evidence: Trump Kept His Promise: Donated All His $1.6M Salary To Federal Agencies [...] Donald Trump kept his promise to donate his salary as president, reports say. Here’s how he donated the paychecks he received during his four-year term at the White House. As president, Trump received an annual salary of $400,000. As presidents are not legally allowed to decline their salary, he wrote checks equal to a quarter of his annual salary every quarter to various government agencies.