President Trump donates fourth-quarter salary to infrastructure projects
The Department of Transportation just joined the list of agencies to receive a salary donation from President Trump.
One day after rolling out a major infrastructure plan, the White House announced that Trump's fourth-quarter salary of $100,000 will go to rebuilding what Press Secretary Sarah Sanders called "our crumbling infrastructure."
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao accepted the donation in the press briefing room on behalf of her department.
Trump's donation is only a small fraction of what he wants to spend on infrastructure in the coming years. The White House on Monday announced a proposal to spend $21 billion on infrastructure in fiscal year 2019, which would be a part of a larger spending plan that dedicates $200 billion to infrastructure over the next 10 years.
The spending on federal programs would lead to an investment of $1.5 trillion on roads, bridges, waterways and railways, the White House says.
Since taking office, Trump has donated each of his salaries to federal agencies. His previous donations have gone to the National Park Service for battlefield infrastructure, the Department of Education to fund a summer camp and the Department of Health and Human Services to battle the opioid crisis.
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Promise kept. And who doesn't agree that our infrastructure isn't in dire need of repair? I know ours in New York State are.
I'm sure some will come on here and complain about this or that or just to yell 'TRUMP SUCKS', but he did keep his promise as he said he would. I have to wonder how many other elected officials out there are doing the same?
As my Sainted Mother would say "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth", or as I would say 100k is a 100k.
But he's still a naughty boy.
Lol ..... aren't they all?
Yes, that is one promise.
Now...I'm gonna go shut up before I get in trouble
LOL.....you are much more mature than some!
Trump has kept or tried to keep his promises at the best rate since Reagan was president.
It didn't take long!
He also promised that Mexico would pay for the wall. Besides, It's probably earmarked for the cart paths at Mar-a-Lago.
Where is the proof that the shitstain in chief donated money to anyone other than himself? Don't believe it.
Are your search engines broken again? Here's a full page that includes articles from Time, NBC, Politico, WaPo, CNBC, NYT, USA Today, etc. You can scroll through more pages, too. /SMH
You know, the funny thing is, I knew that your response would be this. Go to the link and look for yourself, not that you'll believe it. BTW, I think the president said the world is round. I'm looking forward to your flat earth theory.
Still don't believe it!
Trump has a long history of claiming donations that never seem to materialize. His charity scams are legendary.
Hey! That solid gold road to The New Trump Gatorland Park in Kissimmee, FL ain't gonna build itself...
Well, that was a pretty silly comment, but then again, I expected no less.
I'd like to see that delayed, anyway. We're already importing enough swamp creatures to Washington as it is. Let's not make it any easier.
Will it have a donkey for its park mascot so they can say....Kissimmee ass?
That's easy. His last name isn't Clinton.
Who is the shitstain in chief?
The person who launders your drawers?
I am at a loss as to why people think a multi-billionaire donating a few million dollars , about which he can claim his great beneficence in a public relations sense, is so noteworthy.
It was only $100,000 so just one tenth of $1 million or half of one membership fee at Mar-a-Lago.
I was contemplating him donating all his salary for 4 years, although I now see that even that wouldn't quite qualify as "millions".
quaterly, which means 4 times per year, at $100K per. You must study common core.
Yeah, but we are commenting on this donation of $100k. Even when factoring in an entire year of donations that's still only $400k or two memberships at Mar-a-Lago. He's costing us over $1million a month in secret service protection and travel expenses, the $100k per quarter is a drop in the bucket.
Totally offsets the amount of money being spent for quartering his entourage at his properties, I'm sure /s
Less than a single weekends worth.
See, I couldn't agree more, that's why I was happy to see President obama donate all his salary to offset the costs of going to Hawaii and Martha's Vineyard, his wife and kids on their world tour, the cost associated with paying her mom to babysit the kids, etc.
Oh wait, he didn't, bu that's okay. But I understand why you hold people you dislike to a different standard.
Compare Obama's travel expenditure to Trump's. Not even close.
