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"Trump Kept His Promise: Donated All His $1.6M Salary To Federal Agencies
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Donald Trump promised he would refuse to take a salary as president while campaigning in 2016
As it is illegal for presidents to decline their salary, he instead donated the money to various federal agencies
Trump's move to forego a salary follows similar steps taken by Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy
Donald Trump kept his promise to donate his salary as president, reports say. Here’s how he donated the paychecks he received during his four-year term at the White House.
As president, Trump received an annual salary of $400,000. As presidents are not legally allowed to decline their salary, he wrote checks equal to a quarter of his annual salary every quarter to various government agencies.
The National Park Service (NPS) was the first recipient of Trump’s presidential salary in 2017, Forbes reported. The government agency received his reported take-home pay of $78,333, plus an additional $22,000 from an anonymous donor to bump the donation to $100,000. The donation was reportedly used for the Newcomer House on the Antietam battlefield restoration project and the replacement of its rail fencing.
In 2018, the Veteran’s Administration, Small Business Administration, National Institutes of Health’s
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and Department of Homeland Security each received $100,000 in donations from the billionaire.
The following year, the former commander in chief made similar donations to the Department of Agriculture for a program benefiting farmers and the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS)
Office of the Surgeon General.
In 2019, he also gave $100,000 each to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to help “the ongoing fight against the opioid crisis” and the HHS to “support the efforts being undertaken to confront, contain and combat #Coronavirus.”
For 2020, Trump donated $100,000 to the HHS’ efforts to find treatment and prevention methods for COVID-19 and another round for the NPS. The latter was used for the repairs of national monuments across the country.
Maybe next time they're lecturing us about being "inclusive" or helping America become more "equitable", we should remind them what hypocritical absolute Scrooges they are.
And yet still so many will fall for their bogus routine.
Remember when the last President donated his entire salary to charity?
Maybe next time they're lecturing us about being "inclusive" or helping America become more "equitable", we should remind them what hypocritical absolute Scrooges they are.
And yet still so many will fall for their bogus routine.
Remember when the last President donated his entire salary to charity?
Now enjoy your inflation and high gas prices, ya peons.
Don't be selfish, it's patriotic....to Ukraine.
Or something.
is there a link to their tax returns, so we can actually see, instead of relying on unreliable Gateway Pundit? For example, it says nothing about any dollar figures for Kamala and her rich husband.
I don't blame them.. they know that most charities are run by criminals and mainly are garbage. Sure they will con the american tax payer but they worked hard to milk their fair share so won't give it away easily.
but charities that are 501c3 have to file tax returns that show how well they spend the money (outside executive salaries, etc).
Tell me the infallible news source you go to that gets everything so right all the time.
Here's a helpful hint to get you started: It ain't the New York Times, WaPo, CNN or MSDNC. They get everything wrong all the time. Literally. (As the "Pres" says.)
LARPing about how "unreliable" altnerative news sources are is the ultimate gas lighting.
The Bidens reported giving $995 in charitable donations last year — about 0.3% of their income and the highest amount in the past decade. The low was $120 in 1999, about 0.1% of yearly income.
Over the decade, the Bidens reported a total of $3,690 in charitable donations, or 0.2% of their income.
The Biden's have always been uncharitable people.
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