TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House made an announcement about President Donald Trump’s taxes on Tuesday! [4-17-18] ‘The President filed an extension for his 2017 tax return, as do many Americans with complex returns,’ White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. ‘He will file his tax return by the extension deadline of October 15, 2018.’ Not the tax returns announcement you were expecting out of the White House? It should be. With a midnight Tuesday deadline for all Americans to file their taxes (or seek an extension ala Trump), it’s a good time to remember this fact: The President of the United States has still never released any detailed — or un-detailed — information about his tax returns. That makes him the only modern president to refuse to do so. He was also the only modern-era major party presidential nominee not to release any sort of tax return information. History! That historic lack of transparency has not, however, stopped Trump from pushing into law a major overhaul of the nation’s tax structure.”
–Chris Cillizza, “Happy Tax Day! Donald Trump still has never released his tax returns!,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, April 17, 2018 3:54 pm