{"id":7741,"date":"2025-10-24T17:49:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7741"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:49:27","slug":"bernie-sanders-calls-out-trumps-eye-popping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7741","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders calls out Trump\u2019s eye-popping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Trump\u2019s Salary vs. Wealth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump often says he doesn\u2019t take a presidential salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As president, he earns $400,000 a year, plus allowances,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and has donated portions of his salary to causes and White House renovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Massive Settlements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2025, Trump won huge legal payouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meta agreed to pay $25 million, with $22 million going to his presidential library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>YouTube settled for $24.5 million, and Twitter (X) for $10 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paramount and CBS contributed $16 million plus $20 million in advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/10\/23080155\/GettyImages-2241260887-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-178888\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Criticism and Controversy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Bernie Sanders tweeted: \u201cThis is what kleptocracy looks like,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>highlighting Trump\u2019s reported 2025 earnings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>including $3 billion from crypto and $230 million sought from the DOJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump\u2019s Perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump defended the payouts, saying, \u201cAll I know is that they would owe me a lot of money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I\u2019m not looking for money. I\u2019d give it to charity or something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions remain about whether such earnings are appropriate for a sitting president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s Salary vs. Wealth Donald Trump often says he doesn\u2019t take a presidential salary. As president, he earns $400,000 a year, plus allowances, and has donated portions of his salary to causes and White House renovations. Massive Settlements In 2025, Trump won huge legal payouts. Meta agreed to pay $25 million, with $22 million going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7743,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions\/7743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}