Trump Is a Disgusting Pig and a Liar. So What Else Is New?

He finally did announce who gets the money.  The Washington Post says he gave it, but I doubt it.   In fact, the story goes back and forth between "gave" or "went to" and "would give" or "would get", and in the end admitted: 

It was not immediately clear, from the White House's statement whether the charities had received the donations or whether the checks would arrive in the coming days.

I wouldn't hold my breath.  If nobody follows up, they're likely to get stiffed.  (And even if they get a check, it could be from the Trump Foundation, which is money other people have donated.) So in light of Trump's pledge, this is worth repeating:

In the fall of 1996, a charity called the Association to Benefit Children held a ribbon-cutting in Manhattan for a new nursery school serving children with AIDS [with major donors seated on the dais]. And there was a seat saved for Steven Fisher, a developer who had given generously to build the nursery.

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“Nobody knew he was coming,” said Abigail Disney, another donor sitting on the dais. “There’s this kind of ruckus at the door, and I don’t know what was going on, and in comes Donald Trump. [He] just gets up on the podium and sits down.”

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Trump was not a major donor. He was not a donor, period. He’d never given a dollar to the nursery or the Association to Benefit Children, according to Gretchen Buchenholz, the charity’s executive director then and now.

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“Frank Gifford turned to me and said, ‘Why is he here?’ ” Buchenholz recalled recently. By then, the ceremony had begun. There was nothing to do.

  WaPo

Oh, yes there was. Tell him to take a seat in the audience. He's gotten away with shit all his life because people let him.

Afterward, Disney and Buchenholz recalled, Trump left without offering an explanation. Or a donation. Fisher was stuck in the audience. The charity spent months trying to repair its relationship with him.

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For as long as he has been rich and famous, Donald Trump has also wanted people to believe he is generous. He spent years constructing an image as a philanthropist.

The best way to do that is to actually be one.

A months-long investigation by The Washington Post has not been able to verify many of Trump’s boasts about his philanthropy.

Instead, throughout his life in the spotlight, whether as a businessman, television star or presidential candidate, The Post found that Trump had sought credit for charity he had not given — or had claimed other people’s giving as his own.

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In all, The Post was able to identify $7.8 million in charitable giving from Trump’s own pocket since the early 1980s.

In public appearances, Trump often made it appear that he gave far more.

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Instead, The Post found that his personal giving has almost disappeared entirely in recent years.

Another indication that he's broke.

“If your worldview is only you — if all you’re seeing is a mirror — then there’s nobody to give money to,” Schwartz said. “Except yourself.”

Continue reading.

It seems that, after that story, he actually followed up on some promises, but not in the millions.  Apparently, one of those fulfilled promises has been the one to donate his presidential salary ($78,333 quarterly).  But there have been only two pay periods so far.  Without the income from charities holding events at Mar-A-Lago enriching him, he may choose to keep that salary.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.