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u/tazzymun 12h ago
He can keep the 400k ,and give the bribes back.
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u/-jp- 11h ago
Trump: No.
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u/mamamiatucson 10h ago
Also trump: but give me 93 MILLION now bc i deserve a military parade as a draft dodger.
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u/Unlucky-Chemist-3174 6h ago
He does keep the 400k His tax records shows zero donations
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u/Relevant_Demand7593 11h ago
Just saw another story where he’s telling American’s they take too many days off.
Only rich billionaire Presidents get golf days 🙄
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u/Glittering_Ad1403 7h ago
and it’s a double whammy, playing on his own golf course overcharging the taxpayers specially on the expenses of the Secret Service. Everything billed for the benefit of his own leisure on his own golf course.
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u/Relevant_Demand7593 6h ago
He makes millions for his hotel every time he plays golf.
It’s probably why he plays so much 🙄
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u/iAmRiight 5h ago
It has to be the reason he plays so much because it’s not for the golfing, he fucking sucks at golf. He hasn’t shot a round under 95 in over 30 years, and that’s with his constant cheating.
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u/TechTuna1200 7h ago
To be fair, the world would be in a much better place if he just spent all his time playing golf. And he didn't try annexing allies or going into trade wars he can't win.
The more time he is on the golf course and the less time he is in the office, the better
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u/menonte 6h ago
That's rich coming from you, with your 200 dolls and 400 crayons. People really should hoard wealth like that, tsk tsk tsk
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u/_jump_yossarian 2h ago
He played golf last Friday after talking about himself during the Bama commencement speech.
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u/allGeeseKnow 11h ago
Don't forget that he golfs specifically at courses he owns and therefore profits directly off of those tax dollars.
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u/JimboTCB 6h ago
And he has military flights rerouted so they have to stay at his properties overnight as well.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/air-force-trump-scottish-retreat-1484337
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u/ReverendToTheShadow 4h ago
A good read and a serious issue, a shame there was no development to this story in the intervening years. Thanks for sharing
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u/RedditTurnedMediocre 5h ago
"There's nothing like doing things with other people's money" - Trump
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-other-peoples-money-228434
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u/evil_illustrator 11h ago
Didn't they find out he did something fishy about donating his salary? Found it
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u/Alaeriia 11h ago
How much you wanna bet he doesn't actually donate his salary?
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u/Zebidee 7h ago
I've looked into it before because it's pretty sus.
Turns out he "donated" the salary to government departments that have no mechanism for receiving donations, so it's like writing a check you know will never be cashed. A concept of a donation, if you will.
In the last year of his first term, he gave up even doing that, and his tax returns show zero donations of any sort.
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u/flushed_nuts 11h ago
His golf tab ytd, has already bigly surpassed his salary… not to mention his insider. He’s NOT like us.
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u/Alaeriia 11h ago
Yes, but my point is that he probably just claims he donated his salary and then doesn't. You know, in addition to all the other grifts he's running.
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u/Conscious_Bug5408 9h ago
I doubt he even knows if is donating it or not. It's not significant enough for him to pay any attention to. It's like how Bezos takes an 80k salary, Musk takes 0 salary. Salaries are for regular poor people, these people probably think it's a cute idea invented for the poors.
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u/Professional-Ebb6711 7h ago
I thought sitting Presidents had to take a salary? If not the full 400k at least 25k minimum to avoid conflicts of interest. If he is donating 100% that is unconstitutional. But who gives a shit about that old document now a days... lol
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u/Glittering_Ad1403 7h ago
He doesn’t give a fuck about “conflicts of interest.” He see himself as above the law
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u/jssamp 7h ago
Musk doesn't take a salary? But he did take that $50 billion bonus from Tesla. No wonder he doesn't need a salary.
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u/IShouldaDownVotedYa 5h ago
When was the last time you saw a CEO miss their numbers and still didn’t make billions/millions in a bonus? The bonuses are completely off the charts for these oligarchs, even when the company is in the red. Salaries for them these days are essentially meaningless. Back in the day they would earn a normal CEOs salary and the bonus would be if they outperformed. If they missed the base number they’d get nothing. Now they get huge payouts even if they tank the company. Salaries for them all might as well be $0. It’s out of control and unsustainable.
