Sep 07, 2017 · President Donald Trump and the first lady, Melania, personally donated $1 million to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, the White House said Wednesday.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday pledged $1 million in personal funds to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Louisiana, Fox News reports.
Sep 16, 2017 · President Trump has acted on his promise to donate $1 million of his personal fortune to charities helping with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts, the White House said.
Sep 06, 2017 · By. John Patrick Pullen. September 6, 2017 1:41 PM PDT. The White House revealed the recipients of President Trump’s $1 million Hurricane Harvey relief donation on Wednesday, including well ...
Sep 01, 2017 · The White House announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump would donate $1 million of his “personal money” to the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts —but the ghostwriter of the president ...
The statistics for the entirety of Donald Trump’s time in office are nearly all compiled. As we did for his predecessor four years ago, we present a final look at the numbers.
In the fall of 2020, we published a preelection update to our quarterly “Trump’s Numbers” series, and on President Joe Biden’s inauguration, we examined several statistical indicators on what he inherited. But as we noted then, the books weren’t yet closed on the Trump presidency.
As a candidate, Trump proclaimed: “I am going to be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.”
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. economy began slowing down. The real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product went up in Trump’s first two years, peaking at an estimated 2.9% in 2018 — the highest since 2005. But the economy grew only 2.3% in 2019 and the bottom fell out in 2020.
Household Income — Household income rose briskly under Trump before declining last year due to the pandemic.
Murders and aggravated assaults shot up dramatically under Trump, while most other types of crime declined.
Sales and production of guns slowed during Trump’s presidency — until COVID-19 concerns and protests against policing triggered huge spikes last year.
Donald Trump announced his reelection bid as soon as he took office four years ago and raised more than $1 billion in the 2020 cycle, according to OpenSecrets. This amount includes donations to his official campaign committee and outside groups such as single-candidate super PACs and hybrid PACs or Carey committees.
Walter “Buck” Buckley, the cofounder and CEO of Actua Corp., a publicly traded venture capital firm that underwent liquidation in 2018, donated $1.1 million.
The billionaire investor and close friend of the president is the chair, CEO and cofounder of publicly traded investment firm The Blackstone Group. He was chosen to be part of Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups (Financial Services) in April 2020.
9.Warren Stephens, Stephens Inc. — $1.5 million. He is the chair, president, and CEO of the privately held financial services firm, Stephens Inc., which was started in 1933 by his uncle. He was chosen to be part of Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups (Financial Services) in April 2020.
4.Linda McMahon, America First Action — $4.5 million. McMahon is famous for cofounding the WWE franchise with her husband, Vince. She ran the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019 and is currently the chair of the America First Action super PAC, to which she gave millions herself.
Warren is the co-founder, chair and CEO of Energy Transfers. The Texas-based company owns and operates the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, which Democratic President Joe Biden may shut down or slow the review process of.
8.Diane Hendricks, ABC Supply — $2 million. She is at the top of Forbes’ America’s Richest Self-Made Women ranking with a net worth of $7 billion. She cofounded ABC Supply, the largest wholesale distributor of roofing products in the country, with her late husband in 1982.
President Donald Trump has long boasted of his philanthropy, but the overwhelming bulk of his charitable tax deductions have come from agreeing not to develop land, in some instances after he had given up on plans to do so, according to a New York Times analysis of his tax returns, and he reportedly has reneged on several pledges to donate to charity and sped up his giving after launching his presidential campaign..
Trump has reported $130 million in charitable giving on his tax returns since 2005, but $119.3 million came from easements he signed with conservation groups in which he agreed not to develop three plots of land, the Times reported, two of which he had plans for that had been stymied, as well as from a donation of land he had failed to develop to New York State for a park..
60%. That’s the share of likely voters in a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday who said Trump does not have a sense of decency, with 37% saying he does. Those numbers were flipped for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, with 64% saying he does have a sense of decency and 30% saying he does not.
Trump is being investigated by New York Attorney General Letitia James for allegedly overvaluing his assets to his lenders and on his tax returns.