Valuetainment - “Political Activism” - Bezos' Ex-Wife Has Given $26.3 Billion to Charity

00:00:00.000 This Mackenzie Scott, $26 billion, she's given to charity after a divorce. 0.99

00:00:07.040 She left Bezos. 0.99

00:00:08.640 They got a divorce.

00:00:09.300 I think she ended up marrying a schoolteacher.

00:00:10.960 I don't know if that even worked out.

00:00:12.500 I don't think they're together anymore.

00:00:14.060 But she ended up giving $26 billion.

00:00:16.840 I don't know if you guys have seen this or not, if you want to pull up the list for me to read this to you.

00:00:21.000 $26 billion of money that was given to charity.

00:00:25.880 And Elon Musk responded to this.

00:00:27.300 He had a problem with this.

00:00:28.080 Elon Musk said on McKinsey giving away the $26 billion of her fortune.

00:00:30.980 Sadly, it makes the world a worse place.

00:00:34.560 Why?

00:00:35.220 Because of where the money went to.

00:00:37.000 So now, do you have that list?

00:00:39.140 There's a tweet that breaks down exactly where the money went to.

00:00:43.300 Maybe it's in here.

00:00:44.120 If it's not, you may want to look for that.

00:00:46.500 So McKinsey, after all that she's given away, more than $26 billion the past few years,

00:00:49.920 of thousands of organizations through her foundation, Yield Giving,

00:00:52.580 while many of her recipients had never received a donation of that side,

00:00:56.520 and many have called them life-changing gifts.

00:00:58.340 Not everyone sees her work in the same way.

00:01:00.040 Elon Musk, who recently became the world's first trillionaire,

00:01:03.080 thinks Scott's Giving is actually making the world worse off.

00:01:07.580 On June 27, puberty, a major viral media and social news brand posted on X

00:01:13.880 that Scott's Giving $26.3 billion in donations has made her one

00:01:17.780 of the biggest individual donors in history, the ex-wife of Amazon, Jeff Bezos,

00:01:22.020 mega-donor, then an account with 22,500 followers

00:01:24.900 with the name of Friendly Officer, this is Yahoo Finance,

00:01:28.840 whose bio describes as heterosexual alpha male replied to Puberty Post about Scott saying,

00:01:34.520 unfortunately, she's spending it making the world a worse place.

00:01:37.100 Then Musk responded, agreeing with the statement, sadly.

00:01:40.220 Yes, Musk is fresh off losing his history, making trillionaire status,

00:01:43.280 and is still comfortably the world's most richest man in the world.

00:01:46.580 Yet he's been outspoken about how supposedly hard philanthropic giving is

00:01:52.220 after securing his trillion-dollar pay package from Tesla in late 2025.

00:01:55.660 He said, philanthropy is difficult.

00:01:57.780 I agree with love of humanity,

00:02:00.460 and I think we should try to do things that help our fellow human beings.

00:02:05.040 He told in an interview, he says, but it's very hard.

00:02:08.380 He explained that he thinks it's simply challenging to give away money well.

00:02:11.760 The biggest challenge I find with my foundation

00:02:14.760 is trying to give away money in a way that is truly beneficial to people.

00:02:18.760 It's very easy to give money away to get appearance of goodness,

00:02:22.220 It is very difficult to give money away for the reality of goodness.

00:02:26.460 Very difficult.

00:02:27.300 Very good breakdown.

00:02:28.120 Tom, your thoughts on the story?

00:02:29.320 Well, I completely agree with that.

00:02:31.820 You know my giving.

00:02:32.880 I find it very, very difficult to ensure that the dollars go where they say.

00:02:40.300 I mean, right now there are, and I can show you the watch lists,

00:02:45.280 there are things out there where they're cautioning people about organizations

00:02:49.880 organizations that really aren't helping, uh, Venezuela. Uh, and, um, I'm going back and forth

00:02:56.540 on my neck, um, or guy said, I'm trying to help my grandmother. Do you know any of the relief

00:03:01.620 agencies? Do you guys trust any of them? My family is, can't get to her. We can't fly to her and we

00:03:09.580 want to somehow get relief to her, but we've done research and we can't find the good agencies or

00:03:15.560 someone doing it, we've been warned off of the ones we found. So there is a perfect example.

