billions, this is a game to him.

"They are entitled to their dimes as I am entitled to my millions."

I'm not sure they'd cash the check, on principle.

It will go to the Trump Foundation. He will say "charity begins at home."

he's a blight on humanity.

also known as the UN Refugee Agency

It'll be the first time in eight years Trump gave any of his own money to it.

I would not be surprised if that is what he does.

Lie after lie after lie.

And now - "the press" will pick a charity? What an effin' liar!

He could get himself some good publicity each month by having representatives of various charitable causes receiving his monthly paycheck. Why wouldn't he do that? Your rationale is likely the reason.

Planned Parenthood and ACLU. Period!

Since he has not divested all his businesses
and since he opened his mouth and said he would donate business profits...

We all know he is just kicking the can and hoping no one will remember by year end.

while WE are hoping he will not be around to see year end.

I know that would feel odd to someone like Trump who hasn't paid a dime of federal taxes for two decades while living like a king, but he should try supporting the government for a change instead of being a complete leech.

Did anyone else detect some newfound teeth in the press corps with Spicer this morning?

Forcing the MSM to politicize themselves.

Pick a charity he approves of; seen as compliant.
Pick a charity he doesn't approve of; more grist for the mill of attacks on their legitimacy.

Tell him to fuck off.

when he thinks people have forgotten.

One year seems about the right time. He won't show his tax returns, so we would have to rely on the charities to tell us if they received the gift.

Good grief. Does Spicer think we were all born yesterday? If his intention right now is to donate, why doesn't he go ahead and donate right now? He should give the damn money to the Federal Treasury to offset at least a small fraction of the taxpayer money he wastes in a single weekend. His entire annual salary doesn't even amount to one day's worth of that.

No brainer.

Bet the majority of America - not just the majoirty of the press would agree with me

He'll "donate it at the end of the year". Just like he "donates to charity" all the time. In the mean time, he's collecting $400K (minus federal and NYS taxes), a $50K expense account, a $100K travel account, and a the privilege of using his position as President to get around the Constitutional Emollients clause and make millions more at his real business.

He'll probably donate the use of his "brand" as an "in kind" value and stiff whatever charity he's supposed to be sending the donation to at the end of the year by $399,999.00 - and get a tax write-off for doing it, just as he's always done.

In Drumpf world, if the charity shows that the great "Donald J. Trump" thought that charity was good enough to add his name to it, it would obviously bring in twice or three times the donations, because everyone will see it's a great charity and will give them all sorts of money just to be there with "Team Trump".

Haele

have to be like a game or a reality TV show?

They give a list of organizations considered liberal and it's "Liberal media wants to kill babies!" or something along those lines.

Give it to the ACLU and it'll be "Liberal media wants to attack me through the ACLU!"

Etc..

Trump's fucking with them. Everything is a game to him. He enjoys jerking people about, getting them to debase themselves for money, and this ploy is no different. He's going to use it against the Press.

But I would suggest the $$ would go to the families of all the people Putin has
had killed in order to try to hide that fact that Russia hacked our elections in
order to install Trump into power?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028778465

REALLY hammer in that irony.

Pay your damn taxes first you faker.

because who believes he would actually donate anything to anyone?

which is practically every time he opens his mouth and sound comes out.

Who cares what the press corps, or anyone else says,nor thinks about to whom Donald Trump gives the money. He has never seemed to care what others think about what he says, or does. So, why is he now pushing this on the press corps? If push comes to shove he could just give the money back to the taxpayers via giving it back to the Treasury Department.

got triple-negative breast cancer. Winner can apply the prize to medical bills.

breitbart and infowars tell him to donate it to some guy that paints a 6 ft picture of him looking like Napolean which in turn he'll have placed on an easel in the entry to the West Wing.

That serves the uninsured.

...waffle word without any teeth.

Dollars to donuts his "intention" will change when the times comes. He will decide there is no charity worthy of his largesse.

Here's the publicity stunt bs:

Schwarzenegger turned down 'petty cash' salary
22/01/2013

http://www.newshub.co.nz/entertainment/schwarzenegger-turned-down-petty-cash-salary-2013012306

Arnold Schwarzenegger has called his estimated US$187,000 Governor of California annual salary "petty cash".

...Arnold refused to accept a wage while he was governor, instead pumping any money he would have made back into the community. He recently claimed he could have made US$200 million from acting during the time and has now insisted he had no need for the salary.

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And here's what was behind it:

Tuesday, Feb 15, 2005 07:51 AM PST
The truth about Arnold

http://www.salon.com/2005/02/15/arnold_16/

The movie star poses as a corruption-fighting moderate. But since taking office, he's pursued a blatantly right-wing agenda while raking in big bucks from special interests -- and ignoring his own financial conflicts.


On a regular basis, the multimillionaire governor makes important executive decisions that could affect the health of his personal wealth reported to be as much as $100 million.

...So far, Schwarzenegger has not recused himself from signing or vetoing any legislation that could directly or indirectly benefit his personal finances.

To shield a wealthy government official from being paralyzed by possible conflicts of interest, the Political Reform Act allows the officeholder to place assets in a blind trust managed by a “disinterested party.” ...

In apparent violation of the reform act, Schwarzenegger designated as his trustee his close friend and financial advisor, Paul D. Wachter.

“We’ve been friends for 25 years and been in business together for less than 15 years,” Wachter tells Salon about his relationship with Schwarzenegger. “I am his main person in the whole business, financial, legal area. And, obviously, a close confidant. As the blind trustee, I manage all his money.”

It doesn’t take a doctorate in ethics to see that Wachter is exactly the wrong person to serve as the disinterested trustee. “‘Disinterested party’ excludes family and business associates,” says Tracy Westen, Stern’s colleague at the Center for Governmental Studies.

What a fucking joke. As others have suggested, the press corps should vote for Planned Parenthood!!

How Trumpty is going to game this until the end of the year, when he'll take a big fat tax deduction for a charitable donation, which will be something like $150,000 out of the treasury and, by extension, out of taxpayers' pockets.