Forbes says that Trump is worth $2.4 billion dollars. Call us skeptical.

Trump did promise to donate his salary as president, many of the MAGAs believed this proved that Trump was one very rich man. The president’s annual salary is $400,000. It can be a significant amount of money to a president like Bill Clinton, who had worked government jobs just about his entire life, or it can be near nothing, as it was for George W. Bush and even Barack Obama, who had made quite a bit on his books prior to becoming president and everyone knew that Obama would make more money as an ex-president than any in history. Such promise allows a guy to access some money ahead of time in loans. (Obama is purportedly worth somewhere around $75 million and he’s just getting going). But Trump was supposed to be our first “billionaire” president and was even going to fund his own campaign (Remember that? The MAGAs don’t.)

It turns out, Trump made a fortune off being president, having the Secret Service stay at his clubs, rent carts, the hotel down the street was the hotspot for people trying to influence Trump, and the money donated to his campaign often found a way out of the campaign to pay legal bills and into other dark corners. The $400,000 “donation” was a joke to everyone but the MAGAs. So it was used as advertising and cheap advertising at that.

But now that Trump isn’t running for anything and is untouchable – as far as the MAGAs are concerned, he’s willing to take the government’s pension, having already taken in $65,600 since being out of office. That might be a good idea, even for a billionaire. After all, that might cover one week’s legal bills. Might.

According to Business Insider:

Through May 14, Trump had received $65,600 from a GSA fund that pays for former presidents’ pensions, the spokesperson said. Trump’s net worth is estimated at $2.4 billion, according to Forbes. Since receiving the taxpayer-funded payments, it’s unclear what Trump has done with the money — kept it, donated it, or something else. Trump spokesman Jason Miller did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the former president’s pension payments. The US Constitution requires presidents to receive a salary while in office but does not require former presidents to take a pension.

If Trump donated the pension money he would have made a commercial about it. (We cannot confirm that he kept his pension, we’re speculating about a guy who stole from his own charity). We suspect that Miller’s delayed response is all one needs to know. Trump almost surely kept it, just like he keeps every little extra bit he can get, from every direction. It is what he does and has always done. The “donation” before was… as we said, a cheap commercial, sure to make him more.

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Jason
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