00:03:21.800 Now take the organized crime of, you know, charities where you can find these charity

00:03:29.200 watch groups, Pat, that find out that 80% of a donation gets tied up in administration and

00:03:34.140 running in the marketing of the charity and 20 cents on the dollar actually gets to save the

00:03:38.920 whales. It's horrible. And so what I look at from what Elon Musk just said, the appearance of

00:03:48.120 goodness is easy. Go to a dinner, stand in front of a logo sheet and take your picture. But getting

00:03:54.700 actual goodness to help people that are truly in need that you wanted to help them with something

00:03:59.980 is very, very, very difficult. I mean, even Oprah, Oprah tried to do the whole school in Africa

00:04:06.840 and she was no one wants to talk about it but she was kind of not as sharp about how it was done

00:04:16.440 and there were people there that kind of took advantage of the situation and the school went

00:04:21.020 broke it didn't work you see this yeah the school didn't work so you even have someone like oprah

00:04:25.820 who maybe really wanted to do something for a girls school or whatever it was in africa

00:04:29.480 and then the whole thing falls on its head.

00:04:32.700 Excuse me.

00:04:34.660 Was it – it was Gates.

00:04:36.420 Wasn't Gates did the computer labs at public schools in the United States?

00:04:40.080 And those failed.

00:04:41.460 So it's very, very hard to get the traction done to have something sustainable.

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00:05:15.780 Yeah.

00:05:16.480 Let me just read this, and I'm going to give you a book recommendation.

00:05:19.060 Number one, $275 million of our money went to Planned Parenthood.

00:05:23.040 There you go.

00:05:23.780 That's all you need to know.

00:05:24.620 We don't even need to go to the rest.

00:05:25.720 $51 million went to the Trevor Project for the LGBTQ youth, okay?

00:05:32.000 Transgender youth, $1.2 billion for racial equity education.

00:05:36.300 Big one.

00:05:37.040 Wow.

00:05:38.780 $586 million to racial justice groups, including Movement for Black Lives.

00:05:43.800 $163 million to LGBTQ organizations, including Transgender Law Center.

00:05:49.220 $133 million to gender equity.

00:05:51.800 $125 million to climate change.

00:05:53.640 200 million to open border immigration groups are you kidding me well this isn't charity it's

00:05:59.920 political donation of course it is so she gets to call it charity and look like she's helping

00:06:05.380 society but this is this is not elon your thoughts on this yeah i think it's it's political activism

00:06:10.620 i do think it's very very very hard to as you scale up a charity to make a measurable difference

00:06:16.300 i do think in cases like this it's just a loophole to fund these organizations that then go and

00:06:20.360 to affect social policy, a social engineer of society.

00:06:24.340 So I think that's the exact.

00:06:26.140 You see a pattern with these mega billionaire founders who die or get a divorce and where

00:06:34.080 their wives, what the wives do with the money.

00:06:36.440 The same thing was with Steve Jobs' wife, with a wife. 1.00

00:06:39.740 She did the same thing, where the money went to.

00:06:42.000 When you go and see where some of this money went to, it goes to the same type of organizations.

00:06:45.880 The people who didn't build it end up giving the money to organizations that are all this leftist organizations.

00:06:53.080 You know where that money didn't go? 1.00

00:06:55.440 Why didn't she want to pay taxes? 1.00

00:06:57.240 Well, that's the loophole here. 1.00

00:06:58.520 I thought taxes were a good thing, right?

00:07:01.740 That's what we're told.

00:07:02.480 Billionaires should pay taxes. 1.00

00:07:03.780 And here she is using a tax loophole to avoid paying taxes.

00:07:07.500 I think the only way to scale up something like this is to have your own foundation, have a lot of oversight.

00:07:12.100 There's just so much room for abuse when you're growing a charity.

00:07:14.460 But, yeah, again, this is obviously not—

00:07:15.840 You're assuming that she wants to do it honestly.

00:07:16.920 No, that's what I'm saying.

00:07:17.800 If you did theoretically, you really, really got to start small.

00:07:21.200 It's much easier to function charitably on a small level, impact personal people's lives.

00:07:26.180 I think things like GoFundMe are even ripe with abuse, unfortunately.

00:07:28.920 It's so tricky now.

00:07:29.600 But even people who do have an honest want to help people out.

