--- title: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend Celebrated Trump's Birthday By Donating a Ton of Money to Help Immigrant Families description: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend donated to the ACLU on Trump's birthday amid the administration's controversial immigration policies authors: - name: Billy Perrigo url: https://money.com/author/billy-perrigo/ at_money_since: 2017 articles: 17 covers: - Lifestyle - Business - Identity Theft - Investing - Shopping - Technology social: - https://x.com/billyperrigo former_staff: true published: '2018-06-15T12:28:00.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T10:36:12.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - celebrities - onetime word_count: 192 canonical: https://money.com/chrissy-teigen-aclu-trump-birthday/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Chrissy Teigen and John Legend at 2018 Sundance](https://img.money.com/2018/06/teigen-legend-aclu-donation.jpg) *Chrissy Teigen (L) and John Legend attend the 'Monster' Premiere during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival at Eccles Center Theatre on January 22, 2018 in Park City, Utah.* [Chrissy Teigen and John Legend](https://time.com/5233865/chrissy-teigen-john-legend-relationship-timeline/) pledged to “Make Trump’s Birthday Great Again" — donating $288,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union after hearing the ["horror stories" of immigrant families seeking asylum being separated](https://time.com/5311971/parents-children-us-border/). The Hollywood power couple celebrated President Donald Trump's 72nd birthday, which was on Thursday, by donating $72,000 from each member of their family including their two children, 2-year-old Luna and 1-month-old Miles. Teigen and Legend urged others to follow their lead —asking people to donate $7.20 or $72 to the ACLU. “These actions are cruel, anti-family and go against everything we believe this country should represent,” they wrote in a joint statement shared on social media. “The ACLU is committed to defending the rights and humanity of these vulnerable families.” The Trump administration has implemented strict border enforcement policies, where [new estimates](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-children-exclusive/exclusive-nearly-1800-families-separated-at-us-mexico-border-in-17-months-through-february-idUSKCN1J42UE) show 1,600 families — some seeking asylum from persecution — were separated between October 2016 and February 2018. The separations include children being taken from their parents. On Thursday, senior Republican lawmakers including House Speaker Paul Ryan [distanced themselves](https://time.com/5313052/gop-republican-children-parents-family-separations-trump-administration/) from the White House policy. “We don’t want kids to be separated from their parents,” Ryan said. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/chrissy-teigen-aclu-trump-birthday/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Celebrities", "item": "https://money.com/celebrities/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Chrissy Teigen and John Legend Celebrated Trump's Birthday By Donating a Ton of Money to Help Immigrant Families" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/chrissy-teigen-aclu-trump-birthday/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/chrissy-teigen-aclu-trump-birthday/", "name": "Chrissy Teigen and John Legend Celebrated Trump's Birthday By Donating a Ton of Money to Help Immigrant Families", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2018-06-15T12:28:00.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/chrissy-teigen-aclu-trump-birthday/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/chrissy-teigen-aclu-trump-birthday/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T10:36:12.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Chrissy Teigen and John Legend Celebrated Trump's Birthday By Donating a Ton of Money to Help Immigrant Families", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2018/06/teigen-legend-aclu-donation.jpg", "width": 3600, "height": 2656, "caption": "Chrissy-Teigen-John-Legend-Donation" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Billy Perrigo", "url": "https://money.com/author/billy-perrigo/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/billy-perrigo/#author", "email": "billy.perrigo@time.com", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/billyperrigo" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2018-06-15T12:28:00.000Z", "description": "Chrissy Teigen and John Legend donated to the ACLU on Trump's birthday amid the administration's controversial immigration policies", "abstract": "Chrissy Teigen and John Legend donated to the ACLU on Trump's birthday amid the administration's controversial immigration policies", "@id": "https://money.com/chrissy-teigen-aclu-trump-birthday/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T10:36:12.000Z", "wordCount": 192, "keywords": [ "celebrities", "onetime" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Celebrity", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity" ] } ] } ] } ```