Like vote buying!
New York PostBy Victor NavaSept. 9, 2026President Trump pledged to give every US citizen a $5,000 dividend Wednesday if Republicans keep the House and Senate after the midterm elections.“Here is my promise: If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic, tremendous economic success …. I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000,” Trump said at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas.The president said the so-called “Trump dividend” money must be spent in the US.
While everyone else calls it vote buying!
The Daily Beast wrote in the Desperate Trump Offers Brazen Cash Bribe in Bonkers Speech article;
However Trump’s promise would not only require congressional approval, it would likely spike inflation. With just under 270 million adults living in the U.S., Trump’s $5,000 handout would lead to a budget blowout of up to $1.3 trillion, blowing out America’s existing $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit.The current U.S. debt is around $40 trillion.Speaking on Fox News, host Bret Baier raised the $1.3 trillion cost with Vice President JD Vance.Baier suggested “critics” would say “the president is bribing voters to vote for Republicans... and he is bankrupting the country because the debt is huge and inflation would come back if this comes to play.”
Now get a load of JD's reply, it is a doozy...
Vance called the $5,000 “fundamentally a dividend for American workers” and said it could be funded by revenues raised by U.S. tariffs.
So... who pays for the tariffs? We do.
So, in Republican logic... we get taxed so they can give us our money back... minus shipping and handling charges.
Besides the fuzzy logic, there is also the issue of vote buying!
The British Independent write...
Commentators accused the president of attempting to bribe voters to back Republicans, who are forecast to suffer heavy losses in November.In a post on X, reporter Sam Stein accused the president of describing "openly bribing people to vote for Republicans."
We have the best government money can buy!
I noticed something in writing this... not one American mainstream news outlet used the word “bribe.”
NPR pussy-footed around it by calling it: “To incentivize voters to cast ballots for Republicans.”
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