If Donald Trump is a billionaire, why isn’t even donating cash to assist these affected by Hurricane Helene? That’s what inaugural UFC gentle heavyweight champion Frank Shamrock want to know.
Greater than 200 folks have misplaced their lives for the reason that supercharged storm made landfall earlier this month. Practically half of these deaths have been in North Carolina, the place a number of toes of fast-moving water destroyed whole communities. Since then, 3,300 lively Nationwide Guard members have been dispatched to the state to assist with reduction efforts, and state lawmakers have launched a invoice that may embody $200 million in help for communities hit hardest by the storm.
A slew of celebrities have additionally finished their half to assist. Dolly Parton and Michael Jordan each donated $1 million to the trigger whereas David Tepper, proprietor of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, and his spouse Nicole have additionally dedicated $3 million to reduction efforts by their basis.
Nonetheless, one man who has not supplied up a dime’s price of assist regardless of having a reported internet price of $4.2 billion is former U.S. president Donald Trump.
Responding to a publish that tried to throw shade at stars Taylor Swift and Girl Gaga for his or her lack of donations compared to a few of Trump’s most staunch supporters, Shamrock was fast to ask why Trump himself has not donated something to the reduction efforts.
“Umm, Trump claims to be a billionaire,” Shamrock wrote on X. “Why doesn’t he assist? Oh that’s proper he’s too busy drifting his followers and scamming those that imagine in him…..”
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Apparently, Trump’s daughter Ivanka traveled to North Carolina on Wednesday to ship 300 Starlink gadgets that may assist flood victims hook up with high-speed web.
To be honest, Donald Trump did launch a certified GoFundMe marketing campaign for victims of Hurricane Helene that has already surpassed $7.6 million as of this writing. In fact, that’s made up of donations by anybody keen to go online and donate just a few of their hard-earned {dollars} to a great trigger.
To this point, Trump has not been a kind of folks.
