Unic Press UK: United States president Donald Trump, whose annual salary is circa four hundred thousand dollars, has donated his first-quarter’s salary to the National Park Service, in line with his pre-election promise to serve the U.S. gratis.
At a press briefing on Monday, the 3rd April 2017, the press secretary Sean Spicer, said:
“… the President has spoken with Counsel and made the decision to donate his first-quarter salary, in total, to a government entity, and he has chosen this quarter to donate it to the National Park Service… So it is my pleasure, on behalf of the President of the United States, to present a check for $78,333 to the Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, and Superintendent of the Harper’s Ferry Park site, Superintendent Brandyburg.”
Trump had promised to accept no salary if elected:
