{"id":302029,"date":"2017-04-03T22:50:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T21:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/critics-fume-after-trump-donates-salary-to-national-park-service\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T22:50:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T21:50:22","slug":"critics-fume-after-trump-donates-salary-to-national-park-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/critics-fume-after-trump-donates-salary-to-national-park-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics fume after Trump donates salary to National Park Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump has donated over $78,000 \u2013 his entire first-quarter salary \u2013 to the National Park Service, leaving his critics spluttering about broken promises and the cost of security for his residences in New York and Florida.<\/p>\n

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Trump, who was a billionaire real-estate tycoon before running for president, initially tried to decline a salary altogether, but it turned out he was legally required to take one. He then said he would donate all of it to a charity, and even invited reporters to give suggestions.<\/p>\n

On Monday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters that \u201cevery penny\u201d<\/em> Trump was paid between January 20 and the end of March will be handed over to the NPS.<\/p>\n

Spicer presented a check for $78,333.32 to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Harpers Ferry National Historic Park Superintendent Tyrone Brandyburg.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Trump\u2019s new Interior Secretary rides to work in cowboy hat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Center for American Progress, founded by prominent Democratic campaigner John Podesta, quickly blasted the donation as a drop in the proverbial bucket.<\/p>\n

Other Democrats estimated the amount would cover just over 12 hours of security for Trump\u2019s New York residence, where First Lady Melania Trump has remained since the inauguration, or the Trump resort in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, where the president prefers to spend his weekends.<\/p>\n

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Trump is donating his “78k check” to NPS.<\/p>\n

78k is also what US taxpayers pay for 12.5 hrs of security for Melania living in NY & not the WH.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) April 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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If Trump donates his salary for the entire 4 years it will be nearly $1 million. Cost of keeping Melania in NY for 3 days is $1.2 million.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Millennial Democrats (@Millennial_Dems) April 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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One of the \u201calternative\u201d<\/em> NPS Twitter accounts, launched after Trump\u2019s inauguration, described the donation as a \u201cdamned insult\u201d<\/em> and a rude gesture to all \u201calt\u201d<\/em> accounts purportedly set up by staff that worked under Trump\u2019s predecessor Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

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Trump donating $87K to @NatlParkService<\/a> while taking $3Million golf weekends is a damned insult.<\/p>\n

\u2014 AltAltNPS (@realAltAltNPS) April 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Make no mistake about it, Trump picked the @NatlParkService<\/a> as a flip of the bird to the alt Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n

\u2014 AltAltNPS (@realAltAltNPS) April 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Trump’s National Park Service donation is an insult to the NPS. What’s next, a donation to PBS? Or Trump’s local mosque? Unbelievable.<\/p>\n

\u2014 ThisLandisOurLand (@ThisLandisOurs) April 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The president\u2019s supporters, however, delighted in the gesture\u00a0\u2013 and the effects it had on the opposition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published time: 3 Apr, 2017 21:12 President Donald Trump has donated over $78,000 \u2013 his entire first-quarter salary \u2013 to the National Park Service, leaving his critics spluttering about broken promises and the cost of security for his residences in New York and Florida. Trump, who was a billionaire real-estate tycoon before running for president, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-302029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}