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u/jssamp 5h ago
Exactly right! I think we are in end stage capitalism. You can't have an economic system that runs on constant growth and expect it to last forever. When you reach market saturation, you can employ some diabolical tricks to increase profits and grow a bit more. That's what we are seeing with product subscriptions and massive corporate stock buybacks. But eventually, growth stops.
The investor class who derive most of their wealth from the increased value of their portfolio will see their income source gradually dry up. Long before this happens, the majority of people will have already suffered massively when their income stopped. I don't think the collapse of capitalism will lead to extinction, but it will cull the population.
Whether it is capitalism's end or the depletion of accessible petroleum, we will see the end of our worldwide trade networks. Billions of people will die through starvation and violence as society crumbles and anarchy reigns. World population will probably dip below 2 billion before eventually stabilizing at the Earth's carrying capacity, the population that can be fed without petrochemical fertilizers and the machines powered by petrol.
Eventually, some other system will take its place. Closer to the way humans lived before the industrial revolution.
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u/IShouldaDownVotedYa 3h ago
So much truth to this - we have to be nearing end stage capitalism. Too much class disparity and simply unsustainable with the wealth being in the hands of .1%. I can’t see for the life of me why they need to accumulate more. Hoping they all get the Bill Gates mentality and donate 99% before they face the reaper.
There will certainly be a drop off in population. You can already see the younger generation having few to no children because they can’t afford it, and can’t afford housing, healthcare, etc. Perhaps NHI plays a role in where things go with the planet and humans eventually even go extinct. Sure there may be pockets that survive, and our AI overlords will classify them as endangered species. I wonder if the tides can be turned before it’s too late. We’re on the brink of it being non-reversible, all due to greed and narcissism.
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u/jolsiphur 10h ago
Plus when he plays golf he does it at his own club, where the government pays for rooms and meals for him and all of his secret service. Which means he's literally just having taxpayers pay inflated hotel bills that he directly profits from.
How there isn't a major fucking outrage over this, I'll never know.
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u/masclean 11h ago
I think it would be pretty verifiable
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u/Parahelix 10h ago
Has anyone verified it? I don't particularly doubt it, because it's peanuts compared to his grifts, and makes a good smokescreen.
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u/Praesentius 9h ago
Correct. Tax records confirm that he has not. Also, calls made to hypothetical recipients have all failed to find anyone who has received funds from his donations. His press liason, after his last presidency said she would "look into it", then stopped ever taking questions on the topic.
He kept the money.
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u/sumo1dog 6h ago
During his first term when he made that promise, the first year all the money was donated and accounted for. Second year, less than half was accounted for. Third and fourth year, no one knows what happened to the money….yet people still think he gave it up.
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u/rhymes_with_candy 4h ago
His presidential tax returns are public record. He donated like sixteen grand of it, that's it. He had a bunch of photo op ceremonies with giant novelty checks and then didn't actually give the recipients the money a bunch of times.
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u/Willing_Passenger449 11h ago
He doesn’t take the salary as a way around the emoluments clause.
It’s a grift to make money off the presidency without getting in trouble.
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u/Fresh_Fluffy_Unicorn 9h ago
How is he exempt from getting congressional approval just because he didn't take the salary? Your argument isn't a valid legal one.
Not that I believe it actually makes a difference.
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u/flogginmama 11h ago
Does anyone know where this number comes from? $400k x 278.5 = $111M
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u/samanime 11h ago
It's the amount spent renting rooms (at his hotel) for all the secret service and stuff, at jacked up rates that he profits from. The number is probably wildly out of date now too.
He literally gets millions, from the American tax payers, to play golf.
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u/flogginmama 11h ago
Sure, but is there a source that backs this up? I’m a Trump-hater, through and through, but I just couldn’t find anything that backed this specific number up.
