US President to donate his salary to Covid-19 relief effort
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced on Friday US President Donal Trump would donate his salary to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this quarter. As Time newspaper reported, the President’s quarterly salary of $100,000 will go to HHS “to develop new therapies for treating and preventing COVID-19 so that we can safely reopen.”
In the announcement, McEnany held up what appears to have been a real check signed by Trump, with banking information, including the routing number and bank account number.
“I give, and have given from the beginning, my entire yearly salary, $400,000 to $450,000, back to our government,” Trump himself said on Twitter. “Last check to HHS COVID[-19] relief. My great honor.”