No vacation; $1 salary for Trump
posted on Nov 14, 2016 9:23AM
Republican president-elect Donald Trump has said he will not accept a salary for being president. He stood by his promise to reject the presidential salary. Trump said at a September 17, 2015, event in Rochester, New Hampshire: 'The first thing I'm going to do is tell you that if I'm elected president, I'm accepting no salary, okay? That's not a big deal for me.' Donald Trump has said he would take $1 as his salary a year and not the $400,000 that comes with the US president's job and will refrain from going on any vacation. "I think I have to by law take $1, so I'll take $1 a year. But I don't even know what it is," Mr Trump said. Mr Trump said he did not know what the salary of a US President is and also said he would not take any vacation. "We have so much work. There's so much work to be done. And I want to get it done for the people," he said. Trump signaled that he wanted to bring the people together, urging both the protesters and his supporters to stop abusing each other.