Little Acts of Kindness

Stuff Trump Has Done You Will Never Hear About on Mainstream Media

Some people hate Trump and these people have no idea that Trump over his life has done some very kind things. He often gets no credit for them or the media finds a way to backhand Trump and paint a good deed as an act of self-serving thievery.

It took a lot of internet scouring to find these items—but they’re true. In some cases, even Snopes and other lefty fact-checkers had to grudgingly admit that these are not hoaxes or scams or fake news. The fact is that Trump might actually be a nice guy. Here are some stories that will make left-leaning people foam at the mouth.

Saving the Family Farm

In 1985, the Hill family in Waynesboro, Georgia, was fighting an uphill battle to keep the family farm. The Hills, a middle-aged couple, had racked up $300,000 in debt and saw no way out. Then the head of the family, Mr. Hill, thought he might have a way to save the family’s land. In a desperate bid to save the family’s home and acreage, he took out a life insurance policy and then ended his own life—not realizing that the insurance would not pay on a suicide. This left his sixty-something-year-old wife Annabel Hill a widow with a massive debt. Stalling the creditors as best she could over the next months, she raised some of the money, but in 1986, she still owed $187,000 with no way to get more money. A businessman in Atlanta named Frank Argenbright, Jr., hosted a press conference to get some media attention in an effort to save the Hill’s farm. Trump, as most of us know, watches TV and caught the conference. He contacted Argenbright with the goal of raising the missing $187,000. Together, they got lots of small donations. Shock jock Don Imus even contributed $15,000. But after their best efforts, Annabel Hill still owed $78,000. Trump and a Texas farmer named Tom McKamy agreed to split the difference and pay off her mortgage. Trump was criticized because right before Christmas 1986, once the Hill family farm was secure, he invited the whole Hill family to the Trump Tower for a party where they held a sort of mock “mortgage burning” ceremony. The party celebrated both the Christmas festivities and the happy news that the Hills could keep their family farm. Trump was criticized for trying to “get publicity” and making a big show of his generosity. It just goes to show, even when you help out a widow and host her family at a party, you’ll still get criticized if you’re Trump. Honestly, can’t a guy who contributed thousands to a fundraising drive have a party?

Jennifer Hudson

Back in 2008, pop star Jennifer Hudson suffered a terrible tragedy. Hudson had a strong singing career going at this time and she was spending most of her time in Los Angeles and New York, but she was always a Chicago girl at heart. That’s where her family came from. In 2008, she went back to Chicago to see her mother and other family members, only to find that her mother and brother had been murdered. The family home was now a crime scene. Her nephew was missing—he was just seven years old. He was found dead in a parking lot a couple of days later. The guy charged with the horrific crimes was William Balfour, Jennifer Hudson’s brother-in-law. He was already on parole at the time when he went into a jealous rage and killed all of the Hudson family members he could find. (He has since confessed and is serving life.) Donald Trump offered lodging for Jennifer Hudson and her surviving family members at the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago—all expenses paid. They stayed for a while as things got sorted out. It’s kind of difficult when your home becomes a crime scene.

Pardon Czar

Trump pardoned Alice Johnson back in 2018 after she served 21 years in prison on grossly exaggerated charges and, in February 2025, he made her “pardon czar.” Alice Johnson, who hails from a poor sharecropper’s family in Mississippi was arrested as part of a money-laundering and multi-million-dollar cocaine empire. She was sentenced to life plus 25 years with no possibility of parole. Johnson admits she was involved as an “intermediary” in that organization—she was a single mom with five children who had lost her job at FedEx—but even court evidence said she had not made drug deals and she never sold any drugs. To say she was a peripheral player in this cocaine-dealing organization is an exaggeration, but she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The cocaine crew consisted of about a dozen individuals, led by a Columbian crew out of Texas. Alice Johnson was swept up when the Columbians got arrested. The American Civil Liberties Union (a lefty organization) petitioned for clemency for her. A life sentence for being slightly involved with some bad guys seemed extreme. Nothing happened. Alice Johnson then petitioned Obama during his administration and wrote to CNN to get national attention. Not that it matters, but Alice Johnson is a Black woman and she might have hoped Obama had a little “hope and change” left in him. But just as Obama was leaving office in 2018, her request was denied. In May 2018, Kim Kardashian spoke to Trump about Johnson’s case and Trump commuted her sentence on June 6, 2018. He also invited her to his 2019 State of the Union. On August 28, 2020, Trump gave her a full pardon. While incarcerated, Johnson became an ordained minister. Today, she works as Trump’s “pardon czar” to help review cases where the punishment is out of proportion to the crime. To be sure, Alice Johnson was involved on the fringes of a drug gang but life plus 25 years and no parole seemed harsh, particularly considering many people commit violent crimes and get released without spending a day behind bars.

Remember this next time you hear that Trump is a racist, but Obama is the guy who championed the Black people.

Pro-Life

Trump is the first U.S. President to speak at the March for Life, a pro-life organization. Abortion is a very divisive issue whenever there is a Democrat in the room, but Trump is willing to stand up for the right to life, even if it cost him political points. (Trump’s stand on abortion, like the attitude of many people, is somewhat ambiguous, but since the Dobbs decision, abortion is a state matter, not a federal matter, and Trump seems very comfortable with that.)

