"I am the only President on record to give up my yearly $400,000 plus Presidential Salary!"

[jayfish]

That is from a fresh Thrump tweet. Has this alleged practice been thoroughly investigated? I don't think he'd give up a $1 bill.Why should anyone else believe this?

[Miguelito Loveless]

1. Even if he did,

He's stealing hundreds of times that amount in tax fraud.

[jimfields33]

6. Not only that but Kennedy did as well

Maybe he didn’t add him because it wasn’t 400K but he still didn’t take a salary. Trump gets worse by the minute.

[Hamlette]

44. and President Hoover.

[jimfields33]

47. Thank you. That is great to know.

[Hamlette]

53. a few similarities indeed, both rich f--kers.

[jayfish]

21. That's not my point.

These are talking points he's disseminating to his flock. They will take it at face value, run with it and it will shade media coverage. The end result? The needle will not move. It's already is shading coverage. I wouldn't give two shits about an Orange tweet unless I heard it being broadcast.

[Boogiemack]

41. But he took a 400K tax write off and 750 back. nt

[Heartstrings]

2. That's a major excuse I'm seeing

but no one can seem to “prove it”. Being the narcissist he is, you know he would be showing documents galore...if it were true.

[jayfish]

23. That's What I'm Talking About.

It's the running excuse and his marks will eat it up. "He's sooooo philanthropic". :eyes"

[madashelltoo]

3. He gives up $400,000 and

Steals how many hundred millions? That’s called priming the pump.

[Chipper Chat]

4. No

I'm pretty sure George Washington gave his up too. 😠all 400 thousand of it.

[Aristus]

8. And JFK.

n/t

[rickford66]

5. What was the previous salary for other Presidents?

Technically accurate statement.

[Massacure]

28. The salary has been increased from time to time over the 20th century

It was $100,000 a year following Truman's first election in 1948 (he was paid $75,000 per year while finishing FDR's 4th term), increased to $200,000 a year starting with Nixon's first term, and then again to $400,000 with George W Bush's first term.

[rickford66]

39. So Bush and Obama didn't return their $400,000 salary.

My point is that Trump gets away with this statement.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. Ought to be easy to prove.

Release the documents that prove it, Trump.

And release the tax returns that prove you paid millions to the IRS.

[Massacure]

30. Trump has actually tweeted about his donations

Trump's administration was actually mocked sometime back when Sara Sanders posted a pic of a check in which Trump's account number and bank routing number were not edited out.

[OhioBlue]

32. But was the check ever delivered and cashed

and was there more than 1?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I can't imagine him giving up any amount of money for any reason.

As the old saying goes, he'd steal the dimes off a dead man's eyes, so I don't believe for a minute that he gave up his salary. But even if he did, he's more than made up for it in his grifts off the government.

[tetedur]

10. This is not true, of course. John F. Kennedy didn't get a presidential salary.

When President Kennedy took office in 1961, he was a very wealthy man. His family’s worth was around $1 billion at the time, and he himself had a multimillion-dollar trust fund. He certainly didn’t need the presidential salary ($100,000 annually with a $50,000 expense account, at the time) to get by. So, he donated it all to charity instead.

https://www.payscale.com/career-news/2016/08/presidential-salary-stories

[duforsure]

11. Coming from the most prolific liar as president we've ever had,

We need proof, so show us your taxes.

[greenjar_01]

12. He banks many multiples of that just by requiring Secret Service to stay at his properties

and billing them out at extraordinary amounts. Hell, he even had the damn Air Force stay at his Scottish properties, in a news item that was chuckled over by the DC press, tra la, it's all normal!

Never mind the bucketloads of graft he gets from various lobbyists and foreign governments booking up Trump hotels and properties to garner favor with the world's most infamous deadbeat.

[crickets]

35. +1000000

[AleksS]

13. That would mean something if he hadn't also

Grifted way way way more than that on the back end.

[mnhtnbb]

14. He's probably the only president on record to have pocketed US taxpayer money for his golf trips

paid to his golf courses--to the tune of over a hundred million--as well as income at his hotels for people wanting to curry favor with his regime.

[madaboutharry]

15. That is a lie.

Herbert Hoover and John Kennedy also gave away their salaries.

Trump doesn't know anything about history.

