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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump donates first-quarter salary to National Parks Service
Will be used to maintain historic battlefield sites -- like the site of the infamous Bowling Green Masscare!
"The president has spoken with counsel and made the decision to donate his first-quarter salary to a government entity," Spicer said at Monday's briefing.
Spicer handed a check for $78,333.32 for the National Park Service to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Spicer said the paycheck starts from Jan. 20, when Trump took office, until now.
At Monday's briefing, Zinke said the donation will go to the maintaining historic battlefield sites.
During the campaign, Trump vowed that he wouldnt take the presidency's $400,000 annual salary if elected, and he repeated that promise after his victory in November.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/327036-trump-donates-first-quarter-salary-to-national-park-service
kentuck
(111,111 posts)Which he did not divest himself from and which is prohibited by our Constitution?
Ooooo,,, he donated his salary.
BFD !!
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)osaMABUSh
(2,195 posts)There was an excellent article I read a while back (can't find it now) that says if he would have just declined any salary it would cost the taxpayer much less than giving it away. I think they had the numbers too. Trump is getting a tax break by donating his salary to charity. So it is a net gain for him to take it and donate rather than taking no salary from us in the first place.
True Dough
(17,391 posts)http://www.arbiternews.com/2017/03/16/trumps-new-salary-promise-make-expensive-president-u-s-history/
Ms. Toad
(34,129 posts)https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/102
Donating it is the closest he can come to not drawing the salary. (You're correct that he is better off taking the salary & deducting it. But that's not an option.)
stillcool
(32,626 posts)for the Donald.
Vinca
(50,334 posts)lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)the rethugs still want to sell of the public lands to private ownership.
madamesilverspurs
(15,821 posts)of meaningless grandstanding.
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Tanuki
(14,931 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,129 posts)He's got a long way to go to counter all of the evil and extra expense. But I'll take drops of good where I can find them with this administration.
lame54
(35,349 posts)hatrack
(59,606 posts)A $12 billion backlog in Park Service maintenance, he just took a dump on any chance we had on climate, gutting the EPA, putting an ignorant clown in charge at DOE and now this PATHETIC BULLSHIT?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I'll believe it when I see it. Meanwhile, where are those tax returns?
EarthFirst
(2,906 posts)Thanks?
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)could change them to non-profit.
ananda
(28,914 posts)Sheesh