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As I\u2019ve mentioned before, a long-ago high school classmate of mine invited me to join a hard-left Facebook page with over 68,000 followers. Naturally, I said yes. Seeing the Facebook group close has been both useful and disheartening. I get to see leftists up close and get regular proof of how utterly ill-informed and hate-driven their positions are\u2014and how misleading. However, what depresses me is knowing that, despite all this, the DSA is winning elections in blue enclaves across America.<\/p>

Read more California Gov. Gavin Newsom trying to make it a crime to foster election integrity<\/a><\/p>\n

A particularly good example of the type of thing that goes viral on sites such as this one is a poster celebrating Taylor Swift\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0and Travis Kelce\u2019s purported generosity, while simultaneously attacking Donald Trump for destroying a program that sends\u00a0books to poor children across America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This poster originated on\u00a0the Really American\u00a0Facebook page, where it garnered hundreds of thousands of likes\u00a0and thousands of comments and reposts. Before I get to the original Facebook post, I want you to look only at the image, which is what most people do when they instantly like and re-share something.<\/p>\n

The poster lovingly celebrates Taylor Swift\u2019s and Travis Kelce\u2019s truly extraordinary generosity to celebrate their wedding, and contrasts that with Donald Trump\u2019s evil, Scrooge-like stinginess:<\/p>\n

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If you didn\u2019t love them before, you will now. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce just donated $26 million to food banks, children\u2019s hospitals, and literacy programs days before their wedding. That includes $2 million to save Dolly Parton\u2019s free book program after Trump\u2019s cuts froze enrollment and shut kids out. While Trump cuts, they give. Thank you, Taylor and Travis, for putting children first.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

O.M.G! Aren\u2019t those two beautiful people just, like, totally awesome? And isn\u2019t Donald Trump the meanest, greediest person in the world, keeping all that money for himself?<\/p>\n

Except, of course, the poster is wrong, both factually and in what it implies. All of it. Every bit of it.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with how \u201cgenerous\u201d Swift and Kelce are. Taylor Swift is worth an estimated $2.1 billion…and that\u2019s lowballing it. Last year, Kelce was worth an estimated $70 million…although that doesn’t include his earnings this year. In other words, the two of them have a combined net worth of at least $2.17 billion. Again, that\u2019s the low-ball number.<\/p>\n

With that information in hand, let\u2019s look at just how generous Swift and Kelce really were with that dazzling, \u201cO.M.G., don\u2019t you just love them\u201d charitable donation. What they really did was donate at most 1.2% of their combined fortune. In other words, what they did was akin to an average person sending a check for a few hundred dollars to the Salvation Army at Christmas. They\u2019re not generous; they\u2019re cheap, shallow, flashy people. Blech.<\/p>\n

Now to specifics. What about Dolly Parton\u2019s program \u201cafter Trump\u2019s cuts froze enrollment and shut kids out\u201d? That\u2019s wrong, totally wrong.\u00a0<\/p>

Read more Maybe they like Laura Ingalls and a young George better<\/a><\/p>\n

What really happens is that, across America, local affiliates, some public, some private, have programs that enroll children in the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program. Once enrolled, children ages 0 to 5 receive a free book per month.<\/p>\n

Trump did nothing to affect the Dolly Parton program. It functions at the local level. For example, in 2023, Missouri took over enrolling children in Dolly\u2019s Program.\u00a0However, Missouri had to cut its program budget for fiscal year 2027. That meant freezing enrollment in the Dolly Parton program as of July 1 because there was no money for the enrollment process. It did not stop books from going to children already enrolled in the program.<\/p>\n

Missouri\u2019<\/span>s\u00a0decision also did nothing to prevent private citizens\u2014like Swift and Kelce\u2014from filling the budget gap. But that\u2019s not what those two actually\u00a0did. Instead, they just gave money straight to the Imagination Library to buy more books. which is a fine thing to do. As best as I can tell, the Missouri kids, who needed only\u00a0$4 million to close the gap in FY2027 (0.09% of the duo\u2019s fortune), are still out in the cold.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the most important thing: The people behind the poster know these facts. In the Facebook post accompanying the poster, they admit that the cuts were limited to Missouri and they (accurately) make no mention of Donald Trump:<\/p>\n