You obviously haven’t ever watched the Apprentice. The winners get to pick the charity they want money donated to. They choose their own favorite; Trump has nothing to do with the choices other than to pay the bill on behest of the Apprentice winner.
No. The celebrities who participate on the show donate their “winnings” to their stated charity of choice. It is actually NBC/and or the producers of Celebrity Apprentice (Mark Burnett) who instead of writing a check for the winnings to the “celebrity”, they write a check to the “celebrity’s chosen charity.
On "The Celebrity Apprentice," contestants donate their winnings to charities -- more than $15 million overall to date, according to the network.
"Donald made it clear that he wanted 'The Celebrity Apprentice' to be able to continue to raise millions of dollars annually for worthy causes, and now NBC and I have found an amazing new leader to do just that," executive producer Mark Burnett said.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/14/media/arnold-schwarzenegger-apprentice-nbc/
See my post # 195.
I do find it strange however that most of the gifts on the 2012 990 that match the charities chosen by the 2012 Celebrity Apprentice contestants were for $10,000. Arsenio Hall won and raised 522,100 for the Magic Johnson Foundation and Clay Aiken came in 2nd and raised 361,500 for his charity National Inclusion Project and the Donald J. Trump Foundation lists $10,000 contribution to each but Aubrey O'Day who finished 3rd and only raised 50,000 for Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) but the 990 shows Trump’s foundation donating $20,000 to GLSEN.
http://pdfs.citizenaudit.org/2013_12_PF/13-3404773_990PF_201212.pdf
Perhaps Donald Trump has some sort of agreement or arrangement with NBC and the celebrity contestants to make a $10,000 matching donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation (because it is obvious that the full amount raised for the contestants’ charities are not funneled through his foundation, otherwise it would be for a lot more – see chart below), however, that still doesn’t explain why GLSEN got more, twice as much ($20,000) from Trump’s foundation than the charities of either the winner or second place finisher in 2012 and whose charities got $10,000. It appears that the Donald J. Trump Foundation donated to the charities of the top 7 finishers of 2012, all getting $10,000 except for GLSEN who got $20,000. Why?
|
Celebrity |
Charity |
Raised |
Donald J. Trump Foundation |
|
Arsenio Hall |
Magic Johnson Foundation |
$522,100.00 |
$10,000.00 |
|
Clay Aiken |
National Inclusion Project |
$361,500.00 |
$10,000.00 |
|
Aubrey O'Day |
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network |
$50,000.00 |
$20,000.00 |
|
Lisa Lampanelli |
Gay Men's Health Crisis |
$130,000.00 |
$10,000.00 |
|
Teresa Giudice |
The NephCure Foundation |
$70,000.00 |
$10,000.00 |
|
Dayana Mendoza |
Latino Commission on AIDS |
$30,000.00 |
$10,000.00 |
|
Penn Jillette |
Opportunity Village |
$50,000.00 |
$10,000.00 |
BTW – About GLSEN (a “worthy cause”):
http://www.glsen.org/learn/about-glsen
We accomplish our goals by working in hallways across the country -- from Congress and the Department of Education to schools and district offices in your community -- to improve school climate and champion LGBT issues in K-12 education.
If Trump was really a man of principles, and completely in control of the TV show, he could have some say and some control over the charities chosen by the celebrity contestants (allow them to pick from a pre-screened list or at least disallow any dubious or immoral charities like GLSEN all together) or at least not agree to make a $10 or $20k donation from his own foundation. But no. He has no moral or ethical or any consistent political ideology (certainly not a conservative ideology).
So as a result of this, I would never donate even a single penny to the Donald J. Trump Foundation and if I donate to a charity - a veterans’ organization, I will do so directly.
If so please explain why the article says this donation is listed as part of Trump’s tax return and not the apprentice winners.
In 2012 we did not all realize the gay activism was for anything else than basic civil rights. Then they got their inch and now the miles.
Donald probably clueless as the rest of us then
No. The celebrities who participate on the show donate their “winnings” to their stated charity of choice. It is actually NBC/and or the producers of Celebrity Apprentice (Mark Burnett) who instead of writing a check for the winnings to the “celebrity”, they write a check to the “celebrity’s chosen charity.
Yes, they do. But Donald Trump ALSO personally gives to their charity along with that money you speak of. That’s the whole issue. What little I watched that show I saw time and time again when Donald would tell apprentice contestants (not necessarily the winners) often times he’d give to the charity of the ones he was about to fire off the show. So, yes Donald would personally give thousands and thousands of dollars at a time directly to their selected charity.
I wouldn’t be surprised if one season = over a million dollars that he gave directly to their charities. This I saw personally from what little I watched so it’s not something I have to research or Google.
So as a result of this, I would never donate even a single penny to the Donald J. Trump Foundation and if I donate to a charity - a veterans’ organization, I will do so directly.
I don’t blame you. Neither would I. In fact I always make sure I give directly to the charity of my choice and not to places like the United Way. As someone who is happy to see the results for Cruz in today’s primary, I still must be truthful and report what I see. Donald Trump has given as bonuses directly (not to the contestants)to the charity of the contestants, normally as a reward for a task they did or if they liked the person but was ready to fire them.
Several times he’d as, “tell me, again... what was your charity because Im going to give $10,000 on top of what you get for them on this show...” it’s because of all these times he’s done that (on what little I watched) that I know how it works.
I disagee with you about how Donald Trump gives to those charities on that TV show because you are 100% wrong.
That said, I cannot say that Donald Trump does not give to gay groups and liberal causes on his own independent of that TV show. As a matter of fact, it’s Trump’s liberal donations and tendencies that keep me hoping that Cruz ends up as the nominee but I can tell you what I know and saw from that TV show.
I haven’t watched the show in a while, but if a person is picked “manager” or “team leader”, and that team wins, the manager’s charity gets the money. So if one charity got money twice, it’s probably because the manager was picked to manage twice and the team won twice.
It shows just how focused the propaganda offensive for homosexual marriage has been in the last few years. It's all these people think about.