Regardless of his intentions, keep in mind that the criminal moron can, and I suppose will, change his mind after the vote. How often has he gone TACO and lied to you? How often has he made promises he never kept? Why would anyone with integrity sell their votes and their consciences for $5,000 that they may never see?
Trump is treating the American people like he has always treated his prostitutes, porn actresses, and the like: Pay them and they'll do anything. Grab them by the pussy and they'll fall in your arms. For the pedophile friend "with wonderful secrets", Trump doesn't see a difference between his $5,000 to buy people's votes and his "Give me a blowjob and I'll pay you $5,000" to a prostitute.
Assuming 200 million Americans only (out of a total 350 million population) receive this $5,000 check, the price of this pimping exercise is a staggering $1 trillion to add to the $41 trillion national debt (10 trillions of which were added in 2 years only by Donald Dumb). But even if he manages to keep the House and Senate in his swollen hands, I am 100% certain he will renege on his pledge. What's another lie on top of all his other lies?
Compare that with President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) that rescued the economy by lowering taxes to help struggling Americans recover from the other moron Republican President, George W Bush, and the disastrous economic collapse of the great recession he caused (December 2007–June 2009). Like Bush, Trump continues to push for deregulation and less oversight over his fellow billionaires' corrupt financial institutions and corporations that hold the American people captive hostages.
Compare that with President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) that rescued the economy by lowering taxes to help struggling Americans recover from the other moron Republican President, George W Bush, and the disastrous economic collapse of the great recession he caused (December 2007–June 2009). Like Bush, Trump continues to push for deregulation and less oversight over his fellow billionaires' corrupt financial institutions and corporations that hold the American people captive hostages.
With Bush, his policies led to the chaotic and greed-driven subprime mortgage crisis and the housing market collapse. With Trump, many economic experts keep warning that not only is the US economy riding on a wave of hubris similar to the period preceding the housing market collapse, but that the post-Covid inflationary vector has yet to abate because of Trump's foreign wars, rising energy prices, declining affordability and an overall international anarchy whose instability is certainly calling for a major corrective depression, not unlike that of 1929.
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Trump pitches $5,000 checks, but only if GOP wins House and Senate
Joe Walsh
Updated Thu, September 10, 2026
President Trump vowed Wednesday to send a $5,000 "dividend" to every American citizen after the midterms, but only if Republicans hold onto control of the House and Senate.
The announcement came almost an hour into Mr. Trump's speech to the Republican National Committee's first-of-its-kind midterm convention in Dallas, as he seeks to rally Republican voters and fight significant political headwinds in the November elections.
"If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000," he said.
The president did not offer details on how the payments — which he dubbed "Trump Dividends" — would work, including whether he plans to ask Congress to authorize the checks. He has floated the idea of cutting checks to U.S. citizens in the past, proposing $2,000 dividends funded by tariffs last year.
Mr. Trump argued the payments would be a consequence of the country's "tremendous economic success," and suggested they could be funded partially by his administration's tariffs on foreign goods.
The U.S. has brought in just under $500 billion in tariff and excise tax revenue since the start of last year, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. More than $100 billion has been refunded due to a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that struck down many of the administration's tariffs.
Sending out $5,000 checks to all of America's approximately 245 million adult citizens could cost upwards of $1 trillion.
There is some precedent for broad-based payments to U.S. households. In 2020 and 2021, Congress allowed the Biden and first Trump administrations to send out several rounds of checks to American households in an effort to stimulate the COVID-ravaged economy. But any economic stimulus program runs the risk of causing inflation to spike, and many economists believe the pandemic-era stimulus was at least partially responsible for the rise in consumer prices that ensued over the following years.
During Wednesday's speech, Mr. Trump likened the payments to his Trump Account child investment funds, which were authorized by Congress, and last year's "warrior dividend" bonuses to U.S. service members, which were funded through a military housing supplement approved by lawmakers.
Mr. Trump is seeking to rally Republicans ahead of the midterms, vowing during Wednesday's speech to campaign for vulnerable GOP lawmakers, and urging voters to treat the November elections as a referendum on his presidency.
