facilities for a charity event one of his sons put on.
This is a sideshow. I would have thought it would be the duty of the president to muster the resources of the state to treat the victims of hurricane Harvey as humanely and as equitably as possible. If he wishes to make a personal donation, that’s nice, but in the grand scheme of things it’s a complete irrelevance.
Will he?
Yes, he will. But that’s assuming that the press will continue to ask him about it and to demand evidence. If they are persistent, they will embarrass him into actually giving.
I would also point out that if he is a billionaire, then a million dollars is 1/1000th of his fortune. Sort of like if I donated $3.
It is a sideshow, but the depth and breadth of his turpitude interest me.
Trump Paradox. It seems everything he says is of interest but nothing he does is interesting. It’s because he does not do anything.
There’s nothing close to a guarantee even of that. I think the chance that he’ll ignore and lie his way out of it as usual is much greater.
As Trump seems to believe that he owns the US, he probably thinks that any and all government assistance is a personal donation from his own pocket.
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