Current Events > Trump to donate $1 Million of his own money to Harvey relief.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Lo_Ping posted...

People are seriously angry that Trump donated to help people?!

It's a day that ends in y

Of course liberals are angry
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Lo_Ping posted...

People are seriously angry that Trump donated to help people?!

TheBiggerWiggle posted...

People aren't criticizing Trump for 'not donating enough.' Theyre criticizing him for the empty gesture. He plans to cut FEMA by almost 700 million. He plans to cut flood prevent efforts by almost 200 million.

It's cool though, guys. Trump is donating 1/900th of the money he's gutting from efforts like this back to Texas. What a hero!

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If there was an asteroid about to collide with Earth and Trump himself flew up and changed its trajectory, liberals would find a way to spin it so it looks bad.
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Capn Circus posted...

Trump is actually throwing down money.

Throwing money on the ground won't help though. He needs to donate it, or it will just get wet and probably not be usable or get stolen.
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voldothegr8 posted...

If there was an asteroid about to collide with Earth and Trump himself flew up and changed its trajectory, liberals would find a way to spin it so it looks bad.

Wasting all that money to fly up there
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voldothegr8 posted...

If there was an asteroid about to collide with Earth and Trump himself flew up and changed its trajectory, liberals would find a way to spin it so it looks bad.

He would charge you for it
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Do Trump fans lack basic critical thinking skills?

Here let's do an analogy (that's when you make a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation).

Let's say I punch you in the face, kick you in the balls, stamp on your stomach and then take a giant shit on your chest. And then I give you $5.

Am I:

A) A good guy
B) A miserable asshole

If you answered B, then you're getting somewhere.
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pinky0926 posted...

Do Trump fans lack basic critical thinking skills?

Yes
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pinky0926 posted...

Do Trump fans lack basic critical thinking skills?

Here let's do an analogy (that's when you make a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation).

Let's say I punch you in the face, kick you in the balls, stamp on your stomach and then take a giant shit on your chest. And then I give you $5.

Am I:

A) A good guy
B) A miserable asshole

If you answered B, then you're getting somewhere.

I'd presume your scottish blood was showing, tbh, and were just trying to say hello to an english person. Wouldn't hold it against you.
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Somehow salty losers still find a way to bash Trump about this
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HypnoCoosh posted...

Somehow salty losers still find a way to bash Trump about this

Or just anyone who can count using basic arithmetic
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HypnoCoosh posted...

Somehow salty losers still find a way to bash Trump about this

he cut hundreds of millions of dollars from federal aid disaster relief....but he SAYS he's gonna donate a whole one million of his "own" money (funneled from secret service)....what a nice guy!
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pinky0926 posted...

Do Trump fans lack basic critical thinking skills?

Here let's do an analogy (that's when you make a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation).

Let's say I punch you in the face, kick you in the balls, stamp on your stomach and then take a giant shit on your chest. And then I give you $5.

Am I:

A) A good guy
B) A miserable asshole

If you answered B, then you're getting somewhere.

The conclusion I've come to through critical thinking is...

- Trump is donating a large sum of his own money to help Harvey victims
- You have yet to prove your own charitable actions or empathy for Harvey victims

Therefore...

-No matter how much smug trolling you flood the topic with, we can conclude objectively that Trump > You
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People gotta separate the man from the President.

The President is cutting money from FEMA because he sees a better use for it.

The man is donating 1 million to those in need.

It's an easy separation if you wish to make it. He can be both a bad President (if that's your opinion) and a decent man in the same gesture.
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Mr_MacPhisto posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Do Trump fans lack basic critical thinking skills?

Here let's do an analogy (that's when you make a comparison between one thing and another, typically for the purpose of explanation).

Let's say I punch you in the face, kick you in the balls, stamp on your stomach and then take a giant shit on your chest. And then I give you $5.

Am I:

A) A good guy
B) A miserable asshole

If you answered B, then you're getting somewhere.

The conclusion I've come to through critical thinking is...

- Trump is donating a large sum of his own money to help Harvey victims
- You have yet to prove your own charitable actions or empathy for Harvey victims

Therefore...

-No matter how much smug trolling you flood the topic with, we can conclude objectively that Trump > You

Pinky is at a net 0 dollars in donations
Trump is at a net -663 million in donations.

Pinky for president!
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Knowledge_King posted...

People gotta separate the man from the President.

The President is cutting money from FEMA because he sees a better use for it.

The man is donating 1 million to those in need.

It's an easy separation if you wish to make it. He can be both a bad President (if that's your opinion) and a decent man in the same gesture.