00:07:34.600 I mean, look at what happens with homeless or drug abuse.

00:07:37.520 You throw tons and tons of money at it to people who really want to do something about homelessness,

00:07:41.700 and all it does is make the problem even bigger.

00:07:43.760 I think that's what Elon Musk was getting at, the idea that we throw money at things without trying to evaluate whether or not it's working simply because we're trying to reward the emotional status of the donor herself in this case.

00:07:56.140 It's like a trillion dollars a year.

00:07:57.500 We looked at that one.

00:07:58.760 What was the name of that organization that was doing the international operations that Elon Musk started poking at before?

00:08:04.160 There's a whole ecosystem of money that's essentially invisible that funds things like protests and fake psyops.

00:08:11.740 So it's a huge political mechanism to kind of shape how society thinks and shape the results on the ground.

00:08:18.820 So I think it's by design, it's very invisible, but it's like the primary way to launder money.

00:08:25.240 Yeah, let me give you, tell me if you see a pattern here.

00:08:28.120 These are the biggest donors, women of all time, to charity.

00:08:31.600 Ready? McKenzie Scott, $26 plus billion.

00:08:34.400 Notice if there's a pattern. 0.66

00:08:36.500 Melinda Gates, $15 to $18 billion. 0.95

00:08:38.720 Joan Kroc, and you got Lauren Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs' ex.

00:08:44.780 Not ex, Steve Jobs' widow.

00:08:46.840 $5 billion pledged, right?

00:08:48.960 What do you notice there?

00:08:50.640 Patterns, Melinda Gates, McKenzie Scott.

00:08:52.840 So I don't know. 0.88

00:08:54.560 Look, people can do whatever they want with their money.

00:08:57.940 My thing is always, what am I going to do?

00:09:00.520 What are you going to do?

00:09:01.260 This is their money.

00:09:02.040 They can do whatever the hell they want to do with their money

00:09:03.920 and their current system. 0.99

00:09:05.860 It tells me you need a prenup.

00:09:07.760 and a real prenup.

00:09:10.160 It tells me you need to really get serious about a prenup.

00:09:12.740 Number two, it tells me go read the book

00:09:14.360 Leaving a Legacy by Jonathan Kurtz, if you haven't yet.

00:09:18.800 It's 160 pages.

00:09:20.480 It tells you how the founder of Ford,

00:09:24.040 how furious he was, Henry Ford,

00:09:27.020 with creating a charity and handing it over

00:09:29.540 to his friends and family and what it did,

00:09:32.700 devastating what ended up happening to the money.

00:09:34.600 to the money if you've never read this go read the book go to on amazon and order this book

00:09:39.780 call your lawyer get a prenup or post nuptial setup in place and explain why and if somebody

00:09:46.760 you want to get married to you have money that you've made if they don't agree to it don't get

00:09:51.520 married yeah i'm telling you right now don't get married and and move to a friendlier state it's a

00:09:57.320 very weird time when you're going out there building everything with your family and you

00:10:01.720 Everything you've got going on and then one day something like this happens

00:10:04.700 and you've got to give this money and that money.

00:10:06.820 No, I think you've got, and by the way, the same thing applies with kids.

00:10:09.880 If you have a, you know, we had Morgan & Morgan on, John Morgan, funny guy.

00:10:14.960 He was on and he says, in our family, he has four kids, three or four kids.

00:10:19.740 I don't know, can you go to see how many kids he has?

00:10:21.240 He has a lot of kids.

00:10:21.820 Just go down on his, guys, you've just got to go lower on, yeah, four kids.

00:10:25.440 So when you, he says, whenever in our family, if any of my kids gets married to anybody,

00:10:31.000 guess what that person's spouse needs?

00:10:33.660 A nuptial agreement.

00:10:34.880 In the specific way that we like it.

00:10:37.180 If they don't, it's okay, but you get nothing from the trust.

00:10:41.740 And so if the wife says, I don't want to do it, don't worry about it, sweetheart.

00:10:45.140 It's okay.

00:10:45.740 Son, you're out of the trust.

00:10:47.700 It's very simple.

00:10:48.820 We're not going to have this thing set up.

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Valuetainment - July 07, 2026

“Political Activism” - Bezos' Ex-Wife Has Given $26.3 Billion to Charity

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