It took a while, but after reporters started asking whether Donald Trump was indeed donating his presidential salary as he had promised he'd do we now have word that he is, at least if the check clears, really going to be donating his first few paychecks to a good cause. He'll be giving that $78,000 to the National Park Service, as White House Press Secretary made VERY CLEAR with not one, but two separate oversized novelty checks.
"It is my pleasure on behalf of the President of the United States to present a check for $78,333 to the secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, and superintendent of the Harpers Ferry park site, Superintendent Brandyburg," Spicer said.
Trump's budget axes 12% of the Department of Interior's total budget and his "hiring freeze" is already shutting down some park services even as national parks struggle with $12 billion in deferred maintenance, so the service might be forgiving for considering this move to be something akin to getting a Hallmark sympathy card from the serial killer that did in your grandma. But Trump is purported to be "personally proud" of his gesture.