Trump steals people’s money, then gives some back to them, and that’s supposed to pacify them?
How about not stealing people’s money to begin with?Hello, let me introduce you to capitalism
and that’s supposed to pacify them?
Every single MAGAt will instantly forget any complaints the second they have a check in hand.
It doesn’t actually sound like anyone will get a check “lots of ways” probably means it’s never going to happen, but all the MAGAs will point to him just saying this and gushing about how generous he is
That’s weird, because the COVID checks were insanely popular and just giving everyone a $2000 check with his name on it would be great politics. I guess it’s good they’re doing it differently.
Well you have to factor 2 things, there still was a battle with congress to get those checks out during covid. (I remember Bernie walking into congress with the massive printout of trumps tweet saying he was going to send out checks), and of course factoring in that trump knew he wanted to get elected again. It’s 3 years away from the next presidential election… and him getting a 3rd term probably doesn’t involve an election.
Bread and circuses
that was pretty much hamstrung by lich mcconnel, who laughed at the idea of giving poors anything, hes worst than trump by the way, until THE LICH WAS PRESSURE to vote on it.
choco rations increased to twenty grams a week
Because he only has to be smarter than the dumbest people.
why not steal it from other rich people and give to the actual people.
So a $2k decrease in taxes using some kind of unspecified math, while cost of living increases by triple that number.
“I pay $1,000 more a month per rent than when trump first took office, pay 20% more taxes but he did send me a one time check for $2000”
Also the news should compare it to similar promises like “free fertility treatment” that he abandoned as soon as the news cycle was over.
I’ll take it the way I took his stupid ass signed pandemic check. It’s not gonna make me hate the fucker any less, and I’m not stupid enough to think the amount of money the average person has lost on these fucking tariffs is less than $2000. So yeah, pay me to keep the same opinion of you and your policies, shithead.
I donated mine 50/50 to Planned Parenthood and SPLC. I don’t want his blood money.
I’m glad that’s a financial option for you
He says a lot of things. Meanwhile he’s gone out of his way repeatedly to try to starve millions of people.
Oh look… Little ManBaby is trying to buy friends.
It’ll probably work, too, if he does it a month before midterms.
Where exactly does that money come from? We end up paying more for it in the end due to inflation and it all trickles up as we spend it.
We need to raise taxes on the ruling class. There is no other way.
His only policy is to punish Democrats. I don’t know how he’ll do it but I absolutely guarantee he will do everything in his power to keep assistance out of the hands of people who won’t vote red.
Not happening
This orange fuck with his grossly transparent attempts to bribe the poors
The sad part is it’ll probably work.
Lolz, for them it’s $5,000.
$2000 a person won’t even offset the additional cost from the ACA subsidy reduction. So, a one-time check that would only cover several months of the recurring cost that he’s given us.
It also won’t make up for the small businesses that went under because their margins disappeared.
When you’re that rich, $2000 and $0 are basically the same. It’s a pittance for what they see as an underclass of poors.
for rich and poor alike. Its only relavent for people who are just getting by. If your staring down homelessness it will be delayed for a month. The government was shutdown for longer.
I think a lot of people don’t get this.
Imagine there’s something that you want–maybe a lot, maybe only a little. What that something is doesn’t matter.
What amount of money would you consider to be a negligible amount for you to spend to get that thing you want? Maybe it’s a few dollars or maybe it’s as little as 10 cents. For me, now that I am reasonably comfortable, anything that only costs about a dollar, I consider to basically be free.
This is how the wealthy view anything that is “only” in the thousands of dollars.
How about you use that money to pay SNAP instead?
Because he can say this and it won’t happen.
Well this wasn’t on my bingo card lol
Someone in the US care to explain?
He’s lying, but also between healthcare costs, tarrif-driven inflation, grocery costs, and now cutting off food to millions of Americans $2000 doesn’t mean shit.
Explanation: he’s lying.
Lol, bet he’s only saying this so when the Supreme Court comes down on his illegal tariffs he can say he was going to give us that money.
He won’t remember any of this by tomorrow, much less when or if SCrOTUS does anything.
I was just about to, but you interrupted me!
Technically, If the Supreme Court rules that his tariffs were illegal to begin with, he will be expected to reimburse everyone affected. That may be all this is. He’s just trying to spin it as spontaneous generosity, rather than a court ordered obligation.
remember his 1500% reduction in medications, we never heard of it again after he mentioned it.
The ultra wealthy already got their ‘tariff dividend’, in the form of not tax breaks and a discrete heads-up of when to play the market to real maybe amounts of extra wealth.
As for the rest, this offer is just more bullshit. If it does surface (which is very unlikely) there will be some strings attached. And it will in no way fully compensate most people for the turmoil caused by these tariffs.
