We reached out to Trump’s spokesman to find out the details. We’ll update the piece if and when they provide any new information on the third and fourth quarter donations.
In
2017, President Trump gave:
Q1:
$78,333 to the Department of Interior’s National Park Service (NPS) for maintenance backlog at historic battlefields.
Specifically, the donation went to restore the Newcomer House on the Antietam battlefield and for the replacement of its deteriorated rail fencing.
Q2:
$100,000 to the Department of Education to host a free, two-week space camp for 30 low-income, middle school girls. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos received a $100,000 check in 2017, and
announced a year later that the President’s donation had doubled the space camp’s participants.
Q3:
$100,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for “the planning and design of a large-scale public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.”
Q4:
$100,000 to the Department of Transportation to support its programs to “rebuild and modernize our crumbling infrastructure.”
In
2018, President Trump gave:
Q1:
$100,000 to the Veteran’s Administration for “caregiver support in the form of mental health and peer support programs, financial aid, education training, and research.”
Q2:
$100,000 to the Small Business Administration earmarked for a seven-month training program tailored for veteran entrepreneurs.
Q3:
$100,000 to the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Trump’s brother
died of alcoholism-related causes at the age of 43.
Q4:
$100,000 to the Department of Homeland Security. Trump tweeted, “While the press doesn’t like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security. If I didn’t do it there would be hell to pay from the FAKE NEWS MEDIA!”
In
2019, President Trump gave:
Q1:
$100,000 to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be “used for outreach programs that benefit farmers[.]”
Q2:
$100,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Surgeon General. The President tweeted, “I donate 100% of my President’s salary, $400,000, back to our Country, and feel very good about it!”
Q3:
$100,000 to the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to “the ongoing fight against the opioid crisis.”
Q4:
$100,000 to HHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to “confront, contain, and combat #Coronavirus[.]”
In
2020, President Trump gave:
Q1:
$100,000 to HHS to “develop new therapies for treating and preventing COVID-19 so that we can safely reopen.”
Q2:
$100,000 to the NPS in July 2020 to help pay for repairs on national monuments. “I promised YOU I would not take a dime of salary as your President,” Trump tweeted. “I donate the entire $400,000! It is my honor to give $100,000 to @NatlParkService to help repair and restore our GREAT National Monuments. So important to our American History! Thank You!!”
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