Kayleigh McEnany, White House press secretary, speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, May 22, 2020. President Trump ordered states to allow churches to reopen from stay-at-home restrictions imposed to combat the coronavirus outbreak, saying he would override any governor who refuses. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images
President Donald Trump's administration has made a show of donating his quarterly salary since he took office, but Friday's big reveal went a little too far, NBCNews reports.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany kicked off the press briefing by announcing that Trump would donate $100,000 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to develop new therapies for treating and preventing coronavirus.
"Here is the check," she said before holding up what appeared to be a real Capital One check bearing personal details such as his Mar-a-Lago resort address in Florida as well as his accounting and routing numbers.