Doesn't really matter, as Presidents are allowed to set their own travel schedules. If you don't like that freedom they have, you should advocate for legislation to put a stop to it.
How 'bout showing us some FACTS to support your attempted slam.
Also, did Obama and company stay at Obama-owned properties, enriching him personally?
Trump is using his government position to enrich his own businesses, and you praise him for throwing his loose change back in the pot. Laughable.
Seriously, 1st? You haven't seen how many weekends he spends at Mar-A-Lago?
Obviously you haven't either or you would post what I requested - FACTS.
The media called all of Obama's (many) weekend golf excursions and his weeks-long vacations (Hawaii, Martha's Vineyard) "working vacations", and the Left never whined about them. In fact, the Left said that a POTUS needs relaxation time. However, because it's Trump, the Left holds him to a different standard. How hypocritical!
By the way ... what portion of his salary did Obama donate?
Donald Rump has already taken more vacations than President Obama did during his entire 8 years.
Obama was living off his. Trump is profiting off the office and makes far more that way than that pissant salary.
Here you all go! Enjoy and then DEFEND IT.
This is from the very beginning:
Even right wing groups see it:
Never every fucking weekend (which is what Shitbag® is doing and plays at least two rounds of golf). But, you must be forgetting when Shitbag® ridiculed Obama and said he'd probably never leave the WH or play much golf he'd be so busy "working." We knew that was a lie from the moment it left his filthy mouth. I think is toadies still think it's somehow "true."
Is trump trying to shoe horn in working time between his relaxation events?
Really? Do you seriously believe that Bullshit? What exactly was he paying for? Everything comes with the job.
White House Rent. None.
Food. None.
Transport. None
Entertainment. None.
So what was he paying for with his whole paycheck?
non-official travel to rallies
Part of his job - sorry.
You really do have a foul mouth - when is something intelligent going to come out of it?
Rallies aren't a part of the job. It's a way that his deplorable supporters can kiss his ass.
Nope.
I don't mind POTUS taking vacations or hitting the links.
Nobody needs a vacation every single weekend.
If Obama had stayed along with his entourage at a property owned by himself, with fees for those stays lining his own pockets, the right would have been screaming for his impeachment (oh, that's right, they did scream for his impeachment), and rightly so.
It's Trump who is not being held to nearly the same standard as Obama. But we've come to expect such dishonest tactics.
Partisan re-election rallies are not part of the job of the POTUS. He isn't even halfway through his first term. Those rallies are just a way for him to inflate his ego in front of cheering knuckleheads.
Neither do I.
I agree. Obama didn't do it, and neither does Trump.
Does he take more time away than Obama?
Absolutely.
Is he personally profiting from those trips?
Yes.
The fact that you defend this tells me a lot about you, but ironically not anything that I didn't already know.
By making this personal in such a hostile manner, your comment shows that you didn't understand that in https://thenewstalkers.com/community/discussion/39143/4.2.19%20 Jasper2529" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> comment 4.2.19 I agreed with you. Have a great weekend.
Sure you were.
I sense a slap fight attempt, sandy, and I won't play that game. You can accuse me of whatever you want, but my comments are available for everyone to read.
So is their context.
Your comment indicates that campaign rallies were invented by Donald Trump. Here's a little history:
Honestly, if you would just hold the same standards you demand from the other side you would have a point. But time and time and time again republicans hold their politicians to a totally different standard - namely NONE! YOU ALL bitched and moaned about Obama and his travels. And everything else. Trump does it to an exponentially greater degree (fact, not fiction) and republicans just don't care. Just like the evangelicals and their support of Trump's morals. Who the hell even listens to this crap anymore? The right is a shell of their former selves. There is ZERO credibility on the right.
I hold all politicians to the same standards, and for you to accuse me of not doing so is ridiculous.
I don't know what to make of your rant, because I'm not registered with any political party yet you wrongly accuse me of being a Republican.
Stop acting like a child.
