President Trump donated 1st Quarter salary to Nat. Parks!

rjxj wrote:

toedtoes wrote:

Walaby wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
$78,000 is piddly for the national parks. It wouldn't even begin to do anything for ONE park, much less all of them. It would be like a $5 paycheck for your family to run your household.

Will be interesting to see if he shuts down the parks when budget come around.

That is about the most ridiculous and insane statement I have ever heard. $78,000 will do NOTHING for even a SINGLE park.

Total horshit.

Mike

I think what 2gypsies was saying is that $78,000 is not going to do anything for the running of the parks. It would allow for a one-time upgrade/repair/etc., but in the long run the parks will still be in the same situation as they are now.

Maybe he should have donated it to build more drones so he could kill more women and children like the last guy. Yeah yeah yeah that's the ticket :)

My comment had nothing to do with politics. The point is that other presidents have declined to accept a salary (George Washington) or donated it to charity (Herbert Hoover, JFK). In addition, Obama donated his Nobel prize money to charity ($1.4 million).

In reality, a president cannot refuse his/her salary. Therefore, when you are as rich as Trump, Hoover, JFK, etc., you either take the salary (and the public sees you as greedy because you didn't refuse it) or you donate it. Had he NOT donated it, Trump would have looked bad, especially after he said he would refuse a salary if elected (obviously not realizing that he would not be legally able to refuse it).

Back on the OP topic, while donating is a good thing, it isn't a solution to a lack of funding. It's a patch. Whether his support of NPS is real or not will be determined when the budget is passed.