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Story is a lie, apprentice contest winners picked these charities.

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.