Pointing out how ridiculous it is to praise Trump for donating thousands while fleecing taxpayers for millions is not acting like a child. Pointing out the hypocrisy of different standards held by some conservatives for Obama vs. Trump is not acting like a child, and neither is pointing out the predictability of that hypocrisy.
It seems more like a disconnect than hypocrisy to me.
That said, I personally will never complain about anybody doing good things regardless of how good or bad a person that individual might be.
You are kinder than I am in your interpretation.
I have no problem with Trump donating his salary, and I wouldn't IF this weren't just something his supporters like to point out and say, "See! What a great guy!" while refusing to see how much he's taking in return. I have a problem with smokescreens, and a problem with people who get pissed when smokescreens are called smokescreens.
Yeah. He's obviously not a good guy. I like to look at the individual acts. He probably should be lauded for this particular move. However, that doesn't mean we thus need to forget that he is generally a dbag. But, acknowledging good acts is certainly a way to try and ensure that they continue.
In general, I would agree that positive reinforcement is a good thing. But the "good act" here had a "bad" motivation (cover for bad acts), so I think that praising this particular act, especially while ignoring or defending the bad acts, rather tends to reinforce the bad motivation.
If he wasn't making money from his vacations at Mar-A-Lago I would applaud his donating his salary.
But he's making more money from his stays at Mar-A-Lago (at taxpayer expense) than the salary he's earning
Which is what this article is about, though the other side of the fence can't stop mouth breathing and slobbering their hatred no mater what-regardles of what is done.
We choose not to ignore the context of his donation, and its motivation. Nobody's putting on blinders to suit you.
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Take your off topic conversation elsewhere, Randy.
oooohhh - $100,000 for American infrastructure. That might cover the bolts that hold the stop signs to the posts in a couple states. Washers are extra though - maybe next quarter. I wonder how 100k compares to the profits the Trump hotel in DC has "earned" from foreign dignitaries looking to curry favor with the POTUS?
Good points.
I'm fully expecting a backlash from Trumpsters for being so callous about such a gracious gift. Something along the lines of "I mean, heck - it's 100k! Did you give away your salary?"
The ridiculous scale of this gesture would make a fitting theme for a reboot of the movie Idiocracy.
Not really. The point is he donated his salary, as he said he would.
Finding fault for that act of generosity is expected of you, it's all you know how to do.
To understand how inconsequential the scale of this gesture is, imagine an article written about the mayor of your city who told the pizza delivery guy to keep the change.
Yeah, as he's getting 10s of millions from his hotels and clubs which is a violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
I'm sure if it was, some brave district attorney would have filed charges by now, don't you?
What??
Some Democrats have been saying for quite a while now that Trump doesn't have any money!
BTW, what have any Democratic Presidents donated their salaries?
Or you?
Tell ya what Hal - how 'bout giving us a list of other WH/Congressional persons who donate ANY of their salaries.
Oops.
If I donated 50 cents would it make you feel better? That's a higher percentage of my yearly earnings than 100k is to Trump's. As far as other politicians, take that up with them - since it's irrelevant to the fact that Trump is just doing the absolute very least he can to conjure up the image he wants suckers to buy into.
As it is what the article is about it isn't irrelevant. And no one expects you to make a donation to anything else besides yourself.
Who else is has the (purported) wealth as well as the illegal* ongoing annual income of your Shitbag®?
*see emoluments clause, US Constitution.
Please show all illegal income, then explain why no one has filed any charges (here's a clue: what you said is bullshit).
True, barely a drop in the bucket and the deplorable supporters are having orgasms over their shitstain in chief fixing ALL THE INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS THE ENTIRE US
Pathetic ain't it?
"I'm going to fix healthcare, and it's only going to cost a tiny fraction of what you are paying now - and it's going to be soooo easy!!"
A $100K wouldn't pay for the dirt moving on a small job or getting the equipment set up on the site of a large project. $100K might pay for the engineering and survey work, maybe.
