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Michael Jordan gives back far more than he gets credit for.
After six NBA championships and a Hall of Fame career, Jordan is now known most for his Air Jordan brand, memes of him crying, and compilations of him expressing personal grievances that fueled his athletic prowess.
‘Did you get all the stuff?!’
What does not get as much media play is Jordan’s long history of charity toward low-income communities, disaster relief, and sick children.
In fact, even when Jordan was being mocked with the “it became personal” meme following the airing of his 2020 Netflix documentary, “The Last Dance,” he was giving millions to feed the hungry during the Christmas season.
In late November 2020, months after the documentary released, Jordan donated $2 million of profit from the movie to Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief program. He focused on the Carolinas, where he played college basketball, and Chicago, where he won his NBA championships.
This came at a time when the organization had announced that more than 50 million Americans were struggling with food bills due to COVID-19.
What may be even more notable, though, is Jordan’s history with the Make-A-Wish organization.
As the NBA reported in 2019, Jordan has been chief ambassador for Make-A-Wish since 2008, donating more than $5 million to the charity while granting hundreds of wishes over a 30-year span.
His donation totals catapulted in early 2023, when Jordan celebrated his 60th birthday by giving a whopping $10 million donation to Make-A-Wish, the biggest contribution the company had ever received.
But what is seemingly more impactful than his donations is Jordan’s willingness to reach out to young fans of his who are struggling, sick, or even similarly to him, a meme.
The latter is exactly what happened to Jeffrey from Spokane, Washington, in 2016. Jeffrey was spotted wearing Jordan’s Chicago Bulls gear at a local basketball park. Viewers were shocked at how similar he looked to the NBA legend, and the video quickly became a laughing stock online as it appeared an adult man was mimicking a professional athlete.
However, Jordan became aware of the nuanced details of the story, including that Jeffrey was developmentally disabled. He has a seizure disorder, mild retardation, and autism. His mother told reporters that Jeffrey was diagnosed at the age of 4 when he complained of painful headaches.
Just months after the meme took off, Jordan sent Jeffrey a massive haul of Air Jordan goods — and even gave him a phone call.
“Did you get all the stuff?!” Jordan is heard asking Jeffrey. After Jeffrey confirmed, Jordan followed up, “Is it enough?!”
The two laughed. “Enjoy yourself, and I’m going to be watching for you,” Jordan added.
“All right … I love you,” Jeffrey threw out to his hero.
“Love you, man,” Jordan replied.
The greatest basketball player of all time, who famously said, “Republicans buy sneakers too,” has made so many charitable donations that the NBA has an entire page dedicated to his philanthropy.
It notes $2 million of relief funds to victims of Hurricane Florence in 2018, $500,000 to stock libraries and preschools in Charlotte in 2016, and $250,000 to food banks in 2012, among many other donations.
In November 2025, Jordan continued his tradition of helping others during the holiday season, with a $10 million donation to a North Carolina medical center in honor of his mother.
The Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, will name its neuroscience institute after Deloris Jordan, according to ESPN.
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Glenn Beck reveals the one thing he should have NEVER said about Donald Trump
What many don’t know is that there are two sides to Donald Trump: the public persona known for scathing Truth Social posts and humiliating contentious reporters and the incredibly gracious family man behind the bombast.
Before Glenn Beck knew the difference, he believed Trump to be an insincere grifter, spurring him to make some public statements he deeply regrets today.
On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn shared a story about Donald Trump that nearly drove him to tears.
Before Trump announced his presidential run in 2015, he and Glenn were friendly after hitting it off at one of Larry King’s birthday parties. During one conversation, Trump urged Glenn, who traveled often for work, to stay at one of the Trump hotels.
Glenn agreed to try it out and booked a room at the Trump International Hotel in New City during a business trip. However, at the time, he was on a strict diet for health reasons that only allowed him to eat 70 specific foods. As a result, a personal chef had to accompany him everywhere he went.
“And so I called [Trump] up, and I said, ‘Hey, I’m coming to New York. I have a chef that has to travel with me because I can only eat these 70 things, and it has to be exact. … Could you accommodate?’ … And he’s like, ‘Absolutely, not a problem,”’ Glenn recounts.
However, during Glenn’s stay in NYC, he got a phone call informing him that his father was about to pass away, requiring him to cut his trip short.
“Somehow or another, [Trump] found out that I left. I go to Seattle; my father dies; I come back home, and he calls me up, and he said, ‘Is there a reason you left early from the hotel? Did something go wrong?’ And I said, ‘Yes, sir. My father passed away.’ And he said, ‘Oh my gosh, Glenn, I’m so sorry to hear that,”’ Glenn says, calling Trump “so relatable and so kind.”
However, Glenn’s kindly opinion of the future president immediately soured when Trump announced just a week after their phone conversation that he was running for president.
“I can’t believe I’m confessing this. This is so horrible for me to say. This is one of the worst things I’ve done in a long time,” he says, fighting back tears.
“I remember getting on the air as soon as he announces [his candidacy] … and I said, ‘That son of b***h has been courting me this whole time. He has been setting me up for an endorsement. That’s what this whole thing has been about.’ And I assume the worst of him,” Glenn confesses.
Today Glenn knows the real Donald Trump — the one whose children and grandchildren worship the ground he walks on. He knows that the attentiveness and kindness Trump showed him after his father passed away wasn’t performance or grift. It was genuine.
“He was just such a gracious guy, and I spat in his face for it, and I regret it. Anything that you think he is, anything the press says he is, he’s not that guy,” says Glenn.
To hear Glenn retell the story in detail, watch the video above.
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