JimLur, If, for any reason, you accepted a pig, it would be yours and you could give it back. If you refuse to accept the pig, it stops
there. The owner of the pig could do with it what they want. Same goes for a pig's salary. It's only semantics, yet looks right to me.
"...Again, Trump answered, “No, I’m not gonna take the salary. I’m not taking it.”"
If he never took it how could he give it back?
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”