President-elect Donald Trump is once again refusing to accept a presidential salary, just as he did during his first term, he told NBC's Kristen Welker.
When asked if he intended to receive a presidential salary, Trump replied, “I don't intend to receive a salary, no.”
“I'm going to give up a lot of money. You know? You know, I was surprised by this, and this may not be right, but every president other than George Washington, except me, And every president has accepted a salary,” Trump said.
Welker then asked if Trump received a pension, to which the president-elect replied, “I don't think he received anything.”
“The president gets about $450,000 a year and I don't,” he said, adding, “By the way, I don't get that benefit. That's OK.”
“Well, that's why I'm asking you about this, and I think it's remarkable, that you're not going to get paid,” Welker responded.
“I didn't do it, I never will, and I don't believe I got any credit for it, but I just feel like, to me, it's a great thing,” Trump said. '' he expressed surprise. No other president has done that.
“What surprised me was that no president had ever done that. I thought Roosevelt wouldn't accept a salary or a Kennedy — you know, the Kennedys are rich,” he added. .
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Mr. Trump also declined his first-term presidential salary and donated it to various institutions on a quarterly basis.
In 2017, Trump donated his quarterly salary. Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Transportation, Department of Education, as Breitbart News reported.
In 2018, Trump donated his third quarter salary to a federal agency that studies alcoholism. This was near and dear to Trump, as his older brother, Fred Trump Jr., suffered from alcoholism and died at the young age of 43.
As another example, President Trump's first quarter salary of 2019 went To the Department of Homeland Security:
And in 2020, President Trump donated One portion of his quarterly paycheck goes to the National Park Service to “support the restoration and rehabilitation of our great national monuments.”
Trump was originally promised When he ran for office in September 2015, voters pledged to waive his presidential salary, and he has kept that promise.
