WagnerPaiva said:
JWeinCom said:
You are following an obviously bullshit report. Hence, you are spreading bullshit.
The articles mentioned in the video are not claiming this is evil. They are explaining why it is better if he does accept the salary. I asked you for examples of anyone trying to make this sound evil, and you did not provide any.
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Here is some of the passive-agressive reports I could found. Dice himself listed some ot the worst ones:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-salary-george-washington-214458
http://time.com/4570858/donald-trump-salary-president-history/
http://www.newser.com/story/234115/heres-whats-wrong-with-donald-trumps-1-salary-idea.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-does-the-us-president-get-paid-2016-11
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/11/14/trump-says-no-to-presidential-salary-could-you-do-the-same-cut-your-tax-bill/#4d19b3234017
And that, my good man, is a constant: spinning what he does as evil, and it is disgusting.
Now the new thing is to try to spin his opinion on gay marriage as evil.
He said he is "fine" with it, which is great, what else could we ask for? Gays can marry and everyone is happy. But once again the SJW are trying to make the dude look evil:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-same-sex-marriage_us_5829c604e4b02d21bbc97d2a
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-lgbt-trump-bannon-20161114-story.html
They say "don´t buy it" or "his opinions mean little".
Gay marriage is a important issue, it is done, let them marry, that is what he said. There is no spinning around it, the man have good intentions and the SJWs have not.
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I clicked on one of your links at random. Here is what it said.
Last year, then-Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Drumpf declared he would forego a presidential salary if elected.
"I won't take even one dollar. I'm totally giving up my salary if I become president," Drumpf said in a video posted to his Twitter account.
Most recently the president-elect told "60 Minutes" that he would take a $1 salary because the law required him to.
According to Title 3 of the US Code, the US President "shall earn" a salary of $400,000, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 nontaxable travel account, and $19,000 for entertainment.
Like most employees, the president receives benefits in addition to a salary. Unlike most employees, though, these benefits include free transportation in the presidential limousine, Marine One, and Air Force One and free housing in the White House.
Another bonus: At the end of their terms, presidents are still on government payroll, which includes an annual pension of about $200,000, healthcare, paid official travel, and an office.
Of course, if Drumpf really doesn't want the $400,000 a year, he could always donate it to charity like his predecessors John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover did.
But, as even the first president, George Washington, learned the hard way, you can't completely forgo a salary if you're the leader of the free world.
Washington earned $25,000 a year when he came into office in 1789. That may not sound like much, but to put Washington's compensation into perspective, $25,000 in 1913 — the oldest year the inflation calculator accounts for — is equivalent to about $600,000 today.
As Time recently reported, Washington didn't want to take a salary either.
"I must decline as inapplicable to myself, any share in the personal emoluments, which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the Executive Department;" he said during his inaugural address, "and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the Station in which I am placed, may, during my continuance in it, be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require."
But the lawmakers at the time wouldn't hear of it, saying that the constitution required Washington to receive compensation, as not taking a salary would open the president up to bribery and corruption.
Between 1789 and today, there have been five pay raises for US presidents, the most recent one coming in 2001, when Congress doubled the presidential salary from $200,000 to $400,000.
That salary alone is nearly enough to put the president in the top 1% of earners.
That's the full text of it. Please explain to me what part of this shows that they are trying to make Trump sound evil.