Trump's boast about his philanthropy but his giving falls short of his words

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the fall of 1996, a charity called the Association to Benefit Children held a ribbon-cutting in Manhattan for a new nursery school serving children with AIDS. The bold-faced names took seats up front.

There was then-Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani ® and former mayor David Dinkins (D). TV stars Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford, who were major donors. And there was a seat saved for Steven Fisher, a developer who had given generously to build the nursery.

Then, all of a sudden, there was Donald Trump.

Nobody knew he was coming, said Abigail Disney, another donor sitting on the dais. Theres this kind of ruckus at the door, and I dont know what was going on, and in comes Donald Trump. [He] just gets up on the podium and sits down.

Trump was not a major donor. He was not a donor, period. Hed never given a dollar to the nursery or the Association to Benefit Children, according to Gretchen Buchenholz, the charitys executive director then and now.

But now he was sitting in Fishers seat, next to Giuliani.

Frank Gifford turned to me and said, Why is he here?  Buchenholz recalled recently. By then, the ceremony had begun. There was nothing to do.

Just sing past it, she recalled Gifford telling her.

So they warbled into the first song on the program, This Little Light of Mine, alongside Trump and a chorus of children with a photographer snapping photos, and Trump looking for all the world like an honored donor to the cause.

Afterward, Disney and Buchenholz recalled, Trump left without offering an explanation. Or a donation. Fisher was stuck in the audience. The charity spent months trying to repair its relationship with him.

I mean, whats wrong with you, man? Disney recalled thinking of Trump, when it was over.

For as long as he has been rich and famous, Donald Trump has also wanted people to believe he is generous. He spent years constructing an image as a philanthropist by appearing at charity events and by making very public even nationally televised promises to give his own money away.

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Interesting read.

Why was he giving$ to a bogus museum in the hq of the Salerno crime family?

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