We literally have a major disaster happening in our country right now. What could possibly be a better use for it?
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mario2000 posted...

Knowledge_King posted...

People gotta separate the man from the President.

The President is cutting money from FEMA because he sees a better use for it.

The man is donating 1 million to those in need.

It's an easy separation if you wish to make it. He can be both a bad President (if that's your opinion) and a decent man in the same gesture.

We literally have a major disaster happening in our country right now. What could possibly be a better use for it?

Building a wall.
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Mr_MacPhisto posted...

The conclusion I've come to through critical thinking is...

- Trump is donating a large sum of his own money to help Harvey victims
- You have yet to prove your own charitable actions or empathy for Harvey victims

Therefore...

-No matter how much smug trolling you flood the topic with, we can conclude objectively that Trump > You

First of all, it's amazing to me that you hold the president of the united states to exactly the same standards as me, a random poster on the internet from Scotland.

Second of all, Trump is taking away an even larger sum of money by several magnitudes that will directly make it more difficult to help victims of future disasters like this (and we can be sure there will be many more).

I dunno what else you need here. If you were the chairman of the company I worked at and you made my job redundant because you wanted to pay for a nicer security door on the office, but then you gave me $20 bucks of your own personal salary with a slap on the back and a "don't spend it all at once", guess what - I would think you were the worst kind of asshole.
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Bullet_Wing posted...

Knowledge_King posted...

People gotta separate the man from the President.

The President is cutting money from FEMA because he sees a better use for it.

The man is donating 1 million to those in need.

It's an easy separation if you wish to make it. He can be both a bad President (if that's your opinion) and a decent man in the same gesture.

The man is also scamming taxpayers to pay him for Secret Service members to stay at his resorts.

Source?

http://www.snopes.com/secret-service-broke-trump/

The Secret Service Director estimates that a significant proportion of employees will exceed federal limits on overtime pay by the end of 2017.

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shut up hoth
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SSJ-AshKetchum posted...

Bullet_Wing posted...

Knowledge_King posted...

People gotta separate the man from the President.

The President is cutting money from FEMA because he sees a better use for it.

The man is donating 1 million to those in need.

It's an easy separation if you wish to make it. He can be both a bad President (if that's your opinion) and a decent man in the same gesture.

The man is also scamming taxpayers to pay him for Secret Service members to stay at his resorts.

Source?

He makes them rent carts every time instead of leasing some for regular use.

At some point (>$65k) it starts to look bad.
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pinky0926 posted...

Let's say I punch you in the face, kick you in the balls, stamp on your stomach and then take a giant shit on your chest. And then I give you $5.

Am I:

A) A good guy
B) A miserable asshole

That isn't comparable because Trump isn't personally responsible for the storm and flooding in Texas. He isn't punching anyone in the face or kicking anyone, literally or figuratively. You could make the argument that he isn't doing enough to help stop nature from doing that, though.

Regarding the donation, Trump's amount isn't proportionate to what he can give, but it does not change the fact that one million dollars is still a lot of money, moreso than what most people will part with. I'm donating, but I admit my $10 is not really going to help anyone because it's small, and it only becomes helpful when you lump it together with many other people's donations.
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

That isn't comparable because Trump isn't personally responsible for the storm and flooding in Texas. He isn't punching anyone in the face or kicking anyone, literally or figuratively. You could make the argument that he isn't doing enough to help stop nature from doing that, though.

Regarding the donation, Trump's amount isn't proportionate to what he can give, but it does not change the fact that one million dollars is still a lot of money, moreso than what most people will part with. I'm donating, but I admit my $10 is not really going to help anyone because it's small, and it only becomes helpful when you lump it together with many other people's donations.

The overall point I'm making is that when you use your office to take away a lot of money, and then donate back an amount of money that seems like a lot but is 1) a tiny amount compared to what you're trying to take away, and 2) an even tinier amount of compared to your own wealth, it's hard to see this gesture as anything but a transparent PR move.

I don't know anything about you, but if you earned say, 50k a year then proportionately (from a percentage point of view) you're donating about as much as Trump is.

It's definitely a good gesture that you're donating $10, but did you expect any praise for it, or should we all pat you on the back for it? Would it even touch the sides of your overall worth as a human being?
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

pinky0926 posted...

Let's say I punch you in the face, kick you in the balls, stamp on your stomach and then take a giant shit on your chest. And then I give you $5.

Am I:

A) A good guy
B) A miserable asshole

That isn't comparable because Trump isn't personally responsible for the storm and flooding in Texas. He isn't punching anyone in the face or kicking anyone, literally or figuratively. You could make the argument that he isn't doing enough to help stop nature from doing that, though.

