How Trump Can Make Money Off the Secret Service

If agents fly on the president’s planes, the president may get paid.

Donald Trump waves while boarding the Trump plane after a campaign rally at the Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, on March 1, 2016.
Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg

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By Justin Bachman

November 15, 2016 at 11:00 AM UTC

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When Donald Trump was mulling a run for the White House back in 2000, Fortune magazine reported that he had combined his political appearances with 10 paid speeches for motivational guru Tony Robbins, so he could earn money while assessing a candidacy. “It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it,” Trump told the magazine. The sentiment may prove prescient.

Electing a U.S. president who is also a billionaire can carry all sorts of novel complications. One, for example, is Donald Trump’s fleet of two airplanes and three helicopters (including a Sikorsky S-76 featured last year on a television segment called “Pimp My Chopper”).