And that would depend on the job. It might pay for the engineering work on a large water treatment plant
It'd be awesome if his example inspired others, from rich members of Congress to other business people.
He would save tax payers far more if he just stopped going to his golf course so often. Tossing back $100k is a drop in the bucket compared to what he's costing us.
Obama's family spent $114M plus for his vacations - including his wife, daughters, mother-in-law, 2 aunts and friends. And that doesn't include the miscellaneous costs of SS protection, servants, communications, etc..
Trump has spent less than a 10th.
Apples and oranges.
"Judicial Watch offered a more conservative estimate for Trump.
The watchdog group calculated the costs of five of Trump’s and three of Melania’s Mar-a-Lago visits and Vice President Mike Pence’s Super Bowl trip in February using Air Force hourly travel rates obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Those added up to a total of $3.6 million.
That excludes, however, any of Trump’s trips after March and security costs, as the Secret Service hasn’t yet provided the data requested through the Freedom of Information Act. They also exclude other expenses, like $3.3 million in overtime costs Palm Beach County’s presidential residence protection program incurred during Trump’s visits.
An internal agency document obtained by the Washington Post in March gives a better estimate of the amount spent on security by the Trump administration.
The report said the Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding for next year. $26.8 million would go to protecting Trump’s family in Trump Tower and $33 million would fund travel costs. The Management and Budget Office had rejected the request.
More recently, Secret Service Director Randolph Alles told USA Today that more than 1,000 agents have already hit the federally mandated annual caps for salary and overtime allowances .
He attributed the dearth to both an unprecedented number of White House protectees -- Trump has 42, including his 18 family members, whereas Obama had 31 -- and efforts to secure Trump’s multiple residences."
"More agents worked travel days protecting Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the six-month mark than Trump: 534 travel days to 378 for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. But when we added the president and vice president’s associated family members into the mix, agents had traveled 4,054 days protecting Trump to Obama’s 1,621 . That’s in part because Trump has a larger family with adult children whose business ties take them all over the world."
Even conservative groups acknowledge Trump is costing tax payers more per month than Obama ever did.
PunditFact is funded in part by $625,000 in grants over two years from the Ford Foundation and the Democracy Fund . Seed money for the project was provided by craigconnects .
And you're relying on them???
Can you dispute the article? Didn't think so. I don't care if Jesus paid for it, if the information is accurate, who gives a fuck who paid for it?
I would donate my poker change....but then I wouldn't have any poker change
Gasoline for my toys........need a GoFundMe Campaign.
How many dinosaur-powered toys do you have?
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Split-Personality, telling someone that is asking personal questions that has nothing to do with the article, and that person having no reason to ask those kind of questions at hand and being told it's none of their goddamned business is not taunting or bullying. And if you're going to start enforcing 'civility', then do it on the rest of this article. I like the fact that you are actively moderating, but over-moderating seems to be the disease you've caught.
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The rest of America can divvy up $100,000 and try to find a way to use it on "infrastructure".
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Well considering the corruption in Trump World; Pruitt is just one example--the $100,000 will buy a brick and a wheelbarrow full of gravel.
Here is the only problem I have with this. Trump is MAKING a lot more than 100k just by being president, and I am not talking about his salary. He charges the Secret Service $50,000.00 to use his golf carts to follow him around when he is golfing on his golf courses. Hey, hats off to him for donating, but it really is an empty gesture. It's more of a, "hey, I need some praise for donating" gesture than anything. Why not meals on wheels? Oh wait, he already shut down that one.
The $100k is approximately the cost of the security for the president for every round of golf. And I am talking only about the time period spent on the golf course.
President Obama became a multi-millionaire while Presdient and no one ever questions that. Please stay on topic. The topic is donation of his salary.
Pres Obama wrote books, that's how he became a multi-millionaire. He didn't become one by fleecing the American taxpayer
Shouldn't he just allow the SS to use the carts w/o charge? I know I would.
Yes.
