Feb 06, 2017 · Obama donated $15,000 to the fund in its first year and $1,000 the next year. He also pitched in $17,000 to help pay for the Martin Luther King …
Apr 15, 2016 · April 15, 2016 6:05 PM EDT P resident Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama donated more than $64,000 to charity in 2015, about 15% of their income, according to a copy of the couple’s tax...
Feb 14, 2012 · His 2010 tax return shows that he contributed nearly $3 million to charitable causes out of taxable income of $21.6 million. That’s 13.8 percent, just about equal to Obama’s percentage in that...
Barack Obama and his wife donated $240,000 to charity in 2007. In addition to all that money, he has also donated all of his Nobel Peace Prize money, a whopping $1.4 million, to charity.
Barack Obama and his wife donated $240,000 to charity in 2007.
Last year, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian efforts and for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy.
Obama heartily praised Dikembe Mutombo for his efforts to bring health care and education to Democratic Republic of the Congo. As president, Obama has made changes to help young people with their student loan repayments. By doing this, he hopes to persuade more people to do humanitarian work.
It’s true that the current president donates his salary, but Obama donated about $2.5 million to charities while in office. Michelle Obama’s staff was about 25, but Melania Trump’s is about 11.
Trump and Obama on salary. U.S. presidents make $400,000 a year. It’s true that Trump donates his salary. Though presidents are required to be compensated for their work, Trump takes just $1 each year from his paychecks. He has donated a quarter of his annual salary to a different government agency each fiscal quarter.
Michelle Obama’s staff was bigger than Melania Trump’s, but numbers are off. According to the 2020 annual report to Congress on White House office personnel, there are eight roles directly tied to the first lady via title. But there are other staffers who work for the first lady and do not have that phrase in their title.