Donald and Melania Trump: what advantages can they claim after the White House?
The United States plans to award Donald and Melania Trump with several in-kind benefits, which they will receive for life, after the couple left the White House for Florida on Wednesday, January 20.
What will Donald Trump do with his new life outside the White House? Nothing is less sure. If there is one thing for sure, it is that the American president did not leave the Oval Office empty-handed. As provided by law, former US presidents and their wives see a number of benefits when they step down as head of state. Donald and Melania Trump, who took over their Palm Beach property without attending Joe Biden's inauguration, are initially entitled to lifetime protection from the U.S. Secret Service. For his part, the youngest of the Trump siblings, Barron (14), will be entitled to this protection until he is sixteen. Cost of the operation: one million dollars per year for the former US president and 500,000 dollars for the former First Lady, who did not hide his impatience to leave the White House.
But that's not all: if Donald Trump has done without his salary as president ($ 400,000 per year), he is entitled to receive a pension of $ 219,300 per year, details Le Monde, which specifies that this golden pension also concerns spouses, up to $ 20,000 per year for life. Not sure they need it however, when we know that Michelle and Barack Obama have received no less than $ 65 million for the writing of their memoirs. Among other benefits in kind, the former presidential couple can benefit from an office and administrative staff, paid up to $ 150,000 per year, a building reserved for Washington, a dedicated personal library as well as coverage of health costs for the couple as well as for their minor children. By way of comparison, the former French presidents are better off: retirement (6,220 euros per month) and ancillary costs represent nearly 20,000 euros per month per president in France, against 17,500 euros in the United States.
"I'll be back"
Since Donald Trump is no longer President of the United States, the 74-year-old billionaire has cast doubt on his ambitions in his new life. Found your own television channel? Devote yourself to your passion for golf? "I will come back one way or another," he had said in any case, a few hours before the end of his mandate, from the tarmac at Andrews military base in Maryland. At the origin of an explosive book on the former real estate mogul, his niece Mary Trump expressed her fears about a possible return to politics. "When he talks about coming back, we can only worry about it", she said, while several Anglo-Saxon media report that he could well found his own political party ...
