Melania Trump's donation to aid foster children was rejected due to her last name

Melania Trump told Fox News that she has faced discrimination from academic institutions refusing her charitable donations to foster care scholarships because she is married to former President Donald Trump.

Last week, Melania Trump told Fox News that a university flatly rejected her charitable donation to a program that offers scholarships to foster children. She said that “cancel culture” as a trend is “still going on.”

“Because of the board directors, they called back, they found out that it was me [donating the money]. They didn’t…they said, ‘We cannot go on.’ It was very very sad. Because, who suffered? They were children from foster communities. They didn’t have a scholarship that somebody would provide for them. They [the university] didn’t want to do business with me because of political affiliation, my political beliefs. And, that…was one of the ‘canceling’ projects,” she said.

As Townhall pointed out, this prejudice extended to the mainstream media where Vogue has consistently snubbed Melania, a successful model, from a cover shoot while promoting Jill Biden and Michelle Obama instead. This trend has been seen before, impacting Melania for her association with her husband.

On Feb. 18, 2022, the New York Times reported on an Oklahoma school that also rejected Melania Trump’s financial gift, “a computer science school founded in Silicon Valley with a campus in Oklahoma.” That campus turned out to be Holberton School, a San Francisco-based education company that trains people in computer science.

Julien Barbier, the chief executive of Holberton, confirmed at the time that Melania Trump had attempted to donate to the Tulsa campus. “We were approached about a scholarship by her team but never reached an agreement on the logistics of the scholarship,” he said, noting that he had nothing further to add to that statement.