"I'm asking you to pretend that I'm on the ballot … just one more time," Mr. Trump said, repeating a line he has used several times in recent weeks.
But Republicans are facing down voters' historical tendency to reject the party that controls the White House in the midterms. Mr. Trump's own lagging approval rating could also be a drag on the party, with Democrats seeking to capitalize on the Iran war's unpopularity and voters' unhappiness with the Trump administration's handling of the economy.
Mr. Trump acknowledged that historical trend, saying, "the midterms are not supposed to be won by the sitting president," but "we're going to change that."
He told the audience he views about 35 House and Senate districts as especially crucial, and vowed to "go to every one of those states," holding both in-person rallies and telephone town halls. Many candidates likely also want access to the president's nine-figure super PAC war chest.
The president hit many of his familiar rally points during the speech, touting his record on border security, last year's tax legislation, his tariff-heavy approach to trade and his White House renovation kick — including his planned ballroom.
He spent somewhat less time on the war with Iran, though he defended his decision to launch the conflict, insisting the U.S. is winning and mused about renaming the Strait of Hormuz the "Trump Strait."
He also jabbed congressional Democrats.
"Hand America's future to the radical-left Democrats, and our nation will spend the next decade just getting back on its feet. It will be a tragedy," he said. "Vote Republican, and we will leave the world in our dust for generations to come."
Several Trump-allied midterm contenders are slated to speak at the convention. The GOP's embattled Senate candidates in Texas and Georgia — state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Mike Collins, respectively — addressed the crowd on Wednesday.
Collins is fighting to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, and Paxton is seeking to prevent James Talarico from becoming the first Democrat to represent Texas in the Senate since the early 1990s.
Mr. Trump vowed to support Paxton, saying he's willing to visit Texas multiple times to campaign if necessary. At one point, he said Paxton "may not dress right," "may not talk exactly perfectly" and "may not be the best-looking guy I've ever seen," but added: "He's the greatest attorney general in America, and he deserves to be your next senator."
Other battleground state Republicans are not planning to attend the two-day midterm convention. A handful of vulnerable GOP House candidates told CBS News earlier this week they plan to spend this week campaigning instead.
The convention cost about $40 million to stage and organizers raised funds to cover the cost, several sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.
Shortly after Mr. Trump's remarks, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin called the convention a "desperate attempt by Republicans to ignore the reality that all of their vulnerable candidates are poised to lose in November."
"Republicans now have to spin his disastrous, rambling speech when it's clear that this bizarre dog-and-pony show is being held to placate Trump's fragile ego," Martin said in a statement.
Trump pitches $5,000 checks, but only if GOP wins House and Senate
Joe Walsh
Updated Thu, September 10, 2026
President Trump vowed Wednesday to send a $5,000 "dividend" to every American citizen after the midterms, but only if Republicans hold onto control of the House and Senate.
The announcement came almost an hour into Mr. Trump's speech to the Republican National Committee's first-of-its-kind midterm convention in Dallas, as he seeks to rally Republican voters and fight significant political headwinds in the November elections.
"If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000," he said.
The president did not offer details on how the payments — which he dubbed "Trump Dividends" — would work, including whether he plans to ask Congress to authorize the checks. He has floated the idea of cutting checks to U.S. citizens in the past, proposing $2,000 dividends funded by tariffs last year.
Mr. Trump argued the payments would be a consequence of the country's "tremendous economic success," and suggested they could be funded partially by his administration's tariffs on foreign goods.
The U.S. has brought in just under $500 billion in tariff and excise tax revenue since the start of last year, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. More than $100 billion has been refunded due to a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that struck down many of the administration's tariffs.
Sending out $5,000 checks to all of America's approximately 245 million adult citizens could cost upwards of $1 trillion.
There is some precedent for broad-based payments to U.S. households. In 2020 and 2021, Congress allowed the Biden and first Trump administrations to send out several rounds of checks to American households in an effort to stimulate the COVID-ravaged economy. But any economic stimulus program runs the risk of causing inflation to spike, and many economists believe the pandemic-era stimulus was at least partially responsible for the rise in consumer prices that ensued over the following years.