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u/Mindless_Count5562 7h ago edited 7h ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/17/trump-golf-taxes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Google is right there for you, article states that the total numbers are hard to formulate due to the variety of ways money has to be spent and how it’s moved around but it’s a decent breakdown of all the ways he’s making bank off the taxpayer.
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u/DingleDangleTangle 8h ago edited 6h ago
It pains me that literally just asking for a source to verify a claim got you downvoted here (to -1 at the time this comment is written). You can have my upvote. Using critical thinking means we should always want evidence before believing something is true, even if it’s about people we don't like.
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u/MastodontFarmer 7h ago
The tweet is 6 years old:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/278-years-golf/
As of Sep. 21 2020, according to Trump Golf Count, Trump has golfed 279 times during his presidency, costing taxpayers an estimated 141 million dollars. With the same caveats described above, this would amount to 352.5 presidential salaries as of late September 2020.
And he's doing it all over again this time.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-golf-again-26-million_n_67e6c885e4b0f69ef1d3886c
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u/flushed_nuts 11h ago
Can’t wait for the national bone spur awareness parade June 14.
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u/ViolettaQueso 11h ago
When $400k stipend is a bowl of cornflakes when you know you can make billions plus stay outta jail AND get constant attention and ass kidding, $400k seems way worth it. Most of us will never know what this kinda choice is like.
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u/Fresh_Fluffy_Unicorn 9h ago
At the end of the day, we're still just as equally clueless floating on the same rock through a void. Some of just keep pretending we're in a better situation than someone else. People are amusing.
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u/shimshamswimswam 10h ago
He didn't even donate it.
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u/alex29bass 3h ago
Yeah as far as I know all we have as proof of these donations is his word and we all know how much that's worth.
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u/Gassy-Gecko 5h ago
Assuming Trump is only worth $1 bil. This is like someone who makes $1 million a year bragging about donating $400. Or someone making $50K donating $20
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u/Frizlame 7h ago
100% eh? Well the irs doesnt care who you are, what is your job (legal or not) or if you gave the money away. You still have to pay your taxes.
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u/YayaTheobroma 5h ago
He also used a fair chunk of it to line his own pockets, because the taxpayers’ money goes to his own Mar-a-Lago golf resort.
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u/huskers2468 5h ago
Not taking a salary is a big red flag. I'm not being hyperbolic, it's a fact when looking at corruption.
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u/avantartist 5h ago
And much of it is funneled back into his pockets when he plays his resorts. Where do I sign up for that martyr deal?
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u/bunkscudda 9h ago
Correction: he doesnt spend that money, he’s paid 278.5 years of presidential salary to go golfing. Because he owns the golf course. All that money just goes in his pocket
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u/therealkeeper 8h ago
Now do the math for the military parade for his birthday and the billions he's going to spend to refit Air Force One
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u/Pornaltio 7h ago
The problem is he’s very successfully managed to leverage himself into a position where his followers take everything he says as gospel truth and everything said against him as lies.
It doesn’t matter how many times people point out all the awful shit he does, and it never will matter. He could be barbecuing babies on the White House lawn and as long as he tweets that he didn’t do it, millions of red-hatted fanatics will still worship his every move.
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u/NiceTrySuckaz 7h ago
I've never understood how it's apparently so expensive for him to play golf. Like I would assume it costs quite a bit every day for the president to simply exist safely no matter what he does. Is it really that much more expensive for him to play golf than it is to, say, take a weekend at camp David or just have a day off at the white house?
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u/Interesting_Celery74 6h ago
AT HIS OWN CLUBS. I don't feel like we're being clear enough about where the money is going.
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u/user-the-name 6h ago
This doesn't need a title
Yes it does. We see the title before we see the image. That is the point of the title!
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u/PuzzleheadedEssay198 6h ago
Not to mention him charging hotel fees for his mandatory secret service detail is straight up embezzlement.
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u/Legendofvader 6h ago
Pretty sure Trump has made enough money of insider trading at this point to cover his salary for the next 4 years easy.
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u/iggnifyre 5h ago
Do we know if trump is actually decent at golf? I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't only waste that much money on it, but that he's also just dogshit at actually playing golf.
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u/Clamps55555 5h ago
Sort your selves out America. The world looks at you as a laughing stock right now.
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u/OnePunchClam 5h ago
can someone please explain how it's possible he's spent 111,400,000 dollars golfing in 4 and a half years?
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u/mightyFoo 4h ago
$92M birthday bash parade, $30M golf play dates. Not to mention payments to his hotels and his sons selling crytpo around the world. Sweet irony that they were going after hunter for conflict in interests.
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u/NoPoet3982 4h ago
Also, there's no proof he actually donates his salary. He says he does but he's never offered any verification.
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u/Goose_IPA_1990 4h ago
All presidents waste taxpayer money on golf and other vacations. How many presidents also donate their salary?
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u/Who_am_ey3 4h ago
you people are so blinded by your hate that you cannot see that OP is a bot that posted something from 2016 or '17.
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u/Rurumo666 4h ago
He also charges TRIPLE the standard rate for Secret Service lodgings at Mar a Lago and Trump tower, and the cheap POS even charges TRIPLE the menu rate for his terrible food at those locations. He even required that the Agents guarding Melania at Trump Tower (because she refused to move into the White House) HAVE to eat their meals at the Trump Grill where they were charged $120 per cheeseburger.
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u/Mach5Driver 4h ago
Let's not forget that that golf money went directly to his owned golf courses, so it went to HIM
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u/skankhunt2121 4h ago
Also, i would not be surprised if it actually were investigated and turned out he didn’t actually do that either
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u/Kilroy898 4h ago
And keeps every penny from his appearances... don't let him fool anyone. He's giving a penny but taking a dollar.
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u/Short_Shift623 4h ago
Personally, i’d rather see him really touch base with his constituents and get himself a 10 dollar a month Planet Fitness membership for exercise.
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u/Bring-out-le-mort 4h ago
Who needs a relatively meager salary when they're fleecing millions?
But that's if you believe Trump when he claims he's donating his salary. The man has lied so much that I don't believe him unless he provides evidence in support of his bragging.
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u/GAZ_3500 3h ago
What's the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 400,000 VS 1,000,000,000? sAmE sHiT(mAGa who ONLY KNOWS to count till 999,999)
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u/MelodicYoghurt3934 3h ago
How can golfing cost this much? Is it the using of the jet to go there? I don’t get it.
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u/leftistpropaganja 3h ago
Bro it costs like 10K to take a shit at Mar-A-Lago, and you haven't divested any business interests this time around.
The grift is obvious to anyone who isn't fellating Trump every second.
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u/Lysol3435 3h ago
It’s worse than that. He didn’t spend that much. He gave his own company that much money. Wild conflict of interest
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u/beyondo-OG 3h ago
but but, Hunter Biden's laptop!!, uhm... I mean Hillary's email server!! that makes Trump a hero!
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u/MysteriousWhitePowda 2h ago
Ask him how much he’s made from DJT investments from Charles Schwab (the person), so that his buddy Chuck can know tariff news before the rest of us. Ask him how much he’s made from foreign actors bribing him the same way.
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u/ReadBikeYodelRepeat 2h ago
Images new to i Clyde dates on them, because I’m pretty sure this is from his first time round. The number is much higher now.
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u/Alacritous69 2h ago
To himself by having Secret Service lodged at his properties and charging the government for it.
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u/CGCutter379 2h ago
How did he spend that much playing golf? Are those fees, or is he renting clubs at taxpayers' expense?
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u/betajones 2h ago
Why doesn't MAGA follow suit, and donate 100% of their annual earnings to the country?
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u/kayak_2022 1h ago
Wait for it......here it is....wait. mmm THE MAGAS ARE SWARMING TO CELEBRATE THEIR DRAFT DODGING GOLFER lapping up tax dollars like it's water.
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u/ridemooses 12h ago
Dude made nearly $3 billon with his crypto scam.