--- title: Donald Trump's Art of the Deal Co-Author Donates to Charity description: His proceeds from the past six months have been donated to the National Immigration Law Center canonical: https://time.com/4518668/donald-trump-art-of-the-deal-tony-schwartz-charity/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-04T20:54:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:32.163Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump's 'Art of the Deal' Co-Author Donated Royalty Checks to Charity og:description: His proceeds from the past six months were donated to the National Immigration Law Center og:url: https://time.com/4518668/donald-trump-art-of-the-deal-tony-schwartz-charity/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf708e3e35949d9fb/6988a8b297cdff24d16ae093/donald-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP-RALLY og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump's 'Art of the Deal' Co-Author Donated Royalty Checks to Charity twitter:description: His proceeds from the past six months were donated to the National Immigration Law Center twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf708e3e35949d9fb/6988a8b297cdff24d16ae093/donald-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump's _Art of the Deal_ Co-Author Donated $55,000 in Royalty Checks to Charity > Sponsored content. 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Specifically, Tony Schwartz sent the money to the National Immigration Law Center, which assists low-income and undocumented immigrants and will share the funds with several other civil rights groups. Schwartz told the Washington _Post_ he’s seen the value of royalty checks for the 1987 book grow over the course of the presidential campaign, and that they “suddenly became, for me, blood money.” He donated his last check, $25,000 for the second half of 2015, to several immigrant rights groups as well as Human Rights Watch and the Center for Victims of Torture. “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is,” Schwartz told the [_New Yorker_](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all) in a July article. “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.” \[[_The Washington Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/04/trumps-co-author-on-the-art-of-the-deal-donates-55000-royalty-check-to-charity/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4518668/donald-trump-art-of-the-deal-tony-schwartz-charity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4518668/donald-trump-art-of-the-deal-tony-schwartz-charity/"},"headline":"Donald Trump's Art of the Deal Co-Author Donated $55,000 in Royalty Checks to Charity","datePublished":"2016-10-04T20:54:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:32.163Z","description":"His proceeds from the past six months have been donated to the National Immigration Law Center","url":"https://time.com/4518668/donald-trump-art-of-the-deal-tony-schwartz-charity/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf708e3e35949d9fb/6988a8b297cdff24d16ae093/donald-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf708e3e35949d9fb/6988a8b297cdff24d16ae093/donald-trump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP-RALLY","caption":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP-RALLY","creditText":"JASON CONNOLLY—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4518668/donald-trump-art-of-the-deal-tony-schwartz-charity/","name":"Donald Trump's Art of the Deal Co-Author Donated $55,000 in Royalty Checks to Charity"}}]}] ```