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Trump donates 2019 salary to USDA, surgeon general
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H., Aug. 15, 2019.(AP)
President Donald Trump continues to maintain his campaign promise to donate his $400,000 annual White House salary with U.S. government agencies.
In August, a White House spokesman announced that Trump donated $100,000, his second-quarter salary, to the U.S. Surgeon General's office.
"I donate 100% of my President's salary, $400,000, back to our Country, and feel very good about it!" Trump tweeted Aug. 16.
His first-quarter salary in 2019 went to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Trump donated his third quarter salary for 2018 to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Trump's older brother Fred Jr. died after struggling from alcoholism in 1981.
The president donated his 2018 fourth quarter salary to the Department of Homeland Security and has donated to various federal entities during his time in office, including the National Park Service, the Department of Education and the Veterans Administration.
This pledge remains Promise Kept.
Katie Sanders contributed to this report.
Our Sources
Agri-Pulse, Trump to donate Q1 salary to USDA, May, 16, 2019
Email exchange with Judd Deere, White House spokesperson, July 29, 2019
PolitiFact, How bad off will soybean farmers be this year?, Oct. 29, 2018
The White House, Remarks by President Trump on Supporting America's Farmers and Ranchers, May 23, 2019
Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute, Compensation of the President, accessed Aug. 1, 2019
Associated Press News, Trump donates $100,000 from salary to alcoholism research, Jan. 25, 2019
Tweet from Donald J. Trump, March 18, 2019