--- title: Chrissy Teigen Gives ACLU Donation for Trump Birthday description: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend gave Donald Trump a surprising gift on his 72nd birthday — a donation to the ACLU. canonical: https://time.com/5312445/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-donate-to-aclu-for-donald-trump-birthday/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-14T18:56:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:24.940Z og:title: Here's the Birthday Gift Chrissy Teigen Gave Donald Trump og:description: A large donation with a message og:url: https://time.com/5312445/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-donate-to-aclu-for-donald-trump-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9eb89678bb9cb73a/69893321ab6d7750646b2f5a/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-donate-to-aclu-for-donald-trump-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Fourth Annual Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation Blue Diamond Gala og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's the Birthday Gift Chrissy Teigen Gave Donald Trump twitter:description: A large donation with a message twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9eb89678bb9cb73a/69893321ab6d7750646b2f5a/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-donate-to-aclu-for-donald-trump-birthday.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Chrissy Teigen and John Legend Have a Message and a Donation for Trump's Birthday > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 14, 2018 6:56 PM UTC  LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 11: John Legend and Chrissy Teigen attends the Fourth Annual Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation Blue Diamond Gala at Dodger Stadium on June 11, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation ) LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 11: John Legend and Chrissy Teigen attends the Fourth Annual Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation Blue Diamond Gala at Dodger Stadium on June 11, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation ) Emma McIntyre—Getty Images for Los Angeles Dod  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jun 14, 2018 6:56 PM UTC [Chrissy Teigen](http://time.com/5233865/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-relationship-timeline/) and President Donald Trump have had [a long and complicated relationship on social media](http://time.com/4661009/chrissy-teigen-donald-trump-tweet/) (at least, [until the President blocked her on Twitter last summer](http://time.com/4872442/chrissy-teigen-donald-trump-blocked-twitter/)) but that’s not stopping Teigen from commemorating his birthday with a gift that won’t soon be forgotten. Teigen took to Instagram on Thursday to share how she and husband John Legend, as well as their two children, Luna Simone and Miles Theodore, would be making “Trump’s birthday great again.” In a note post, Teigen detailed that she and Legend find the policies of the Trump Administration as[ it affects immigrant families in the U.S.](http://time.com/longform/donald-trump-immigration-policy-splitting-families/), to be “cruel, anti-family and go against everything we believe this country should represent.” She then announced that each member of their family would be donating $72,000 because of Trump’s 72nd birthday, encouraging her followers to make donations of their own, of any amount to the ACLU — now that’s a birthday gift that won’t soon be forgotten. 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