Over the weekend, the Washington Post combed through the Donald J. Trump Foundation’s tax filings from 2009 to 2014, and found that in the past five years, Trump hasn’t actually contributed any money to it. Trump claims $102 million in donations during that time, but it turns out those donations weren’t in cash, they were mostly free rounds of golf and coupons to his hotels and golf courses.
There’s a lot to it, but if you’re reading this on a wrestling blog, here’s the hook: The biggest donors to the Trump Foundation during that time were actually Vince and Linda McMahon.
The WWE owners and Donald Trump have a longstanding friendship and partnership and made the biggest donation during that time period — $5 million — following Trump’s WrestleMania appearance in 2007. That was the Battle of the Billionaires, with Bobby Lashley representing Trump and Umaga representing McMahon. That ended with McMahon getting his head shaved. If you add the $5 million donation to the “handsome sum” Trump was also paid, that means Vince McMahon paid $5 million-plus for a public haircut.
How many golf coupons do you think Bobby Lashley got for helping out?
If you’re having trouble picturing McMahon’s donation, we imagine it was a lot like this:
