Fact check: President Donald Trump donates his salary, but he still makes money<\/h2>\n
Earlier this year, the foundation paid a $2,500 penalty to the I.R.S. There is no way to know from Trump\u2019s tax returns whether the money he donated included his salary, as the post claims. The tax returns show only how much was donated and claimed in charitable contributions, Jeffrey Hoopes, research director at the UNC Tax Center, told USA TODAY in an email.<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump has donated $100,000\u2014his salary from the third-quarter of 2018\u2014to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Trump did not report any charitable contributions on his 2020 taxes. Hoopes said no one is legally required to report any donation on a tax return. Cynthia Hernandez, a spokesperson for the National Park Service, referred USA TODAY to a 2017 press release that states Trump donated over $78,000 from his salary to the agency to restore two projects at the Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland. Axios reported on Wednesday that Trump was planning to host a dinner for supporters that evening at Mar-a-Lago. It will be terminated,\u201d Trump promised, vowing to end the LGBTQ+ protections which include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.<\/p>\n
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- President Donald Trump did not donate his entire salary for the purpose of rebuilding military cemeteries.<\/li>\n
- “It’s an adaptation of that program for our veterans, helping them transition from military life into private sector if they desire to start their own jobs and their own companies and be entrepreneurs.”<\/li>\n
- Last year, when Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, Franklin Graham defended the proposal.<\/li>\n
- CNN reports that \u201cfederal regulations prohibit agencies from accepting donated funds unless Congress grants authority to the agency to accept the donation.<\/li>\n
- There has also been rampant speculation that he may even be in the early stages of dementia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
For the period from 1990 to 2009, his annual donations to his foundation averaged $185,000 a year. Trump vowed during the 2016 campaign to donate his $400,000 annual salary if elected, and during his two years in office has donated his salary to agencies including the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. President Donald Trump donated his second-quarter salary for 2018 to the Small Business Administration, reaffirming his promise https:\/\/www.gothicbeauty.com\/2015\/07\/dark-meets-domineering-an-interview-with-william-control\/<\/a> to forgo a presidential paycheck. The 2020 first-quarter salary donation was mentioned briefly by the press secretary at a press conference on May 22, 2020. McEnany said the first quarter would again be going to HHS, this time to “develop new therapies for treating and preventing COVID-19 so that we can safely reopen.” Trump reported nearly $2 million in charitable donations in 2017 and a little over $500,000 in charitable donations in both 2018 and 2019, according to his tax returns and the report.<\/p>\n
In a tweet, Judd Deere, the deputy press secretary, confirmed that Trump’s first-quarter 2020 salary will be going to HHS for “the development of new therapeutics to treat #COVID19 infections.” Trump pledged https:\/\/status4boys.ru\/b03\/12-eto-ne-rep-i-eto-ne-dzhaz-eto-dva-duha-skrebut-unitaz.html<\/a> to refuse the $400,000 salary that comes with being the U.S. president shortly after winning the election. Since then he\u2019s held to his promise, with each quarterly pay going to a different organization.<\/p>\n