President Trump attended Saturday night’s fundraising ball for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which was held at Mar-a-Lago — his Florida home and so-called winter White House.
While the Harvard-affiliated Boston hospital has held the posh annual event at the private club since 2011, and in 2008, this year’s gala drew criticism from Dana-Farber’s staff and Harvard medical students, who saw Trump’s actions, especially his executive order on immigration, as in direct conflict with the hospital’s mission. Dana-Farber declined to cancel, saying it was too late to change plans, but said it would avoid “controversial venues” in the future.
My wife is living with Stage IV cancer and my heart is broken. She is receiving her treatment at Dana-Farber which is one of the finest cancer research facilities in the world. I did not vote for President Trump but I know the people who attend these types of events raise enormous amounts of money to help people like my wife, who did nothing to deserve cancer and everything to avoid it. If your family is effected by this devastating illness you may suddenly find yourself being less judgemental about who is trying to help raise money. Thank you to everyone involved in this event, including President Trump.
Unfortunately, sometimes it takes someone I your situation to understand this rather difficult issue.
Many protesters don’t have a clue!
President Trump shows up and was apparently a gracious host. Whoddathunk?
What was Trump’s donation, or was it from his so-called charity? Or did he just party crash for the free food (he should go to an obesity fundraiser, BLOATUS could be the poster boy.
How can anyone dare say terrible things about a president who takes no pay,no lobbyists,and opens his Golf Club to help people with cancer? You journalists are rotten to the core.
President Trump doesn’t need the money,he can walk. If I were him,I would. He is doing this because this country is in trouble,as you just proved in your hateful article,and you are a huge part of the problem.lying media, is anything more discraseful?
The president raised 2.2 million for suffering people with cancer and you comment on the food?
I promise to go to every social media I find and tell truth about the trash you report.
I wish Hillary on you. A common criminal. But you love her because she paid your bribes.
Sharon Wright
Was that satire?
President Trump did NOT raise the money. The donors who support Dana Farber raised the money.
Does Mar a Lago send a bill for Trump particpation to the WH? And of course,that is tax payer money going into Trumps pocket…
There is a cancer on the cancer center’s cancer fundraiser.
I just wonder how much Dana-Faber paid to have President Trump attending and what they want from him especially since the ACA is going to be repealed and Dana-Faber owns several Hospitals. It is sad exposure to the President of the United States is these days pay for play.
Even a cancer fundraiser is controversial…..
5 middle school age kids were caught throwing a wooden block at Trumps motor cabe…..keep up the hate.
From now on most events held at Mar-a-Lago will be controversial. This venue was booked before Trump got elected so Dana Farber will be cut some slack here but a few DFCI physicians withdrew from the event and that’s well within their prerogative.
And it’s ‘motorcade’ not motor cabe.
Get real, will you? A bunch of 12 year olds throwing a piece of wood is more ‘dare worthy’ than hateful.
This event was booked before Trump was elected, but Trump was a racist, xenophobic, anti-gay, misogynist, science-denying pig long before he was elected. (For a lot of people, that’s exactly why they voted for him.) Apparently he’s always been that way. Everyone, including Dana-Farber, knew it then, and knows it now. Make your own judgments about organizations that would associate their names and reputations with the likes of Trump.
This event was booked before he was elected, but Trump was a racist, gay-hating, xenophobic, misogynist, science-denying pig long before the election. Dana-Farber chose anyway to attach its reputation to such a man, giving him their famous name to boast of. Going forward, as far as I’m concerned, any business that has even a fine dotted line connecting it to Trump is radioactive and I will stay away. Besides our votes, resistance is all we’ve got. I intend to resist.