During Wednesday's speech, Mr. Trump likened the payments to his Trump Account child investment funds, which were authorized by Congress, and last year's "warrior dividend" bonuses to U.S. service members, which were funded through a military housing supplement approved by lawmakers.
Mr. Trump is seeking to rally Republicans ahead of the midterms, vowing during Wednesday's speech to campaign for vulnerable GOP lawmakers, and urging voters to treat the November elections as a referendum on his presidency.
"I'm asking you to pretend that I'm on the ballot … just one more time," Mr. Trump said, repeating a line he has used several times in recent weeks.
But Republicans are facing down voters' historical tendency to reject the party that controls the White House in the midterms. Mr. Trump's own lagging approval rating could also be a drag on the party, with Democrats seeking to capitalize on the Iran war's unpopularity and voters' unhappiness with the Trump administration's handling of the economy.
Mr. Trump acknowledged that historical trend, saying, "the midterms are not supposed to be won by the sitting president," but "we're going to change that."
He told the audience he views about 35 House and Senate districts as especially crucial, and vowed to "go to every one of those states," holding both in-person rallies and telephone town halls. Many candidates likely also want access to the president's nine-figure super PAC war chest.
The president hit many of his familiar rally points during the speech, touting his record on border security, last year's tax legislation, his tariff-heavy approach to trade and his White House renovation kick — including his planned ballroom.
He spent somewhat less time on the war with Iran, though he defended his decision to launch the conflict, insisting the U.S. is winning and mused about renaming the Strait of Hormuz the "Trump Strait."
He also jabbed congressional Democrats.
"Hand America's future to the radical-left Democrats, and our nation will spend the next decade just getting back on its feet. It will be a tragedy," he said. "Vote Republican, and we will leave the world in our dust for generations to come."
Several Trump-allied midterm contenders are slated to speak at the convention. The GOP's embattled Senate candidates in Texas and Georgia — state Attorney General Ken Paxton and Rep. Mike Collins, respectively — addressed the crowd on Wednesday.
Collins is fighting to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, and Paxton is seeking to prevent James Talarico from becoming the first Democrat to represent Texas in the Senate since the early 1990s.
Mr. Trump vowed to support Paxton, saying he's willing to visit Texas multiple times to campaign if necessary. At one point, he said Paxton "may not dress right," "may not talk exactly perfectly" and "may not be the best-looking guy I've ever seen," but added: "He's the greatest attorney general in America, and he deserves to be your next senator."
Other battleground state Republicans are not planning to attend the two-day midterm convention. A handful of vulnerable GOP House candidates told CBS News earlier this week they plan to spend this week campaigning instead.
The convention cost about $40 million to stage and organizers raised funds to cover the cost, several sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.
Shortly after Mr. Trump's remarks, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin called the convention a "desperate attempt by Republicans to ignore the reality that all of their vulnerable candidates are poised to lose in November."
"Republicans now have to spin his disastrous, rambling speech when it's clear that this bizarre dog-and-pony show is being held to placate Trump's fragile ego," Martin said in a statement.
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Here is another similar take on this Trump's attempt to purchase votes:======================================================
Donald Trump Just Basically Bribed Americans to Vote for Republicans
Hunter Walker
Thu, September 10, 2026
The Republican National Committee's midterm convention featured fantastical assessments of Trump's presidency, false claims of an economic boom, and bizarre spectacles, including a cash offer to voters.
With his poll numbers at record lows, gas prices at record highs, and mounting signs of momentum for the Democrats, President Donald Trump just debuted a novel strategy to secure votes: bribery. Speaking at the Republican National Committee's historically unheard of midterms convention on Wednesday evening, Trump offered to pay Americans $5,000 each if — and only if — the GOP is victorious in the upcoming elections.
"Because we've done so well and because our country is making so much money that only I can make this promise to you and here is my promise, if the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate — both of them … because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000," Trump declared during his headlining speech.
The president framed this extraordinary offer as a result of unprecedented "tremendous economic success."
"In history we've never had anything like what's happening," Trump said.
