Donald Trump Should Have Stayed Home
Well, Donald Trump does it again! Or, rather, doesnât do it again. In other words, Donald Trump said he was going to make a YUUUUGE donation to the victims of the Louisiana flood during his recent âno, this isnât a photo-op this is me being presidential!â photo-op last weekâŠbut he hasnât.
Wow. What a loser.
When Donald Trump made his ill-advised and unasked for trek down to Louisiana, bearing a truckload of Play Doh to people in desperate need of food and water, he promised an additional $100,000 donation. Of course, the donation was to go to a Baton Rouge church, and not just any church, but the church of anti-LGBT hate group leader Ton Perkins. Perkins is the churchâs interim pastor, as well as the president of the Family Research Council, which condemns abortion, homosexuality and what it refers to as âtransgenderism.â  But hey, a donation is a donation, right? Even if the money is promised to a rabid homophobic ass, it could still do some good, somewhere.
But the check has yet to arrive, and it still remains unclear whether or not Donald Trump will be donating at all.
Check, Please!
Perkins told the Washington Post that the donation Trump promised had not yet been paid. Furthermore, Perkins is uncertain whether the donation will come from Donald Trump himself, or from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which would mean that the donation would be coming from those who donated to the Foundation, not from Trump.
âIâve been told the church should [receive] it on Friday,â he wrote in an email to The Post. Perkins said he was unsure whether Trump planned to make the donation out of his own pocket, or perhaps from the Donald J. Trump Foundation â a nonprofit group that is largely filled with other donorsâ money, not Trumpâs own.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trumpâs presidential campaign, did not respond to questions about this promise.
What? You mean the Trump campaign isnât shouting proof of his presidential good will from the rooftops? The Trump campaign hasnât made the actual donation into a headline, with more photo ops?
How strange. âMany people sayâ that it might be because he isnât very good at making good on his charitable promises.
And speaking of photo ops, letâs take a look at that magnificent, beneficent, charitable, heart-warming presidential act of Donald Trump donating a truckload of supplies and then absolutely killing himself with an earth-shattering 49 seconds of handing Play Doh out to flood-ravaged victims in need of necessities.
Yeah, But What About The Truck?
Only, about that truckâŠ
No one is certain that Donald Trump even donated the supplies within it.
Trump has been credited, by both CNN and his campaignâs state director in Louisiana, with the actual donation, but no one has been able to actually confirm the details of that. And Hope Hicks, the Trump campaignâs official spokeswoman, has not responded to queries.
Mark Stermer, the senior pastor of the church that received the truckload of supplies, said that when he met with Trump, nothing was said about any supplies being donated.
âI was where Trump was the whole time, and he didnât say one way or the other,â Stermer said.
HowâŠunTrump-like. If there is one thing Trump likes to do, itâs brag, right?
âNo Informationâ About The Truck And Where It Came From
Furthermore, the pastor said he didnât know where he even heard that Trump was responsible for the truck. It was, the pastor says, âjust an assumption.â With the pressing need of relief efforts, there has been little time spent trying to account for what was given and by whom.
âI was never told he donated [the truck]. I was just told that, âHey, this truck was the truck that was coming with Trump.â So I never heard it [as] âdonated.â
A spokesman for Ascension Parish, said of the truck, âWe donât have any information about a donation truck that came from [Trump]Â directly.â
Furthermore, Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards suggested that Trump consider giving a âsizable donationâ to the Louisiana Flood Relief Fund, run by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.
It seems unlikely that he did so. The governorâs office said it didnât know if he donated. The Foundation itself declined to commentâŠand so did the Trump campaign.
Just Another Photo Op For The Reality Star Candidate
Funny how all the good, âpresidentialâ efforts Trump makes fall apart under scrutiny. Funny, too, that a campaign that never hesitates to tout Donaldâs âgood deedsâ has suddenly fallen silent on this front. Stranger, still, how so many of Donald Trumpâs âcharitableâ acts all seem to be shams.
I hope Donald Trump enjoyed his photo-op in Louisiana. Because thatâs exactly what it was, and all that it was â but this is what happens when a reality TV star thinks he can be president.