He has personally handed over one million dollars from his own pocket to US veteran charities. How many other people in the world have done that?
The total handed over so far from his impromptu fund raiser is 5.6 million dollars. As explained in the press conference it took time to properly vet the charities to make sure they met required standards. The press have been disgusting throughout all of this process. It is so beautiful to see him roast them for their behaviour.
David Gelbaum and Alan Fournier, to name two. Don't think they bothered to brag about it on national TV, nor were they bullied by the press holding their feet to the fire to pony up.
He has personally handed over one million dollars from his own pocket to US veteran charities. How many other people in the world have done that?
The total handed over so far from his impromptu fund raiser is 5.6 million dollars. As explained in the press conference it took time to properly vet the charities to make sure they met required standards. The press have been disgusting throughout all of this process. It is so beautiful to see him roast them for their behaviour.
Oooh lets post the whole masterful conference then. It all gets listed. The amount of times that trump rips into the press and the vets behind him crack up is just wonderful.
A glorious stumping of the liberal media who project their own dishonesty and worthlessness onto Trump. The vets know he's all heart.
Regardless of whether he is right or wrong, I simply don't want a president who speaks and treats his opponents they way he does. Find another way to call out a reporter, besides calling him a "sleazebag."
Do not question, doubt or scrutinize The Messiah for he will smite thee with great vengeance...
(...) The donations Trump announced on Tuesday were related to a Jan. 28 fundraiser for veterans that he held in Des Moines, on a night when Trump skipped a GOP debate due to a feud with its host, Fox News. That night, Trump said he'd raised $6 million. Most of it came from other donors, but Trump said he would give $1 million of his own.
After that, however, Trump became reluctant to release details about what had become of the money. At times, too, his staff gave out false information: More than a week ago, Trump's campaign manager said that Trump had already given out his $1 million in personal gifts.
As it turned out, he had not. Trump made his $1 million donation last Monday evening, after a day of inquiries on Twitter — Trump's preferred social-media platform — by The Washington Post.
On Tuesday, Trump was giving away donations that had originally come in from other people, and were routed through his Donald J. Trump Foundation. He said that, in all, the fundraiser had brought in $5.6 million — but that more money would come in.
Trump detailed new gifts to more than a dozen veterans groups, most of them $75,000 each. By Tuesday afternoon, several of them had confirmed to The Post that they had indeed received the checks. Trump said that all of the money had been paid out, except for a single check to one group waiting for IRS authorization.
But, even as Trump described these gifts, he would interrupt to blast the press again.
"The press should be ashamed of themselves. And on behalf of the vets, the press should be ashamed of themselves," Trump said at one point. "Instead of being, like, 'Thank you very much, Mr. Trump,' or 'Trump did a good job,' You say, 'Well who got it? Who got it?'. ... And it makes me look very bad."
The presumptive GOP nominee also hurled insults at reporters in the audience, whom he accused of liberal bias and of attempting to diminish his efforts.
"You're a sleaze because you know the facts, and you know the facts well,” Trump said in one instance, pointing at a reporter from ABC News.
By law, nonprofit charities like Trump's foundation are not supposed to participate in political campaigns. At this event, however, Trump described the nonprofit's gifts at what was clearly a campaign event — at which he bashed his rivals, and talked up his poll numbers. He spoke from a podium that said "Make America Great Again," the slogan of his campaign.
No, I don't think Trump initially wanted anything to do with actually being president. I'm sure it started out as an ego stroke, the ultimate commercial for the Trump brand and his next reality venture. Now his massive ego and his hubris won't let him quit, as long as he has the blind adoration of his supporters.
It's like someone dared him to ride the bull and now he won't get off.
And if he did, at this late date, who would the GOP rally behind (even if they could rally instead of attack)?
(....) Donald Trump has taught me to fear my fellow American. I don’t mean the occasional yahoo who turns a Trump rally into a hate fest. I mean the ones who do nothing. Who are silent. Who look the other way. If you had told me a year ago that a hateful brat would be the presidential nominee of a major political party, I would have scoffed. Someone who denigrated women? Not possible. Someone who insulted Mexicans? No way. Someone who mocked the physically disabled? Not in America. Not in my America.
When I see these Trump supporters on television — the commentators, the Politician’s Puttanesca (a dish to poison the body politic) — I have to wonder where they would draw the line. The answer seems to be: nowhere. They want to win. They want to beat Hillary Clinton, a calling so imperative that sheer morality must give way. Muslims and Mexicans are merely collateral damage in a war that must be fought. What about blacks or Jews? Not yet.
Maybe the talking heads on TV would draw the line at some mild version of fascism, but would the American people do the same? Here, I must hesitate. The easy yes of yesteryear has given way to awful doubt. Trump could win. He could become president, commander in chief, ruler of the Justice Department and head of the IRS. In other words, the American people could elect someone who has not the slightest appreciation for the Constitution or American tradition. When Trump insisted that he could compel a military officer to obey an illegal order, I heard the echo of jackboots on cobblestone.
In America, no one is required to follow an illegal order. It does no good to argue that Trump is just doing a shtick, that he means little of what he says, that he is all swagger and bluff. Trouble is, his supporters do not see him that way. They take him at his word.
History nags. It admonishes. “American exceptionalism” is a phrase that refers to the past, not necessarily the future. Nothing is guaranteed. I’d like to think that Americans really are exceptional, that we have an exceptional faith in democracy and the rule of law. I now have some doubt. I always knew who Trump was. It’s the American people who have come as a surprise.
World-renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking may understand the many mysteries of the universe, but even he's having a hard time grasping Donald Trump's meteoric rise in popularity.
In an interview with ITV's "Good Morning Britain" today, Hawking called Trump a "demagogue" who seemed to attract the "lowest common denominator."
...one of the signs of the Apocalypse... Steven Hawking not being able to explain "Trump".
He nailed it. Seems to be exactly his strategy. Though, I'm still not convinced Trump started this to win it.
No, I don't think Trump initially wanted anything to do with actually being president. I'm sure it started out as an ego stroke, the ultimate commercial for the Trump brand and his next reality venture. Now his massive ego and his hubris won't let him quit, as long as he has the blind adoration of his supporters.
I love it how almost everybody on this forum wants Trump NOT for president. Still he is doing like those cheap amerikan movies where the unlikely hero wins despite all the bullies around him.
It's kind of odd how our resident Trump supporters like to use words they don't seem to understand.
I love it how almost everybody on this forum wants Trump NOT for president. Still he is doing like those cheap amerikan movies where the unlikely hero wins despite all the bullies around him.
Or the pig that continues to roll in the mud despite disapproving glances.
