Trump promises $2,000 payments to most Americans during Sunday morning Truth Social posting spree
Source: Independent
President Donald Trump promised to pay almost all Americans $2,000 as he touts his tariff plan in a Truth Social posting spree.
As part of his multi-post rant touting tariffs, the president promised: A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.
Its not immediately clear when that payment would come or who qualifies as high income. The president mentioned no other details about the payment.
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People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401ks are Highest EVER, Trump wrote Sunday morning.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-dividend-payment-truth-social-b2861700.html
Clouds Passing
(6,540 posts)DemMedic
(545 posts)What a Sc#mb@g
bucolic_frolic
(53,259 posts)GreenWave
(12,011 posts)gab13by13
(30,676 posts)and he must refund the money, he has an excuse for why the money is gone. I guarantee he stole most of the tariff money.
SunSeeker
(57,262 posts)Putting it in an account that only he has access to and then it disappears like MAGIC!
SunSeeker
(57,262 posts)C_U_L8R
(48,546 posts)Daring them to take away $2000 from every family. It's a dumb bluff. No wonder this clown bankrupted casinos (among many other things).
Nigrum Cattus
(1,100 posts)280,000,000 adults
presume 80% would qualify by income
that's 224,000,000 x $2,000 = $448,000,000,000
448 Billion
that ain't gunna happen
underpants
(193,912 posts)but I get what you chose.
Basically 1/2 a trillion dollars. Your right. No way.
Grins
(9,100 posts)And what happens a year later? Another paltry $2,000? From Republicans?
Ontheroad
(25 posts)I'd rather we spent it on that.
Wiz Imp
(8,152 posts)So he wants to pay out 2 1/2 times as much money as has been taken in. This is strictly trying to buy future votes, while exploding the debt even further.
Hugin
(37,136 posts)(Or is that Trumpbait?) he doesnt even have to cough up a penny (if the mint even made them anymore.)
Bengus81
(9,584 posts)Like his concept of a plan for a new ACA this will NEVER happen either..........
karynnj
(60,682 posts)better off with legislation that continued the Medicaid expansion and SNAP and other benefits.
Anyone who was on Medicaid and lost it through his bill, will need more than $2000 this year to be where they were at before he took office. For those on ACA, they will experience a big increase in costs due to the need to consider a larger amount of people without insurance at hospitals in their rates in conjunction with losing the extended subsidy that helped pay for it.
This is before considering the higher prices paid because of the taxes. Even with his attacks on the BLS, which always calculated government statistics, it is clear there IS inflation.
He should remember in 2024, saying that the government was succeeding in bringing down inflation, was not enough even as it was true. People saw that prices were higher than in 2020 during the worst of Covid.
The average SNAP household received a monthly benefit of $332. That works out to $3984 per year.
The average annual increase in Health Insurance premiums for those who currently receive the subsidies is $1016. However for many, the increase would be significantly higher than that. For example:
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See appendix tables 1 & 2 at the following link:
https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/health-insurance-premium-spikes-imminent-as-tax-credit-enhancements-set-to-expire
paleotn
(21,175 posts)Simple math. Multiply 245 million Americans (340 million residents, less foreign nationals and "high income" people) X $2,000. That's hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars. Even if you assume it's $2K per household, that's still over a hundred BILLION dollars. The man is out of his fucking mind.
karynnj
(60,682 posts)underpants
(193,912 posts)The announcement comes days after Trump attended a lavish dinner party at Mar-a-Lago as the longest-ever government shutdown drags on. As many Americans turn to food banks during the shutdown, the event Trump attended featured a three-course menu of beef filet, truffle dauphinoise, pan-seared scallops and a trio of desserts, including Trump chocolate cake.
Henry203
(803 posts)Irish_Dem
(77,969 posts)KPN
(17,016 posts)Hugin
(37,136 posts)From everyday MAGAts, if they appeared in the shopping carts of SNAP recipients or Federal employees.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,879 posts)are just as stupid.
Fuel prices in my area have increased by .46 cents in the last 6 days, grocery prices and medical costs are increasing by the day, if not by the hour, Americans are going hungry, starting to lose their homes, cars, etc.
This POS needs to be impeached in the House, which ain't going to happen because that worthless MAGAt pedophile protector, M. Johnson, is sucking Been A Dick Donalds dick and doing his bidding, and tried, convicted and removed from power in the Senate, but, again, that won't happen because the repigs have a spine of Jello and are afraid of getting on the wrong side of this man.
MissouriDem47
(328 posts)Why would anyone with more than 2 brain cells believe anything he says?
Polybius
(21,175 posts)Republicans might think it'll help them. It won't.
