Donald Trump might be the world's stingiest billionaire
By Alex HeiglApril 13th, 2011, 3:39 pmComments (12)
Everyone knows Donald Trump is equal parts wealthy and insufferable. Now we can add a third descriptor: tightfisted. A look through his tax returns shows that he's not the philanthropist he'd like to cast himself as. In fact, he's not even the largest contributor to his own charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation.
From 1990 to 2009, Trump donated a princely sum of $3.7 million to the foundation — a pretty small figure for a billionaire, especially if you spread it over nineteen years. The World Wrestling Entertainment beat him, making a five-million-dollar donation spread over two years.
The Trump Foundation's donations to other charities are similarly meager: most of his donations in 2009 numbered in the thousands. And at one point, it dropped a hefty 250 dollars to the Special Olympics. Trump's web site includes lip service to the man as an "ardent philanthropist," whose charitable activities are "an integral part of his ethos." If cutting a 250-dollar check is ardent support, I can't imagine what his idea of tepid is.
Commentarium (12 Comments)
Donald Trump is also a piece of shit.
You're just jealous of his splendid hair.
and a windbag and a nut.
You're just jealous of his splendid nuts.
Rich people who crow about their generosity are typically not so.
I've been inside Trump's personal office, and he - I shit you not - has a gold-plated statue of himself in there that probably cost more than $3.7M.
Oh, and he was an asshole in person. His on-camera persona is exactly how he is off-camera. He has no redeeming personal characteristics.
No redeeming personal characteristics? The perfect candidate for President.
MR. TRUMP is very smart he Sees @L@ what i do Unless we get a president in office that will take all the jobs from china that were ours any way the UNITED STATES MAY AS WELL BE DEADTHE C,E,O,s Of all companys that took americans jobs away should be TAXED ((% and pay back what they owe Its like Ileagles Comming where we live and Getting jobs That we once had ITS Slavery All Over Again President Lincon Is RoLLinG over IN his Grave MR> TRUMP PLEASE RUN SO WE CAN GET AMERICA BACK
if you think that Trump is going to tax his fellow CEOs then I feel sorry for you...
Okay, bond. It's pretty unfair of you to take a stance against all illegal (which I assume is what Ileagles means and not sick eagles) immigrants for taking American jobs when you seem underqualified for one. I don't even have a strong stance on the issue, but I do have a strong stance on being informed. Every one of your sentences contains recycled cliches of others, and you don't understand the difference between any of the punctuation marks. Lastly, capitalization doesn't happen at random; it follows rules; look them up. Perhaps an illegal immigrant took your job because your potential employer found your disregard for grammar and unfamiliarity with typing unprofessional.
All of this lends a lot more credence to the claim in Timothy O'Brien's bio of him that he's worth far, far less than he claims: https://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/07/16/Donald-Trump-libel-case-dism...
Yes, he may merely be worth hundreds of millions. What a fraud.