[Cirque du So-What]

16. Sez the liar

If rump said water is wet, I’d have to see for myself.

[soothsayer]

17. Here it is. Why bother saying this? "have long said that I may release....

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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The Fake News Media, just like Election time 2016, is bringing up my Taxes & all sorts of other nonsense with illegally obtained information & only bad intent. I paid many millions of dollars in taxes but was entitled, like everyone else, to depreciation & tax credits.....


Donald J. Trump
·
Sep 28, 2020
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
.....Also, if you look at the extraordinary assets owned by me, which the Fake News hasn’t, I am extremely under leveraged - I have very little debt compared to the value of assets. Much of this information is already on file, but I have long said that I may release....

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
.....Financial Statements, from the time I announced I was going to run for President, showing all properties, assets and debts. It is a very IMPRESSIVE Statement, and also shows that I am the only President on record to give up my yearly $400,000 plus Presidential Salary!

[The Magistrate]

25. The Loser Weasels Wildy, Sir

What he is saying is that having a tax liability, which you then offset by fraudulent declarations, counts as paying that tax liability.

If you owe someone twenty dollars, and insist they give you nineteen dollars and give them back one, you have not paid the debt. You have just chiseled and weaseled.

[ProfessorGAC]

36. The TO Gave Public Statements...

...in 2016 that they had assets of $10.2 billion and LTD of $5.4 billion.
A D/E ratio of 1.125 is not "extremely underleveraged."
And 2 years ago, Moody's reassessed creditworthiness, and concluded the assets were overvalued by 20%, and the debt was at least $1.2 billion higher than claimed.
This puts us at $8 billion in assets and $6.6 billion in leverage.
This is a D/E of 4.7.
That is hitting the highly over leveraged range.
Once again, he's lying.

[soothsayer]

37. Interesting

[dalton99a]

52. +1

[Cha]

45. The FAKE president trump LIES his GD Large ASS HEAD

Off.

His biggest LIE was knowing how "Deadly" COVID was & Lying to the American People that is was "a democrat hoax for 70 days".

trump is a rabid cornered rat flinging rat shit at the wall.

[malaise]

18. All that matters is that he is effin' rattled

[H2O Man]

33. +1

[malaise]

34. Present facts, ridicule and humiliate

Mission accomplished

[H2O Man]

38. Exactly!

[bdamomma]

50. Isn't this getting ole

his pulls out his repeated bs.

[malaise]

51. Very

He's really washed up

[Klaralven]

20. Trump botches a boast about giving away his presidential salary

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/21/trump-presidential-salary-053366

[House of Roberts]

22. It's not his taxes or income that is the scandal.

It is his debt and who he owes. They are the ones who own him, and they are calling the shots, and are motivating him to put his profits ahead of the American people. Just the vig (interest) on what he owes must be keeping him scrambling to pay it ongoing.

[jayfish]

24. Balance for His Minions.

It all balances out.

[rzemanfl]

26. "...[N]early $400,000 plus..." shows what an ignorant fuck he is. n/t

[Hoyt]

27. Bet he'll take his government pension for life.

[louis-t]

29. I'm betting he wishes he had taken it.

He only did that as part of his ploy to make people think he really was a billionaire. Which he is not.

[Disaffected]

31. He is probably lying about it

which may be another reason he won't release his income tax forms.

[JI7]

40. This is what his dumbfuck supporters spew.

[Cha]

42. trump LIES like a GD filthy rug.. Nobody

should Ever believe Anything he says.. EVER.

His biggest LIE was knowing how "Deadly" COVID was & Lying to the American People that is was "a democrat hoax for 70 days".

Believe trump at our own gd PERIL.

[Hamlette]

43. it depends on how much he made from other sources. What percentage of his income is his salary?

Obama gave the $1.4M Nobel prize money to charity so if Trump gave his salary it would be a bit more than the nobel prize alone. And Obama gave hundreds of thousands more each year. So, no, Obama didn't donate his salary but he did donate about the same amount.

[tavernier]

46. It's the same old shell game

by the same old grifter. Careful where you’re not looking while he is talking.

[DeminPennswoods]

48. No salary, but plenty of income from the Secret Service

having to rent rooms at Mar-a-Lago, rent rooms and golf carts at his golf clubs, eat at his clubs and so on.

[bdamomma]

49. two words

fuck off.