The fund is at about $18.7 million dollars right now. I am not going to link to it, if you want to YOU can google it. Pretty impressive for being just 16 days old. Or is it? A guy by the name of Brian Kolfage started it. He states that “If the 63 million people who voted for Trump each pledge $80, we can build the wall. That equates to roughly 5 Billion Dollars.”
So how is it going? Lets break down some numbers for the Republican folks that hate taxes but will voluntarily tax themselves to fund the wall.
How many of the 63,000,000 people who voted for Trump have donated so far? Less than ½ of one percent (.04607%) Still about 309,000 fools have donated. The top ten donors have donated about $134,000 with the top donor donating $50,000. Must be nice to be able throw away more than what most folks earn in a year. Kolfage also says he wants the average donation to be $80. The average is actually pretty high at just over $60, but that is only 75% of what he is expecting. AND that includes the ten top donors that averaged over $13,000.
Finding daily reports of the total of the wall is kind of hard to find. GoFundMe does not put out a daily report. So I had to go to the Internet time machine. (All numbers are rounded and approximate)
12/18 $115,000 Not bad for one day
12/19 $1,039,000 WOW lots of money in two days. Went up a million bucks
12/20 $8,405,000 FOX NEWS and others RW sites are promoting like crazy.
12/21 $13,658,000 Still going gangbusters
12/22 $15,502,000 After two days of $5 million +, donations dropped under $2 million
12/23 $16,424,000 Uh-oh, donations under $1 million
12/24 $16,635,000 down to only $200,000 donations
12/25 $16,987,000 Its Christmas $350,000 donations, rednecks bullying rednecks to donate
12/26 $17,364,000 Donations $400,000 trending up
12/27 $17,378,000 WAY DOWN only $14,000
12/28 $17,667,000 almost up $300,000
12/29 $17,963,000 up only $200,000
12/30 $18,166,000 another $200,000 day
12/31 No data from the Wayback Machine
1/1 Again no data (the wayback machine is slacking)
As of now January 2, 2019 $18,695,000 So about $500,000 in three days, so they are now averaging under $200,000 per day now.
So the suckers are giving less every day now that the RW “news” sites aren’t promoting as much. But lets say they make their goal of $1 Billion. At the current rate of $200,000 per day they will only need another 5000 or so days to reach their goal. GOOD LUCK. Thats only 13 ½ more years. And $5 Billion? At $200,000 per day fundraising it will only take 67 years, just a lifetime to raise the money for the wall. Luckily for them GoFundMe can have campaigns go on indefinitely. But will GoFundMe still be around in 67 years?