US President-elect Donald Trump has said he would take $1 as his
salary a year and not the $400,000 that comes with the US president’s
job and will refrain from going on any vacation.
Asked whether he was going to the president’s salary, 70-year-old
Trump said, “No, I’m not gonna take the salary. I’m not taking it,”
confirming a promise he made in a campaign video in September. “I think I
have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year. But I don’t even know
what it is,” Trump told CBS’s “60 Minute” in an interview aired
yesterday.
Trump said he did not know what the salary of a US President is and also said he would not take any vacation.
“We have so much work. There’s so much work to be done. And I want to get it done for the people,” he said.
“I want to get it done. We’re lowering taxes, we’re taking care of
health care. I mean, there’s just so much to be done. So I don’t think
we’ll be very big on vacations, no,” Trump said, ruling out a vacation
for himself.
Trump defeated his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s
presidential vote, in a result which shocked many who had expected her
to win following favourable opinion polls.