Regarding the donation, Trump's amount isn't proportionate to what he can give, but it does not change the fact that one million dollars is still a lot of money, moreso than what most people will part with. I'm donating, but I admit my $10 is not really going to help anyone because it's small, and it only becomes helpful when you lump it together with many other people's donations.

he is personally responsible for cutting FEMA
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When the Potus travels to a disaster area to survey the damage and meet the victims, it's usually a good idea to see the damage/meet the victims.

Only Dimwit Donnie would further drain Secret Service/police resources and completely ignore the disaster.
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pinky0926 posted...

The overall point I'm making is that when you use your office to take away a lot of money, and then donate back an amount of money that seems like a lot but is 1) a tiny amount compared to what you're trying to take away, and 2) an even tinier amount of compared to your own wealth, it's hard to see this gesture as anything but a transparent PR move.

I don't know anything about you, but if you earned say, 50k a year then proportionately (from a percentage point of view) you're donating about as much as Trump is.

It's definitely a good gesture that you're donating $10, but did you expect any praise for it, or should we all pat you on the back for it? Would it even touch the sides of your overall worth as a human being?

No, I don't expect any praise. I doubt most people do. Trump probably does want everyone to know about his donation. Anyway, I hope the flood victims get as much money as they need to get back to normalcy soon.
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People pointing out the cuts that he's made aren't necessarily saying "that means his donation is worthless"...its just pointing out why the cuts he made can be harmful and why we should consider keeping things like that. "he cut them because he thought it was being wasted and it could be used elsewhere"...doesn't look like such a waste now, does it? and i get that disasters like this don't happen all the time, but when the cuts he makes goes to BS (like his dumb wall project) its worth pointing out.

The Admiral posted...

stone posted...

The Admiral posted...

Trump does something unquestionably good and you guys still bitch.

Just like how when Trump does something unquestionably bad/evil, and you still defend him.

I criticize Trump all the time. If spent less time crying and being outraged and more time reading topics carefully, you'd know that.

I usually don't bother with the political topics, and I'm not one to be outraged at nothing.. if you spent more time reading topics carefully, you'd know that.
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https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/903703128834531329

uh
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Bullet_Wing posted...

Welp. Can't say Trump not keeping his word would be a surprise.

Was it his word in the first place? Or the press secretary's?
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Antifar posted...

Bullet_Wing posted...

Welp. Can't say Trump not keeping his word would be a surprise.

Was it his word in the first place? Or the press secretary's?

Don't worry, the money will materialize 4 months later after tons of public pressure on him to not be a complete piece of shit.
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UrCa1988 posted...

Antifar posted...

Bullet_Wing posted...

Welp. Can't say Trump not keeping his word would be a surprise.

Was it his word in the first place? Or the press secretary's?

Don't worry, the money will materialize 4 months later after tons of public pressure on him to not be a complete piece of shit.

Because that kind of thinking has worked out wonderfully for us these past eight months. We have a moral responsibility to continuing to dragging him all over twitter and right out of the WH.
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Will he be making this donation through his totally not fraudulent Trump Foundation?
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Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/903703128834531329

uh

Wtf. That isn't something you declare unless it's definitely happening

Just $1 million? Cheap ass. He could easily do more.
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Axiom posted...

Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/903703128834531329

uh

Wtf. That isn't something you declare unless it's definitely happening

Hey TC any comment?

TheVipaGTS posted...

Hey TC any comment?

"But Obama"
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apocalyptic_4 posted...

Why not $2 million?

Talk about cheap.

What about all the liberal celebrities only donating a million
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Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/903703128834531329

uh

@Mal_Fet
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One million dollars is 0.025% of the President's reported wealth. If I gave $100 (roughly the same percentage of my net worth) that wouldn't earn me any glowing newspaper headlines. Why should we give a shit now? Also doesn't the President have the power to address the problem in a much more systemic way than privately give to charities? I guess not if everyone (somewhat rightfully) hates his guts.

MFBKBass5 posted...

I'll go ahead and take the bait.


1 million? That's all? The dude is a multi billionaire.



Miley Cyrus donated 500k. Trump can only double that? The dude should be donating like 10 million.

Wow. What percentage of your income did you donate?
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Lots of people in here who do not know how Fema works. The cuts have nothing to do with Harveys relief. Disasters like this have special funding agreed to. Right now they are about to send 6 billion to fema for relief.

He is just proposing cutting their every year funding. They still get emergency national funding.

Trump has donated more in 6 months than Obama did in 8 years.
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