Timothy Mellon, a billionaire trust fund baby whose great-grandfather built the family wealth, is the biggest pro-Trump political donor in recent memory. He has already poured in $15 million to Trump's 2024 reelection campaign, $20 million to RFK Jr's election campaign (under the theory that RFK Jr's candidacy will hurt Biden), and $50 million to help Trump "build the wall" (over 90% of the total donations to that effort). In 2022, a non-presidential year, he contributed $42 million to Republican election causes. In total, he's donated over $150 million to pro-Trump causes since 2020.
What does the person who wants Trump and Republicans to control the nation think of Black folk? He told us in his own self-published 2015 memoir:
“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the ‘Establishment’ to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations,” he wrote.
“For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on,” Mellon wrote. “The largess is funded by the hardworking folks, fewer and fewer in number, who are too honest or too proud to allow themselves to sink into this morass.”
What does the person who wants Trump and Republicans to control the nation think of Black folk? He told us in his own self-published 2015 memoir:
“Black people, in spite of heroic efforts by the ‘Establishment’ to right the wrongs of the past, became even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations,” he wrote.
“For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on,” Mellon wrote. “The largess is funded by the hardworking folks, fewer and fewer in number, who are too honest or too proud to allow themselves to sink into this morass.”
