- Donald Trump earned at least $ 1.6 billion during his single term as president of the United States.
- He could have earned up to $ 1.79 billion, according to financial disclosures.
- Much of the revenue came from Mar-a-Lago, its DC hotel and its American golf courses.
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Donald Trump may have donated his $ 400,000 salary as president, but that represented only a tenth of one percent of the money he earned as the most powerful man in the world.
During his four-year term, Trump reported earning between $ 1.6 and $ 1.79 billion, with about $ 620 million coming from the resort Mar-a-Lago, his hotel in the nation’s capital and three from golf courses in the United States.
As Insider reported earlier, despite earning hundreds of millions of dollars each year, Trump paid only $ 750 in federal income taxes in his first year in office.
This is according to a review of the ex-president’s financial disclosures by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a liberal watchdog group that argued that Trump’s salary donation “was just a fig leaf to cover up four years of corruption. brazen “.
CREW found that the pandemic caused the Trump Hotel’s revenue to drop in Washington, DC – from $ 40 million in 2019 to $ 15 million the following year – but not in Mar-a-Lago, which the former president called “Southern White House.”
Overall, however, Trump looks less wealthy today than he did when he took office. In the fall of 2020, Forbes said the former president was now America’s 352nd richest person – up from 275 the previous year, reflecting a drop in net worth from $ 3.1 billion to $ 2.5 billion.
Struggling with debt, the former head of state deposited millions of dollars in donations for the 2020 campaign to the Trump Organization, according to a Forbs report.