How on earth are they allowed to put this promise on the literal white house website? This country is a joke and danger to both itself and the rest of the world.
Add that to all the other "your cheque is in the mail" gambits that trump throws out there and american citizens won't need to work or contribute at all anymore! /s
I love free government money. As every MAGA does right? Also /s
In a functioning democracy such an election promise is a crime, but so are Super PACS and gerry-mandering and data scraping from voters via scam sites or abusing of entirely different public databases. Also, in a functioning democracy such crimes get prosecuted.
Idiots will believe and vote. That's a great way to count all the idiots in the US.
Reminder that 80% of people don't read past the headline - most people will believe the lie even if they only see it here. News outlets know this, so the headline should be "Trump breaks the law and commits election fraud with false claims about payments to voters" or whatever.
Prison terms and conditions may apply.
Even if they win he still won’t pay.
I cannot understand how MAGAts don't understand that. He just says random shit and hope it sticks enough to make him win.
I have a few coworkers who are all in on Trump no matter what and it’s always amazing to hear them weekly. Say the same thing that he says the war is over. Gas is going to be cheap renaming the lake somehow helps us since his speech about giving $5000 after the midterms he is so excited and so ready for their Donnie dollars.
Thank God. I already spent my DOGE and tariff checks.
/s
And I'm on my third dessert at that Cuban restaurant in Miami.
He did not say where the money would come from.
Same place the tariff rebates came from: nowhere.
Not to mention all the tariffs collected by him don't add up to 250m americans x $5000, not even close. In a way, I hope the americans believe him, so that they don't give the rest of the world any hope that the US can be reasonable, but on the other hand, jesus f christ we've all had enough of the sweaty tangerine
You know what'd be better? Electing DSA candidates all across the country, taxing all the billionaires and megacorps, and redistributing that wealth unconditionally to everyone as $5000 UBI checks every year
But but that's socialism
It reminds me of Batman the first Tim Burton one in 1989, in which the Joker promises to give away a ton of money in the town square (so he can kill them all with poison gas).
I'm also reminded of the anti-union signs that suggest getting a game console instead of paying union dues.
The game console poster is so cartoonishly evil it loops around to being a little funny
this uh...illegal. then again...when you elect a criminal you should expect them to commit crimes.
Worked for dubya... Twice if I remember right.
The sky high gas prices this fucking piece of shit personally created have not only ravaged us at the pumps, but also ravaged every delivery driver... Driving ALL costs up
This fucker owes us FAR more than 5k, man.
If I am elected president, I will give every American 50,000.
$50,002 if i get elected
This reeks of desperation, that means he's scared. Don't let up, get out and VOTE!
It's not desperation, its not his money and if it actually happened, it would hamstring the incoming Dem president in 2028:
“Only I can make this promise to you,” he said, adding that the Republicans would have to win both the House of Representatives and the Senate for the money to be paid out.
And not only wouldn't it be his money, it wouldn't even be "real" money. There's not a trillion dollars laying around for this (literally what it would cost).
Since Trump's first term in 2016, the debt has doubled from 19 trillion to 40 trillion. This will get tacked on and the debt will be used as an excuse not to fund social programs.
~270,000,000 adult Americans X $5,000
$1,350,000,000,000.
Right.
Don't forget the economic shock that would follow. Everyone has a few grand in their piggy bank? Time to raise prices, buying power has just gone up. Then people complain they still have the same standard of living. Salaries stay the same. Prices won't go back down. The dollar is worth even less.
Guess who wins there.
Oh, just another Trillion to the debt of $40T… no big deal, right? Man, who do we have to write to write off that debt? No one is buying it, and we have to buy it home. It’s an ouruborus of debt at this point.
Probably coming from all the taxes they've taken from us and which we will have to pay back next year anyway, so this is just a gimmick for his idiot followers again.
It's not coming from anywhere because he has no intention of sending them.
Oh you're def right about that. Trump would much rather start WW3, hide away in his golden sphere, and send everybody else to fight rather than do anything that would actually benefit anybody but himself.
But I absolutely love being bribed with my own money!
Will Mexico pay for it, too?
... by the way, how are you doing on releasing those tax returns? Any progress?
Also, I'm still eagerly awaiting your massive health care bill that you said you'd release.... 10 years ago.
I'd say 2500 now and 2500 later, good to see politicians buying our votes
Fuck it at this point I'm gonna start betting against this shit on polymarket or kalshi or whatever
There isn't enough money in the world to make me vote Republican.
Hasn't he already promised us money that no one except corporations have gotten?
DOGE checks, tariff refunds, something about an Obamacare refund I think.
Disclaimer: $5000 in TRUMP cryptocoins, which will be worthless 2min after you have received it.
Still waiting on those tarriff refunds! And lower egg costs. And lower gas costs. But I'm sure it's being worked on and likely held up by those dirty dems!
Wait... who controls the house and senate? I forgot.
And White House and Supreme Court
Vote for me. If win I'll do 20k
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