Such a lovely and selfless act to donate $100,000 in taxpayer funds to a federal department that is funded entirely by taxpayer funds. I bet Bill and Melinda Gates are feeling like a couple of assholes right about now regarding their paltry philanthropic gestures.
In reality he cannot donate directly to anything, all moneys donated to the Gov are sent to the U.S Treasury to be distributed based on appropriation law. The Treasury could earmark the 100K for some infrastructure project or they could earmark it for planned parenthood. there is no guarantee where it will actually go.
LOL! I hope it goes to Planned Parenthood....
No, it is his salary and like anyone else who earns a living, Trump can direct where HIS money 💵 goes. He’s picked a different recipient each payday/quarter.
Does not matter, people cannot give directly to gov programs to increase their appropriations. Only congress can do that. The money by law goes into the treasury to be dispersed as congress sees fit. What Trump is doing is re-directing his pay check back to the Treasury not to any specific infrastructure programs, those programs have already been authorized their appropriations for FY18, they can only request an increase in appropriations from congress who will then provide funds from the treasury.
I believe the legal term is called Augmenting an Appropriation, which is a no no.
Did you just actually tie yourself into a knot so you could be correct? Wow.
nope just figuring out how it would be legally possible to say i donated my salary to this or that. As one cannot donate funds to augment an existing appropriation. The only way it could have been done is to reduce one appropriation and add it to another before the next FY appropriations were distributed. Trump does communicate with congressman and can easily say put 100k this quarter here and put 100K there. Then when that Quarter comes he can then truthfully say I donated X to Y.
The mechanics behind the donation are not explained in the article so I just did the homework for anyone who may be interested how it could have occurred.
The fucktard in chief makes that amount in illegal emoluments every week.
I bet you can prove that like Rachel Maddow proved Trump paid taxes!
Prove what? That trump owns most of the places he frequents and the taxpayer is stuck with the bloated expenses of his oversized secret service contingent?
No--what you first claimed--that Trump makes that much in illegal emoluments every week.
You wrote it, so I was sure you could back it up with proof.
As we all know, there is no evidence of any emoluments issue for the President.
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I see you couldn't prove what you claimed.
Prove that it's false.
You are the one claiming illegal activities. It is incumbent on you to prove your allegations--if you can, of course!
See, when someone is accused of a crime, they don't have to prove they didn't do it--the prosecutors have to prove that the person actually DID it.
You don't get tocome here and claim something without any backup facts/links, then tell someone else to prove what you wrote is false. That is childish.
And typical.
Jeez, that would be like me saying you are a dumbass, and then telling you to prove you aren't.
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Not really. I make it a point not to listen to what most morons have to say about anything. Unless of course, their statements are so willfully ignorant, I can't let them pass without mocking them.
Then you should be able to back your claims up with some proof.
Absent that proof, I highly doubt your claim is true.
A lot easier than defending hypocrisy.
So, you made a claim and you have continually failed to back it up with any facts. Either prove your case or stop posting here.
Most people don't though. 100k is never an insignificant amount.
It seems that way when you know a porn star got $30K more for less effort.
It does however prove what a great negotiator trump really is though. Bill O'Reilly paid $30 million to keep his strap-on riding videos secret.
And Bill Clinton paid $850K to keep one of his rapes quiet. Now, get back on topic or be gone.
So conservatives now consider propositioning someone and exposing your genitals to them as "rape"?
"According to Paula Jones' account, on May 8, 1991, she was escorted to Clinton's hotel room in Little Rock, Arkansas , where he propositioned and exposed himself to her."
"On appeal, in the midst of his trial for impeachment based on his testimony in the Jones case, Clinton was faced with the prospect of having to go under oath again and testify more about his sexual history. Instead, Clinton agreed to an out-of-court settlement, paying Jones and her lawyers $850,000 to drop the suit; the vast majority of this money was used to pay Jones's legal fees"
Now I don't for a minute excuse what he did, it was wrong, but if exposing yourself to someone is the same as rape then there are a lot of flashers out there who apparently need to be given 15+ year sentences in prison.
