White House announces the President will be donating USD $100 000 of his annual $400 000 salary to help fight the virus while the other $300 000 will be donated to other causes.
The billionaire US President has been working without pay since he took over office. Trump says he will earn the mandatory $1 by law since the law prohibits zero dollar wage but will channel all his salary to charitable courses in US
Trump, who was already wealthy from his business dealings before he was elected president, has opted to forego a salary during his administration and has instead donated it to various causes.
This will mark the second quarter that Trump has put the money toward efforts to overcome the coronavirus. In March, then-Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said Trump was donating his salary from the final quarter of 2019 to HHS, also for the department’s work on COVID-19.
At that time, the virus had killed just six Americans. As of Friday, more than 95,000 people in the U.S. had died from the coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Trump also donated portions of his salary last year to the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General.
He becomes only the second US President to serve his nation for without a paycheck. George Washington was the first.
Source: Fox News