{"id":14588,"date":"2025-10-26T11:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14588"},"modified":"2025-10-26T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T11:32:58","slug":"donor-who-gave-130-million-to-pay-troops-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14588","title":{"rendered":"Donor who gave $130 million to pay troops is &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Timothy Mellon a &#8220;reclusive&#8221; billionaire and Trump supporter. Virtually impossible to find a current or recent photo of him. That&#8217;s him in the blue shirt receiving a photograph in 2015 of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USCGC_Mellon\">USCGC Mellon<\/a><\/em>, a ship named after his grandfather, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Mellon\">Andrew<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Timothy_Mellon_in_March_2015.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14589\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/25\/us-news\/deep-pocketed-donor-who-gave-130-million-to-pay-soldiers-is-identified-to-be-billionaire-heir-timothy-mellon\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/25\/us-news\/deep-pocketed-donor-who-gave-130-million-to-pay-soldiers-is-identified-to-be-billionaire-heir-timothy-mellon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/11\/us-news\/president-trump-will-make-sure-military-troops-are-paid-if-government-shutdown-lasts-through-missed-check\/\">President Trump<\/a>\u00a0announced this week that \u201ca friend\u201d who \u201cloves the military and loves the country\u201d \u2013 but who didn\u2019t want to be identified \u2013\u00a0had given\u00a0the\u00a0funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump referenced the contribution en route to Asia Friday night, calling the request for anonymity \u201cpretty unusual in the world I come from,\u201d calling the donor a \u201cgreat gentleman\u201d and a \u201cgreat patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>********************<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mellon, 83, is the grandson of industrialist\u00a0and philanthropist\u00a0Andrew Mellon.\u00a0The family\u00a0is believed to be worth $14 billion,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/mellon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp;day after Trump\u2019s 2024&nbsp;conviction for fraud in New York,&nbsp;Mellon&nbsp;donated a stunning $50 million&nbsp;to&nbsp;the pro-Trump super PAC Make America&nbsp;Great Again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He lives in Wyoming, where he has kept a low profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Mellon, who served as the nation\u2019s Treasury Secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/about\/history\/prior-secretaries\/andrew-w-mellon-1921-1932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from 1921 to 1932<\/a>,\u00a0amassed a fortune in the years leading up to the Great Depression, and ultimately made significant philanthropic contributions to the National Gallery of Art and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pentagon accepted his grandson\u2019s donation, but might not be able to use the funds: the Antideficiency Act bars agencies from spending money that has not been appropriated by Congress during a shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Mellon a &#8220;reclusive&#8221; billionaire and Trump supporter. Virtually impossible to find a current or recent photo of him. That&#8217;s him in the blue shirt receiving a photograph in 2015 of USCGC Mellon, a ship named after his grandfather, Andrew. https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/25\/us-news\/deep-pocketed-donor-who-gave-130-million-to-pay-soldiers-is-identified-to-be-billionaire-heir-timothy-mellon President Trump\u00a0announced this week that \u201ca friend\u201d who \u201cloves the military and loves the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14590,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions\/14590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}