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No Salary

Last week President Trump fulfilled another campaign promise (“If I am elected, I will accept no salary”), as he donated his second quarter salary of $100,000 to Education Secretary Betsy DuVos – this money to go toward hosting a camp for STEM students at the Department of Education. For those of you who had missed this announcement on CNN/MSNBC, this is the second time that President Trump has donated his quarterly salary. His first quarter salary of $78,000 was previously donated to the National Park Service.

Have any past presidents chosen not to accept their salary?

Did Barack Obama accept his salary while he was in office?

Yes, B.O. did accept his $400,000 per year salary. After all, he whined that he and Michelle had just paid off their college loans a few years before he was elected, and they needed to put money into the college funds for their daughters. He also said that he accepted his salary merely in order to show solidarity with all of the other federal workers! Wow! (If you believe that, I have a bridge that I want to sell you.) That did not make any sense back then, and it certainly does not make any sense now considering that the Obamas are getting a record book deal worth more than $60 million.

Fortunately, I will not need to read that book as I already know how they feel about things. I remember B.O. in 2008 talking about how small-town Americans “cling to guns and religion,” and I vividly recall Mrs. Obama in 2008 saying, “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am proud of my country!”

Although I do not read the Washington Post or the N.Y Times regularly, I doubt that Trump not accepting his salary made the front page of either as I have not seen this item in my local WaPo/NYT wannabe “newspaper.”

FYI – In the history of the USA only two and possibly three presidents have chosen not to accept their salary. JFK and Herbert Hoover did not receive a salary, and whether George Washington accepted his salary is open to question.

Add Donald Trump to that list.”Congrats” to President Trump for fulfilling another campaign promise.

 

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