While I have not always agreed with our President Donald Trump. After college, I worked only 6-7 yrs as an employee. I often “bucked the system” as an employee. Six years after college I decided to open my own community pharmacy, and before I retired years later, I had started a handful of businesses, not everyone was a success, but most were.
As being an entrepreneur myself, I have to respect President Trump for all his accomplishments both personally and for our country. Those people who have never own/ran a business. They have little/no idea of what is involved and the meaning contained by the saying “signing the front of a paycheck”.
Our country should be considered a business, and unfortunately most the people that we elected to run our country – at least during my lifetime – the majority seemed to be more interested in their own personal success and the POWER that they can wield.
I & “WE” can hope that President Trump can use his skills as a entrepreneur to lower our national debt, lower our tax rates and essentially put more MONEY in all our pockets.
Donald Trump comes to office as a “lame duck” because he can’t run for another term, so he doesn’t has to worry about getting re-elected and have to concede on his goals to cull political favor.
I heard on TV today that someone, some group is already filing lawsuits against a couple of President Trumps proposed programs. I am sure there will be more and others who are planting “landmines” that are designed to cause President Trump and our country to FAIL.
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Do you really believe that Donald J. Trump isn’t interested in having as much POWER as possible???
entrepreneurs have an ingrained need to build businesses. Trump has joined 4 other of our Presidents that has/will donate their salaries to charities.
The Presidential salary is $400,000/yr. So during his last 4 yr term and the coming 4 yr term – he will donate 3.2 million to charity.
I don’t know many people who think the last 4 yrs were a huge success – 21% inflation, interest on house loans nearly DOUBLED. – 10s of millions of illegal immigrants flowing across our borders. 100,000K+ dying from illegal fentanyl from China & Mex cartels. etc…etc…etc
According to this some members of Congress promised to donate their salaries during a government shutdown – if the government had a shutdown.
According to the Washington Post’s research, nearly 150 lawmakers out of 237 (or 244) who made the promise during the 2013 government shutdown either donated their salaries to charity, refused to accept them until the government reopened, or returned them to the Treasury[3]. Specifically, at least 116 of the 244 lawmakers who pledged to return part of their pay donated more than $494,500 to charity[7]. It’s important to note that this data is from the 2013 government shutdown, and the exact number may have changed since then.
More recently, some members of Congress continue to make similar pledges. For example, in September 2023, Congressman Vern Buchanan announced that he would refuse to accept his Congressional salary in the event of a government shutdown and donate the money to charity[6]. However, comprehensive data on the current number of members donating their salaries is not available in the provided search results.
Citations:
[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/donor-demographics
[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/us-house-of-representatives/summary?id=D000000412
[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/majority-congresspeople-who-promised-donate-or-withhold-their-salaries-actually-did-it/358654/
[4] https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-recipients
[5] https://www.gao.gov/products/b-206396.2
[6] https://buchanan.house.gov/2023/9/with-potential-shutdown-looming-buchanan-announces-he-will-refuse-to-accept-congressional-salary-donate-money-to-charity
[7] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-government-shutdown-dozens-of-lawmakers-gave-to-charity/2014/02/27/a21aa768-9b35-11e3-ad71-e03637a299c0_story.html
[8] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL30064
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaries_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress
The Trump organization has: The Trump Organization has 22,450 employees[1][4][9]. This figure represents the total number of employees across all of Donald Trump’s business ventures and investments, which are held under The Trump Organization as a conglomerate[7].
Citations:
[1] https://www.zippia.com/the-trump-organization-careers-41590/demographics/
[2] https://www.govexec.com/management/2018/08/these-agencies-have-lost-most-workers-under-trump/150577/
[3] https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-The-Trump-Organization-EI_IE3007.11,33.htm
[4] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization
[5] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/tracking-turnover-in-the-trump-administration/
[6] https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2025-01-20/trump-seeks-to-end-telework-for-federal-workers
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_brand
[8] https://www.factcheck.org/2018/04/trumps-numbers-first-quarterly-update/
[9] https://www.zippia.com/the-trump-organization-careers-41590/
[10] https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-trump-organization
Agree. 95% of people have no idea what is going on and misdirect their anger brought on by widespread corruption to the wrong source. People are blind. I, however, am not. I also reached out to a few attorneys regarding the corruption taking place with adhd medications presently. The brand Adderall was bought by a Japanese company – Takeda – which is essentially owned by Blackrock and now magically the medication and its generics not only no longer work, but are making people sick. Coincidence? I think we know the answer. This country has been calcified with corruption and it’s seeped its way into everything we touch. I am tired. I demand answers and accountability. Godspeed, God Bless, and Cheers to a (hopefully) new day.