Really? What do you think he is getting out of being president? In office, he donated his paycheck, banned lobbying, and spent millions of his own money.
How naive. Billionaires don’t
care about salaries. They
don’t want salaries — even from the companies they own — because they have to pay taxes on salaries!
You are thinking like an ordinary worker.
Billionaires increase their wealth by increasing the value of their untaxed
assets or from corporate earnings that enrich their privately or publicly owned companies — companies that today generally issue little or no taxable dividends. They have lines of credit (loans, which are not taxable) backed by their huge asset wealth which allows them to live like kings. They pay negligible interest on these endless lines of credit! Giving up a “presidential salary” for public relations purposes is nothing … to a billionaire.
“Banned lobbying” — where, when, to what effect? This is a bad joke.
“Spent millions of his own money” — prove it. He promised originally to finance his own campaigns, but turned them into just another con to milk his followers. Now he claims to being “unfairly persecuted” (though he brought most of his problems unto himself through his big mouth or his own conduct) — and of course his followers are still sending him tens of millions to fight those perverts, communists and “Demonrats.”
Only history will reveal if Trump and his family businesses emerge richer or poorer from when he first walked down that Trump Tower escalator.
Trump was always famous — from the days of his being a spoiled heir of a billionaire father — for seeking fame and attention, needing and enjoying the media spotlight in NYC, appreciated by the politicians mostly for giving freely to whoever was in power.
Failing to grow his many businesses, bankrupting many, ruining contractors and partners, finally even the big U.S. banks stopped offering him cheap business loans. So Trump took to branding
himself and his name, re-invented himself as a media personality, and used his cunning and savvy to turn to the big stage and spotlight of national politics. Money was always one obsession for “The Donald,” but egoism and ego-gratification was what drove him and still drives him.
I watched (as a blue collar worker) Donald Trump grow up in NYC and saw how he evolved into the aggrieved old megalomaniacal demagogue he became, dividing the country and bringing us to the brink of civil war.
But because he knows well how to push your buttons, you think he did it all out of … altruism, and for the good of our nation!