When Donald Trump visited flood-ravaged Louisiana last week, he promised a $100,000 donation to a Baton Rouge church—specifically, the Baton Rouge church of anti-LGBT hate group leader Tony Perkins. Because let's face it, Donald Trump isn't going to cut a check to anyone who can't do him a few favors in return, flood or no flood.
That check has yet to arrive, and it's unclear if Donald Trump himself will be donating even a dime.
Perkins said Tuesday that Trump's gift had not yet been paid.
"I've been told the church should [receive] it on Friday," he wrote in an email to The Post. Perkins said he was unsure whether Trump planned to make the donation out of his own pocket, or perhaps from the Donald J. Trump Foundation — a nonprofit group that is largely filled with other donors' money, not Trump's own.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump's presidential campaign, did not respond to questions about this promise.
The campaign is also clamming up about two other supposed charitable gestures from Trump’s trip. His Louisiana state director claimed that Trump had donated a truckload of relief supplies. As it turns out, nobody can verify that and the campaign isn't talking. And the Louisiana governor specifically asked Trump to give a donation to the Louisiana Flood Relief Fund before his visit; his campaign isn't saying whether he did that either.
This is really the easiest possible goodwill effort Donald Trump could possibly make. Flood victims need money. Donald Trump is known for one thing and one thing only: having plenty of it. One would presume a man who says he's worth $10 billion would be eager to show what a kind and decent soul he was during a run for the presidency that isn't going so well—even if he couldn't bring himself to donate to anybody other than a hate group leader.
And yet the campaign is keeping mum on it? Huh.