Ahead of Time, Under Budget

The Wollman Rink is a public ice-skating rink in New York’s Central Park you probably have seen in the movies. It was opened in 1950. It was closed in 1980 when the concrete under the rink was damaged. The rink got so bad that it had to be completely shut down for public safety. The city said it would take two years and almost $5M to fix it. New York began the work, or so they say, but six years later in 1986, the rink was still nowhere close to completion and $13M had been spent. New York was asking the taxpayers to fork over another $3M to get it done by 1987. Enter Donald Trump. He said he would pay for the renovations himself and get it done in a year. Of course, being the deal-maker, he wanted leases to operate the rink and rink concessions to recoup his costs, promising to give profits to charity once the costs were recovered. The media did its usual hit job on Trump, who lived up to his end of the bargain. The media said the rink was practically finished when Trump took over —even Wikipedia says that was fake news and the rink was in severe disrepair when Trump began his work. Six years of New York city attention did virtually nothing to make the rink useable. The media further said that New Yorkers footed the bill and Trump never paid a nickel—again debunked. Trump paid. The rink was in complete shambles when Trump took over in 1986, he paid the repairs out of his own pocket, and the repairs were done in four rather than six months. And, yes, he took the lease for the rink and concessions. And the rink made money—Trump recouped his costs and then donated profits to various charities: United Cerebral Palsy, Partnership for the Homeless, and the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. He eventually got out of the lease but he made no money on the rink (although he did recover the costs of the repair). It’s amazing he could do all of this and the press wanted to say he did not real work and cheated the city out of money. You would think once in a while New Yorkers might say, “Thank you.”

No Pay

Trump takes no salary as President. That is, due to our tax law, he takes his salary but donates 100% to charity. Only one other President in history has done this, John F. Kennedy, Jr. Trump’s salary is around $400,000 a year of $1.2M for the four-year term. Trump has every right to this money. Obama took his salary, so did Biden although he spent over 40% of his term on vacation at taxpayer expense. Clinton took the paycheck. Everybody took the paycheck but Trump and Kennedy. Kennedy likely refused to take the money because he was a bit of a trust-fund baby, born into a very wealthy family. It just did not look good in the 1960s for the Kennedys to be on the government payroll.

It is not known why Trump refuses to take the pay. He is not doing it for the attention, since the media gives him absolutely zero credit for this act. I suspect it is because he does not need the money and wants to serve his country rather than bleed it dry the way Biden tried to do.

Loves Animals

In 2019, Trump made cruelty to animals a federal offense. This makes it easier to go after those who torture or harm animals and inflict harsher penalties. But there isn’t a lot of political capital to be gained by this kind of legislation, which is probably why other politicians don’t think about it. After all, dogs don’t vote. But Trump did what he thought was right. And most people never heard of it.

You would think PETA would like this sort of thing. They don’t, they hate Trump.

Bus Driver Hero

Trump once learned about a bus driver Darnell Barton who came to the aid of a young woman who was threatening to jump off a bridge. Barton stopped the bus and was able to talk her down and get her to safety. When Trump heard about the story, he gave Barton $10,000 as a reward. Never heard of that? It’s true, but it’s one of those stories the media keeps super quiet.

Send Back the Marine

A Marine sergeant named Andrew Tahmooressi got arrested and detained in Mexico. He was in possession of some firearms in his car that he owned legally in the United States, but he crossed over into Mexico with the guns in his possession. The Mexicans arrested and convicted him. He served seven months in a brutal prison where he claims he had been beaten. In 2014, Tahmooressi was released and returned to the United States. Trump was not president nor had any political influence to help get Tahmooressi to freedom, but he did have money. He sent Tahmooressi a check for $25,000 to help rebuild his life, thanking him for his military service.

There are unattributed anonymous sources out there that claim Trump disparages the military (not mentioning any names, but the magazine that prints this unattributed hearsay slander rhymes with The Atlantic.) But why would a guy who had a low opinion of the military want to help a Marine restart his life and give him a second chance? We all thank military people for their service, but how many put a check in their hand?

Life Flight

In 1988, a Jewish rabbi named Harold Ten had a critically ill young three-year-old son named Andrew. Andrew suffered from a severe respiratory problem and needed to get to life-saving treatment in California but since the boy was critically ill, no commercial airline would take him to get the care he needed. Trump jumped in and offered the family his private jet. The boy was brought to Los Angeles for treatment, which saved his young life (Andrew died in 1998).

The media admits this story is true but claims that Trump “milked it” to gain publicity for himself and to brag. In other words, this wasn’t a good deed, it was a bad evil deed. They say Trump used it just for the sake of getting attention. That’s funny—I never heard this story before. Maybe you haven’t, either

Trump Haters

Lot of people hate Trump, but there are stories of his doing good deeds that go back long before he was President. By contrast, I’ve not seen any similar stories of good deeds done on the sly by Barack Obama or acts of kindness perpetrated by the Clinton administrations. Yet nearly every one of these stories are things that the mainstream media has tried (and failed) to debunk or shoot holes through. Even when they couldn’t do that, they somehow turned the good deed into an indictment of Trump’s character. He saves the life of a little Jewish boy by lending his private jet (that’s not cheap, by the way), and he’s accused of grandstanding. He gives money to a good Samaritan bus driver and it’s called a lie. He rebuilds an iconic ice-skating rink in Central Park, New York, and he’s called a scammer and a liar.

You could argue Biden forgave student loans which was a relief to many borrowers—but that was (a) illegal and (b) did not use even a penny of his own money. Makes you wonder … I’d do a matching list of good deeds done by Joe Biden on his own dime, but I can’t find one. Not even one.