{"id":33525,"date":"2016-11-14T12:49:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=33525"},"modified":"2016-11-14T12:49:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:49:24","slug":"just-1-salary-no-vacation-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/just-1-salary-no-vacation-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Just $1 salary & no vacation for Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he was going to the president’s salary, the 70-year-old 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.<\/p>\n

“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,” Mr Trump told CBS’s “60 Minute” in an interview aired yesterday.<\/p>\n

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Mr 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

So I don’t think we’ll be very big on vacations, no,” Mr Trump said, ruling out a vacation for himself.<\/p>\n

Mr 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, the 70-year-old said, “No, I’m not gonna take the salary.I’m not taking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[14713,14711,14714,2638,421,1233,14712],"class_list":["post-33525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-president-salary","tag-president-elect-donald-trump","tag-salary","tag-september","tag-trump","tag-us","tag-us-president-job"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Just-1-salary-no-vacation-for-Donald-Trump.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}