Current events are much more comical.
I fail to see what is so comical about Trump donating his salary to a worthy cause.
$130K to fuck a porn queen and $100K to fuck the American public. trump and Stormy put in the same amount of effort to earn that money.
Now THAT is infrastructure!
People mis-use the word rape to the point to where it discounts what it is to really be raped. I was raped several times over a four month period when I was a very small and skinny 7 year old boy by one of my mother's boyfriends. So I get angry when I here people say stupid shit like there house was broken into and they say something like "Oh I feel like I was raped!" No you fucking don't! Or something happens to them and they say "Oh, it was just like being raped." No it fucking was not! You know what is just like being raped? Being raped is just like being raped!
I also object to calling consensual sex with an underage person, rape. Consensual sex is not rape, period. I'm not saying it shouldn't be illegal, we can't allow experienced older men to prey on teenagers, but calling it rape is a slap in the face to everyone who has been raped. But we're starting to get (gasp!) off topic here, and the NT Nazis might object!
Umm, because it's a drop in the bucket compared to the money Trump is raking in by using the presidency for his own personal gain while neglecting his duties as President? Why am I even talking to you?
My mistake, that was unwanted sexual advances by Bill Clinton that he paid $850K for. Did he ever have to pay to cover up any of his other sexual escapades?
I'm sorry, Randy-that was my mistake above. And I'm sorry that happened to you. I have a family member that was raped and it is not a joking matter, nor something I should throw around lightly.
It's no problem Gary. You and I have talked about this before and I don't take offense about it from you. No problem. You would think that at 61 I would stop being a little touchy about it, but you never do.
My family member has gone on to be a travelling speaker to women-in an empowerment role, all over the country. She truly was able to make lemonade out of the lemons she received. I wish others could also, though each person is different. Have a good weekend, Randy.
UNDERSTAND … THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS DECLINING HIS SALARY!
By "donating" his salary as opposed to, AS HE PROMISED -- "NOT TAKING A SALARY," TRUMP GETS A TAX DEDUCTION -- WHICH MEANS THAT HIS SALARY IS NOT ONLY PAID BY THE TAX PAYER, BUT BECAUSE A "DONATION" REDUCES HIS TAX LIABILITY …
… we, the taxpayers, are actually out both his salary and what is lost to the Treasury via his deduction.
TRUMP is slick, deceptive … and counts on Boobus americana NOT BEING TOLD, nor capable of understanding, WHAT I JUST EXPLAINED!
Make America Gullible Again!
Take it a step farther, A Mac. He cannot legally decline his salary, right? Intellectual Honesty is something I expect from you. And since he can't legally decline his salary, he donated instead. Oh that horrible bastard. /sarc off
And stop yelling. It's unbecoming for a man of your age.
TRUMP STILL DISINGENUOUSLY TAKES CREDIT FOR DECLINING HIS SALARY AS A PLOY TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK GOOD!
After Pledging to Donate Salary, Trump Declines to Release Proof
And while it's true the Constitution, however, requires that the president receive a salary … he can literally "give it back to the Treasury." And again, by giving it to charity, he costs the Treasury an additional amount beyond the $400,000.
Let's call it what it is.
Don't question my integrity, and, as a (retired Newspaper editor and five-time published author), long before someone arbitrarily decided that ALL CAPS on the internet was the equivalent of "shouting," I and others who dealt in print, used various font, faces, variations and styles for emphasis where effective.
Albeit an electronic medium, the internet still deals in PRINT.
And while it's true the Constitution, however, requires that the president receive a salary … he is not obligated to actually be in receipt of it … he can literally "give it back to the Treasury"
Forget discussing "style" and address my content.
And my age has no bearing (except where I can't do some of the stuff as frequently or effectively as I used to).
For the record … friends can strongly disagree and still remain friends … so that no one takes my comment as anything other than a rebuttal … I still consider you my friend.