Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[dholliday]

Trump donates his yearly salary back to government agencies. He's working for free. You can see why a lot of people support him.

 

[sdk]

Such a hero. The poor lamb has nothing but emoluments to fall back on.

 

[summerisle]

Trump donates his yearly salary back to government agencies. He's working for free. You can see why a lot of people support him.

But do they know that :

 

[BlueTX]

Trump donates his yearly salary back to government agencies. He's working for free. You can see why a lot of people support him.

It's a show.

Federal Regulations prohibit donations to specific agencies of the government being accepted unless Congress specifically authorizes it. There's been no action by Congress that I am aware of permitting such donations to be accepted so his checks simply go into the General Treasury.

If "lots of people" understood the POTUS is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution for personal benefit I'd wonder how supportive they'd be regarding his forfeiture of salary?

 

[dholliday]

But do they know that :

Mostly false (or 'fake news' if you prefer):

https://www.politifact.com/punditfa...umps-travels-imposing-historic-costs-taxpaye/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-trump-travel-costs/

tho' a 2019 update from them sites would be nice.

 

[summerisle]

Mostly false (or 'fake news' if you prefer):

https://www.politifact.com/punditfa...umps-travels-imposing-historic-costs-taxpaye/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-trump-travel-costs/

tho' a 2019 update from them sites would be nice.

Yes, an update would be nice.

Here are the figures :

Trump Golf Count

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Trump Golf Count

Trump Golf Count: Tracking President Trump's golf outings so you don't have to!

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[ilikecheese]

I worry about the consequences of this consistent “journalists are the enemy of the people” rhetoric. Trump toned it down for a short while after the CNN bomb threats but he is back to doing it regularly.

He keeps mispelling Fox as Fake. Weird.

 

[Huyton Layne]

But do they know that :

 

[longers]

Twitter responses to Trump's tweets are always the same group of hardcore anti-Trump careerists who are straight in there will multiple off-topic critical posts.

This made me laugh:

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Lol, I can’t stand Trump but they do my head in as so do a few others who do the same. They just come across as grifters looking for internet fame and likes.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Trump donates his yearly salary back to government agencies. He's working for free. You can see why a lot of people support him.

If he's worth what he says he is that money is inconsequential to him and the US Budget has trillions in expenditures so it doesn't matter for that purpose either. He's donating his salary for no reason but to score points and show how "selfless" he is. Good job eating it up.

 

[dholliday]

If he's worth what he says he is that money is inconsequential to him and the US Budget has trillions in expenditures so it doesn't matter for that purpose either. He's donating his salary for no reason but to score points and show how "selfless" he is. Good job eating it up.

I'm not eating it up, his support is. And so what if he's rich, that's hardly a reason to criticise his charity. George W wasn't exactly poor either, did he donate his Pres salary?

 

[Ruairi77]

Trump donates his yearly salary back to government agencies. He's working for free. You can see why a lot of people support him.

Seeing as I pay his wages, I'd love a look at his tax return to see how that is reported.
Of course he denied writing similar checks to pay off stormy Daniels while POTUS. I wouldn't mind having a look at how that's reported too.

 

[Ruairi77]

I'm not eating it up, his support is. And so what if he's rich, that's hardly a reason to criticise his charity. George W wasn't exactly poor either, did he donate his Pres salary?

can you be sure Trump is?

 

[Ruairi77]

I'm not eating it up, his support is. And so what if he's rich, that's hardly a reason to criticise his charity. George W wasn't exactly poor either, did he donate his Pres salary?

Also his DC hotel makes far more than 400k a year on the back of him being POTUS. This, of course, is illegal.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I'm not eating it up, his support is. And so what if he's rich, that's hardly a reason to criticise his charity. George W wasn't exactly poor either, did he donate his Pres salary?

I don't know whether Bush did because he didn't feel the need to brag about it in an attempt to show how selfless he was. Instead he did his job.