President without a salary: how Donald Trump earned $2.4 billion in four years in the White House

In April 2017, White House press secretary Sean Spicer took to the podium in the White House briefing room and announced that the American president was donating his first quarter salary to the National Park Service. With a serious expression on his face, Spicer pulled out a huge check with a sweeping signature. It was the first of a list of checks that Donald Trump signed during his term in office, giving away his $400,000 in salary in exchange for a good media image.

Trump’s real money came not from the state salary, but from the business with which he did not want to part. An analysis of the documents, some of which only became public in recent weeks, shows exactly how much Trump’s business has brought him during his time in Washington. A good look at real estate documents, as well as financial and debt documents, it becomes clear that in the period from January 2017 to December 2020, Trump’s revenues amounted to $2.4 billion.