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President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly announced that he does not keep the official presidential salary and instead donates it to federal causes or agencies, often taking a nominal $1 paycheck, a pr...
Donald Trump publicly stated that he rather than keeping it, and multiple contemporary news reports document specific donations from presidential paychecks to entities like the White House Historical ...
Donald Trump publicly pledged and—according to multiple government press releases and news reports—did donate portions of his presidential salary to federal agencies and nonprofits during his first te...
Donald Trump publicly pledged to decline his presidential salary and announced repeated donations of portions of it to federal agencies and nonprofits; contemporaneous reporting confirms multiple docu...
Donald Trump has publicly said he donated his presidential salary to several government entities and a nonprofit: his first-term donations included the National Park Service (via the Department of the...
Three U.S. presidents are repeatedly identified as having donated their presidential pay while in office—Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, and Donald J. Trump—and George Washington is often noted for i...
Historians repeatedly place a small group of presidents at the bottom of scholarly rankings: . Different major surveys use varying methods and samples, but the consensus across Siena, C‑SPAN/APSA, and...
Donald Trump repeatedly said and reported that he donated his presidential salary during his first term, with multiple outlets and federal agencies confirming donations to specific agencies and projec...
Donald Trump does receive the statutory presidential salary of , but publicly stated he has been donating his quarterly paychecks to government entities and charities rather than keeping them for pers...
Presidents have approached one‑time military bonuses in two distinct historic patterns: executive reluctance or cautious management in crises (as with Herbert Hoover in 1932 and Calvin Coolidge in 192...
Yes. Several U.S. presidents have given away their presidential pay rather than keeping it: Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy donated their full presidential salaries to charity, and Donald Trump ple...
Barack Obama gave away portions of his presidential compensation—about of his total $3.2 million salary across his terms—and donated his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize to charities; there is that Geor...
The U.S. president’s statutory annual salary is $400,000, plus a $50,000 expense allowance, $100,000 travel account and $19,000 entertainment fund (total statutory salary line items commonly cited) . ...
Donald Trump publicly said during his 2016 campaign and again after the 2024 election that he would refuse the presidential salary, telling interviewers “I’m not taking it” and that he “didn’t accept ...
Scholarly and popular “worst president” lists repeatedly single out a small cluster of nineteenth- and early-twentieth‑century chiefs—James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Herbert Hoover an...
Military "bonuses" trace to early American practice of compensating servicemembers beyond regular pay—initially with land and cash after the Revolutionary War—and evolved into twentieth‑century "adjus...
The President of the United States can decline to keep the presidential salary in practice by donating it or refusing to pocket it, and historical precedent shows presidents have taken symbolic pay of...
Several U.S. presidents have declined to personally keep the full statutory presidential pay, but they have not all handled the proceeds the same way: John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover are repeatedly...
Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to donate his presidential salary and publicly reported donations of parts of it to federal agencies and the White House Historical Association; contemporaneous rec...
Donald Trump publicly said he donated his presidential salary in his first term and announced he would donate it again in 2025; contemporary White House releases and agency statements document quarter...