Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November.
The dubious promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate the country’s nearly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit and concerns about inflation.
This asshat raised my taxes $8500 a year and wants to give me $5000 one time? Yea, sure. Sadly MAGAts will fall for it again.
In other words, Trump feels the only way that Americans will vote for candidates who support his unpopular agenda is to bribe them.
Less than a year ago he promised $2k checks from his tariffs. MAGA has the attention span of a guppy.
They bought his cheap made in China maga clothes
They bought his $500 dollar gold sneakers which turned out to be trash
They bought his expensive ecd knife which turned out to be gas-station-knife quality
They bought his crypto which turned out to be pump&dump and lost money
They bought gold phone which turned out to be plastic and 2 years out of date
They’re buying the minted coin which they lose money on
Something tells me they’ll still fall for this one thinking it will be the one that’s genuine.
Something tells me they’ll still fall for this one thinking it will be the one that’s genuine.
No idea how you came up with such a radical idea. Seems like a long shot to me.
/s
Like he was going to end the war on Ukraine in 24 hours and release the Epstein files?
Like Iran would take a week?
Like Mexico would be paying for that wall?
Like America would be great again?
Not that anybody but billionaires will ever get paid
Each week the government said less about the findings of the board of inquiry which was to decide how the $5000 per person could be wangled. It became easier to answer malcontents with a cuff from a Minute Man than by repetitious statements from Washington.
I mean, Trump’s entire life could be described as writing checks with his mouth that he can’t actually cash.
He literally loves going bankrupt.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-king-of-debt-224642
“I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt. Nobody knows debt better than me,” Trump told Norah O’Donnell in an interview that aired on “CBS This Morning.” “I’ve made a fortune by using debt, and if things don’t work out I renegotiate the debt. I mean, that’s a smart thing, not a stupid thing.”
“How do you renegotiate the debt?” O’Donnell followed up.
“You go back and you say, hey guess what, the economy crashed,” Trump replied. “I’m going to give you back half.”
Clinton blasted Trump’s economic views in a speech on Tuesday, accusing him of gambling with the full faith and credit of the United States by flirting with a default on the debt.
“That could cause an economic catastrophe, and it would break 225 years of ironclad trust that the American economy has with Americans and with the rest of the world,” Clinton said. “Alexander Hamilton would be rolling in his grave. You see, we pay our debts.”
I mean, rare Hillary W, but uh yeah, we’ve known for 10 years what his plan here was… it’s been really obvious the whole time, actually.
Anytime a Republian mentions fiscal responsibilty, you have my permission to do debt collection for the tooth fairy, from their face.
Would an American take a bribe of 5k and continue lashing itself for another 2 years…
Yah probubly…
I dunno, in the year those checks would take to get out, that MIGHT get you a value meal. No supersize though.
Sure, his promises ar reliable.
D E S P E R A T E
And fucking liar, he will not send anyone a check period even if they did win. But fuck that vote folks are lives at stake here.
Still waiting for my DOGE and tariff rebate checks that he promised.
Cool. Epstein files?
Now do it every other month and call it UBI. Oh no we can’t have that? That would be communism?
Sorry, I’m apparently unfamiliar with how democracy works. You are allowed to pay people to vote for you?
Yep. This is how Doug Ford is Premiere of Ontario. He literally went into low income housing and gave out $20 bills.
You are allowed to pay people to vote for you?
No, and this is a violation. Either paying $5k dividend is a good or bad idea. Congress will vote on it. You can’t say that it is only a good idea if Nazis keep control of congress.
I guess technically he’s just running on a “give every American adult 5k” platform ? Of course I wouldn’t put it past him to try to only give them to GOP voters
Funding only available in safe red districts.
Let’s be real. No one would get actually get it.
If you convince enough wealthy people apparently “democracy” means you can just do whatever you feel like.
Yeah, democracy, according to the Americans . They also allow their “leader” to make “executive” decisions like a dictator 😆.
he is a liar,
That’s bad, but he’s delulu,
And that’s even worse!
He also said the war would end right after the mid terms. Unclear if that is also “conditional” on GOP holding senate.
The big problem with the promises is why not do these now? Does he expect democrats to be the ones blocking ending the war, or “radical lunatic left” $5000 dividend cheques? There are no Republican stooge voices supporting either plan.
It’s not as crazy as destroying global and US economy IF Federal reserve (fresh stooge appointed) doesn’t decrease rates, but rates are going up mostly because of Trump senility and credibility problems. Yesterday’s promises are just more threats to Americans if they don’t behave.
Media GOP stooges, all of them, failing to press Trump and other stooges, on why make any of these policies conditional on election results is part of their corruption.
While relief for Americans will never happen, ending the war timing is extremely puzzling. To actually get gas on a path back down to $2/gallon, it needs to be a victory declaration that permits Iran to toll the free flow of oil from the region. That would help GOP in mid terms if done now. A much more violent end of the war, involves US military losses, and long term destruction of regional infrastructure, and ultra high oil prices for years, that would cause voter disapproval if done before elections.
