The last link here is fire. Required reading. I've spent a long time reading through this. You don't become a successful business man then president by letting people walk all over you. You don't gain the inherent trust of others by being a dick to the people.
Yes thats nice but what about before he was president?
1980 (October) Donald Trump selected Barbara Res to became the first women to ever be put in charge of supervising the construction of a skyscraper. Source: NYDailyNews
1986 (May): Trump voluntarily took over and saved the Central Park ice skating rink, finished ahead of schedule and under budget. Source: Forbes
1986 (September): Trump helped prevent foreclosure on a family farm whose owner had committed suicide to try to save his land. Source: NYT
1986 (October): Trump Receives The Ellis Island Medal of Honor is awarded each year in celebration of "patriotism, tolerance, brotherhood and diversity" (this is where the picture of him with Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali came from). Source: Snopes
1988 (July): Trump's private jet carrying a critically ill 3-year-old Jewish boy from California to New York for medical treatment. Source: Snopes
1990 (April): Trump called on the family at its home after their son, Ryan White, died of AIDS at age 18. Source: NYT
1991 (November): Trump leaps from his limo to stop a mugger beating a man with a baseball bat
1991 (November): Trump speaks in front of The House Task Force on Urgent Fiscal Issues to discuss the credit shortage in the U.S. and whether it is stifling America’s economic recovery. Source: CSPAN
1992 (December): Trump helps lost boy find the hotel lobby. Source: Hughes Entertainment
1997 (April): How Trump Fought Antisemitism and Racism in Palm Beach Two Decades Ago. Source: spectator / WSJ
1997 (November): Donald Trump and Mel Farr Team Up to Help Young Detroit Artists Appear at Carnegie Hall. Source: prnewswire
2000 (February): Donald Trump's Advocate Interview Where He Defends Gays, Mexicans. Source: Advocate
2000 (December): Donald Trump Helps Little Girl with Bone Disease. Source: Clip from Maury show
2001 (September): Donald Trump was at ground zero after the September 11th attacks. He sent over 200 of his own people to look for survivors in the wreckage. Source: NBC
2006 (October): Donald Trump’s flagpole got fined $1250 per day, he sued the city citing the 1st amendment. Eventually they cut a deal ($100,000) that benefited Iraq War Veterans, the American flag and/or the local VA hospital. Source: Snopes
2006 (December): Trump gives Miss USA, Tara Conner, a second chance after she fails a drug test. Source: Fox News
2008 (August): Donald The Benevolent: Trump Saves Ed McMahon's Home. Source: Business Insider
2008 (November): After Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother, and nephew were murdered, Trump sheltered her and her family at the Trump International Hotel & Tower free of charge. Source: People
2010 (May): 6 years later, Trump honors a 2010 promise to use Newton business if he ran for president. Source: weareiowa.com
2011 (June): Robert Kraft says after his wife died Trump called every week for a year to console him. Source: Business Insider
2011 (November): Trump and his siblings gave a $1mil gift to the hospital that treated their parents. Source HSS.edu
2013 (November): Trump offered a $10,000 reward to the Buffalo bus driver who stopped a young woman from leaping off a bridge to her death in 2013. Source: Fox News
2014 (November): After Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi was released from a prison in Mexico, Donald sent him $10,000 to help get him back on his feet. Source: IJR
2016 (April): Donald Trump Makes $100,000 Donation to 9/11 Museum. Source: NBC
2016 (August): Trump appoints new campaign manager: Kellyanne Conway who would go on to be the first female campaign manager of a successful presidential campaign
2017 Profile: A Quick Look at Donald Trump's Philanthropy: Health, Human Services, NYC Community, and many others. Source: Inside Philanthropy
93 page list of Trumps charitable contributions over the last 5 years
Donald Trump kept the Harlem Hoops program alive after learning the man who ran it was killed during the September 11th attacks (His name was removed from their site before i started archiving links to preserve the data that was being removed)
AskReddit: Serious- People who have met or dealt with Donald Trump
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5d8zop/serious_people_who_have_met_or_dealt_with_donald/
Amazing list...thanks for posting this!
Thanks for this!
The last link here is fire. Required reading. I've spent a long time reading through this. You don't become a successful business man then president by letting people walk all over you. You don't gain the inherent trust of others by being a dick to the people.
Love this list!