Trump Said He Gave $1 Million To Charity From His Board Game. There’s No Sign He Ever Did.
“Trump: the Game” adds to a string of claimed donations that can’t be substantiated.
Christina Wilkie 06/10/2016 08:50 pm ET
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WASHINGTON — “I am acting as an agent of charities,” Donald Trump boasted to a gaggle of reporters watching him unveil his newest venture, a board game, in February 1989. “From the Trump perspective, all the profits we make will go towards charities,” Trump said, rolling gold-plated dice across the pink marble atrium floor of Trump Tower.
“Trump: The Game” allows players to compete in a Monopoly-style quest to accumulate wealth and property. At the time, Trump was at the pinnacle of his career, with a half-dozen high-rise developments in Manhattan that bore his name, and a mini-empire of casinos in Atlantic City.
Standing in front of a huge replica of his board game, and flanked by executives from game publisher Milton Bradley, Trump raised the stakes.
According to Trump biographer Gwenda Blair:
The Milton Bradley executives were shocked. During more than a year of planning, Trump had never mentioned giving the proceeds from “Trump: The Game” to charity, Blair wrote in The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate. “I hope the game makes many millions of dollars,” Trump told reporters, adding that the real beneficiaries would be groups that funded research into AIDS, cerebral palsy care, and multiple sclerosis.
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