BOSSHOG
(44,136 posts)mwmisses4289
(2,782 posts)markie
(23,757 posts)just keeps getting more stupid every day
Morons
Are
Governing
America
Vinca
(53,027 posts)turbinetree
(26,771 posts)everyone $2000 a day 7 days a week or $60,000.00 a month per person you know 330 plus million people in the country. Which is about 19 billion a month..............how's about that nonsense that I just spewed since it's just like yours...........
Wiz Imp
(8,152 posts)(which is actually around 340 million), would be $20 Trillion per month, not $19 billion.
turbinetree
(26,771 posts)2000 per day x 330 million people x 30 days = $19, 800, 000.00 billion per month...........my calculator does not go into trillions............fuzzy math...........
and a
to you thank you for the correction..............
ananda
(33,991 posts)He must think most people live there and would
be conned into liking it.
Maybe a lot of them do, but that many? I don't
think so.
ashredux
(2,807 posts)Hes offering a bribe, and its damn cheap offer that
he needs to get to seven figures for hes gonna get my attention.
Its crazy. Its just crazy.
YodaMom2
(136 posts)And its money the American people paid anyway (though he still insists other countries pay it
because hes stupid).
But dont discount the effect it would have if he was able to finagle some kind of payment to Americans. Hed insist that *his name* appear on the check, just as he did with that $200 check during his first term. This worked with a lot of people - I know of more than a few who actually voted for him in 2024 because he gave them money, and none those other politicians gave them anything. These folks truly believed he was giving them HIS OWN MONEY.
twodogsbarking
(16,760 posts)mwmisses4289
(2,782 posts)No, two months...no, two years...okay, it's a concept of a plan that'll happen in two weeks!
twodogsbarking
(16,760 posts)durablend
(8,773 posts)Javaman
(64,914 posts)He tries to bribe with lies
Maninacan
(190 posts)My house could use 30k a year for insurance and the deductible.
twodogsbarking
(16,760 posts)If you only live two months.
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Bristlecone
(10,958 posts)The checks in the mail!
hay rick
(9,202 posts)Gore1FL
(22,745 posts)pandr32
(13,631 posts)He is very unpopular and needs to feel special so he is gaslighting with a promised gift. My ex used to do this whenever he hit uncomfortable status. He promised the kids and I trips that never happened, but in that moment he felt like Santa. He coasted on the hope for a while, and so did we.
Donold needs some love and some more time to plunder our nation.
stollen
(1,008 posts)Read no further.
JoseBalow
(8,924 posts)If there was money he could give away, he'd look for a way to funnel it to himself. Is there anyone dumb enough to actually believe otherwise?
progree
(12,548 posts)in the last 3 months.
It's not comforting to me at all that the last 3 months have averaged 3.6% (annualized) for both the CPI and the core CPI. The 3 month average is my favorite gauge of RECENT inflation. The 1 month number can be dismissed as a "one off", while the 12 month average (year-over-year) has too much old data in it to be considered a good measure of RECENT inflation -- half the months are March 2025 or older, for example. Four of the months are Biden-era months.
Regular CPI

More graphs at: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3552722
News report from the source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
CPI data series: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0
CORE CPI data series: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0L1E
paleotn
(21,175 posts)340.1 million people in the US. Assume 10% are foreign nationals and ineligible. A very high figure, but go with it. That leaves 306 million US citizens. Assume 20% are "high earners" and ineligible. Probably a high figure as well. 245 million Americans are eligible X $2,000 each = ~ $490 BILLION DOLLARS! Crazy. By household perhaps? Assuming 3 persons per household average, that's ~$163 BILLION DOLLARS.
The man is fucking nuts. Lock his crazy ass up.
Scrivener7
(57,827 posts)bluestarone
(20,783 posts)That $2000 is going to the billionaires i'm sure. He just got confused again.
lonely bird
(2,617 posts)He is a complete idiot.
C_U_L8R
(48,546 posts)Robbing Americans blind through tariffs and tossing out table scraps so every house gets a Trump-embossed pittance?
And he expects the country to be grateful? Fuck off, you crook. Just fuck off.
Prairie Gates
(6,828 posts)the substance of which will be forgotten in a week by all but the hardcore MAGAs, who will be absolutely sure that it happened.
orangecrush
(27,582 posts)mahina
(20,153 posts)Not
bluestarone
(20,783 posts)I do worry if Americans are that stupid.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,486 posts)This advice is worth every penny you paid for it!
RANDYWILDMAN
(3,114 posts)righteous bucks, but like Spicoli saving Brooke shields it was a dream !
Besides the 7k is only adding to the debt Trump has already added to by giving bigger than 7k tax breaks to people with seven figures in their net worth!