In reality, under Trump, the national debt has ballooned to record levels and caused alarm on Wall Street. Inflation has also continued to rise and investors are on edge over a pair of reports due out on Thursday and Friday that could show the situation has edged beyond Federal Reserve targets. Cost of living is rising as well, amid sluggish growth and the gas spikes caused by Trump's ongoing and unpopular war in Iran. Trump's tariffs have also led to trade wars with allies and higher prices for consumers. Overall, the economic situation is considered a major factor in Trump's plummeting poll numbers and projections that show wider worries for Republicans, who are likely to lose the House in November.
The RNC's wildly unusual midterm convention, which was the first of its kind, took place in Dallas, Texas against this dire backdrop. Even before Trump made his cash offer backed by false claims of an economic boom, his speech was filled with fantastical assessments of his presidency. That journey through the looking glass mirrored the several hours of preceding remarks from other speakers, including GOP candidates and members of Congress, who framed the party's agenda as being focused on economic growth while rooting out corruption and extremism. They contrasted this with the Democratic Party, which they repeatedly characterized as "communist."
It was as though Trump and the other Republicans who took the stage were addressing the nation from an alternate universe where there is no cost of living crisis and the president hasn't amassed unprecedented sums and blatant conflicts of interest while in office. Their hallucinatory vision of dangerously radical Democrats also ignores the fact that the party's centrist wing just scored a series of victories in congressional primaries while Trump and his allies maintain extensive connections to violent extremists.
In keeping with the effort to paint his policies as actually good for the economy, Trump cast his $5,000 payout as the result of the contrast between the two political parties.
"The reason the Democrats can't do that is because they don't do tariffs, they don't take in money," Trump said of the offer. "All they know is poverty and how to ruin our country."
Along with the upside down vision of the country, the RNC midterm convention featured several odd spectacles including what … appeared to be an attempted butt slap from a Cabinet secretary, blatant lying about the anemic crowd, and — for some reason — a shirtless picture of leftist podcaster Hasan Piker on the jumbotron. Through it all, there was a grey haired DJ spinning country music and 80's classics. Amid all of this weirdness, there was one bit of clearly good news for the GOP. With the poor polling, Democrats have an outside shot at securing a Senate majority. However, during the convention, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) broadcast a video clip to the convention audience that seemed like, at least, a partial defection from his caucus. The video added to concerns that Fetterman could switch parties following extensive leaks to the Wall Street Journal from his own staffers who have been worried Fetterman is more focused on clashing with fellow Democrats on Israel and making appearances on Fox News than he is on the basic duties of his position.
Yet even with all of this bizarro pomp and circumstance, Trump's promise of cash payments stood out as a landmark moment in the MAGA era. The president framed it as being "very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders."
"The only condition on the payment of this dividend that we're going to be making — so it's $5,000 to every adult — the only caveat I have is that the dividend that we're making must be spent in the United States of America," Trump said. "We don't want you going to Canada to spend the money. We don't want you going to China, to Germany. You've got to spend the money in the United States of America."
On the off chance that Trump's proposal manages to turn the tides and encourage a Republican sweep in the midterms, it is unclear how he plans to track Americans' spending.
Trump and his allies are no strangers to questionable cash transactions. Behind the scenes, various administration officials and Trump family members have been involved in all manner of wheeling and dealing. Trump has also previously put his name on checks, payments, and other financial vehicles provided to Americans during his tenure. And, during the last presidential election, Elon Musk, who is both the richest person in the world and the GOP's biggest megadonor, made $1 million payments to voters in the key state of Wisconsin, in a move that raised legal concerns.
Federal law clearly prohibits anyone from offering to pay for votes. It is unclear what manner of loophole Trump might cite to get around the obvious issues raised by his $5,000 promise.
Trump appeared to be unbothered by any technical or legal details as he took the stage on Wednesday night. The president, whose convention remarks stretched for over an hour and is set to speak again during the second night of the event on Thursday, framed the cash offer as "the best part of the speech."
"We're making a fortune, so if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000," he said. "It will be called the 'Trump Dividend.' We'll call it the 'Trump Dividend.'
After branding his payments, Trump preemptively patted the public on the back for being in on his scheme.
"Congratulations," he said. "Now, all we have to do is win."
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