Yeah, He “donated” His salary to His “charities”.
And here's what really happened:
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.
Donations to the
Department of Education ($100,000),
Department of Health and Human Services ($100,000) and the
Department of Transportation ($100,000) followed Trump’s grant to the NPS in 2017.
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.
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