Your fact-checks will appear here
Donald J. Trump's donation of his presidential salary to federal agencies during his term.
The statutory presidential pay is , and ’s public record shows that he received that salary while announcing quarterly donations of roughly $100,000 to federal agencies during his first term . Fact‑ch...
Donald J. Trump publicly pledged and repeatedly delivered quarterly transfers of his presidential paychecks to federal agencies during his term, and multiple government press releases and news investi...
Donald J. Trump publicly fulfilled his campaign pledge to forgo the net benefit of the presidential salary by making quarterly gifts of roughly $100,000 to federal agencies and by returning or directi...
repeatedly pledged to and the administration announced quarterly donations to federal agencies, with several specific checks publicly confirmed; however, public records and tax disclosures leave gaps ...
No—the presidency’s statutory pay remains $400,000 a year, roughly $33,333 per month, and available reporting shows no factual basis for the claim that “raised his presidential salary over $2 million ...
’s claim that other presidents “did the same” by donating their presidential pay is misleading: a handful of wealthy presidents have given their salaries away, typically to charities, but Trump’s patt...
Donald Trump pledged during his 2015 campaign that he would “accept no salary” if elected and thereafter repeatedly said he would donate his presidential pay; public records and White House announceme...
The president’s $400,000 salary is ordinary taxable income under federal law and subject to the same income‑tax rules as any other wage, even if the president announces he will “donate” the pay; chari...