Million$ rolling in for prez
President Trump hauled in tens of millions from his resorts, golf clubs and hundreds of other businesses — plus an $84,000 pension for his TV work, according to financial-disclosure forms released late Friday by the Office of Government Ethics.
Trump also took in $19.7 million from his luxury Washington hotel, which opened in September 2016and has been the subject of controversy because people looking to curry favor with the president have been staying or holding events at the facility.
The 98-page voluntarydisclosure document, which covers January 2016 to this spring, says Trump earned $37,251,635 in “resort-related revenue” from Mar-a-Lago, and $19,752,500 in “golf related revenue” from Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ.
The Mar-a-Lago figure was $7.4 million more than he reported on his previous financial disclosure filing in May 2016, CNN reported.
The president also raked in $20,131,872 from the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla.; $14,487,619 from Trump Turnberry in Scotland and $12,498,172 from his golf club in Ireland.
He pocketed another $18,045,141 from the Trump Corporation.
And he reported $7 million in book royalties -- plus an $84,000 pension from the Screen Actors Guild, mostly for his work on “The Apprentice” and “Celebrity Apprentice.”
On Monday, attorneys general for the District of Columbia and Maryland filed a lawsuit accusing Trump of improperly accepting payments from foreign governments through the DC hotel and other business interests, claiming that is unconstitutional.
The report shows Trump resigned from more than 500 positions, many of them a day before his inauguration as president.Trump listed at least $315 million in liabilities, about the same as in a report he filed last year.
The documents have added importance because Trump isn’t following the long tradition of presidential candidates and officeholders making public his tax returns.
Those returns would provide more complete financial information than the personal financial disclosures, which only include broad ranges for income and debts.