Desperate Trump Offers Brazen Cash Bribe in Bonkers Speech
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President Donald Trump has offered a hefty cash bonus to all American adults in a desperate attempt to retain his grip on Congress in the midterm elections.
At Wednesday’s Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Trump, 80, spoke for 106 minutes, finishing just before 11 p.m.
During the rambling speech, the president unveiled his desperate cash splash. He pledged to give $5,000 to every adult in the U.S. if Republicans can retain their House and Senate majorities on Nov. 3
U.S. President Donald Trump is flashing mythical money around again. Callaghan O'Hare/REUTERS
“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 said, as MAGA supporters cheered.
Trump claimed his concept was “very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution will do to its shareholders.”
Branding the payout “Trump dividends,” he claimed his administration can afford the lavish payout “because we’ve done so well and because our country is making so much money.” He added, “Only I can make this promise to you.”
Trump also stated that “only caveat” he had on the handout was that the $5,000 could only be spent inside the U.S., without stating how that would be policed, or any other further details on the funds.
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives on stage at the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, U.S., September 9, 2026. Evan Vucci/REUTERS
“We don’t want you going to Canada to spend the money,” Trump said. “We don’t want you going to China, to Germany.”
“If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000,” the president said, adding “Congratulations.”
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.”
Vance called the $5,000 “fundamentally a dividend for American workers” and said it could be funded by revenues raised by U.S. tariffs.
“What the president is just saying... to the American people is if you keep us in power and allow us to continue to do these things, then you’re gonna share in some of the benefit of this incredible wealth we’re creating,” the vice president said on Fox News.
“I don’t think it’s a controversial idea,” Vance added. “It’s actually the president of the United States saying ‘We’re all working together, we’re all on the same team, and if we continue to create wealth, that wealth is going to go back to the American people’.”
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) applaud during the Republican National Midterm Convention in Dallas, Texas, U.S., September 9, 2026. Brian Snyder/REUTERS
Trump compared the payout to his December 2025 announcement of a $1,776 dividend to members of the military, which happened after a military housing stipend had already been approved by Congress, for which he took credit .
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
DNC Rapid Response director Kendall Witmer called out Trump’s latest election stunt.
“Donald Trump and Republicans are once again offering empty promises to Americans,” Witmer said in a statement. “The only people reaping the benefits of Trump’s economy are himself, his family, and his ultra-rich elite donors. Meanwhile, working families get nothing except sky-high receipts at the grocery store and the pump, unaffordable healthcare premiums, and wages that aren’t keeping up with inflation.”
It is not the first time Trump has waved the concept of free cash in front of Americans during his second term as president.
In February 2025, Trump endorsed an idea initially launched on social media by Azoria CEO James Fishback and backed by Elon Musk. It suggested that if Musk could cut $2 trillion in spending as part of DOGE, one-fifth of the savings could be distributed to taxpaying households in checks of around $5,000.
Musk, who served as an adviser to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced he would leave his role in the Trump administration to refocus on his businesses. Kevin Dietsch/Kevin Dietsch, Getty Images
DOGE shut down on July 4 last year, with only around $110 billion in cuts reported.
Last November, Trump promised that a tariff dividend check “of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” without clarifying who would be eligible.
When asked by NBC about the $2,000 checks in February, Trump said, “I’m looking at it very seriously. I’m the only one can do it because I’m takin’ in hundreds of billions of dollars of money from tariffs.”
MSNOW reported in August that the $2,000 proposal still lacks congressional approval or the funds to facilitate the payouts.
Even Fox News, reporting from Dallas on Wednesday, said the previous $2,000 checks Trump promised “have so far not materialized.”
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The total buffoonery is beyond words at this point.
They're calling their convention Trump-Is-A-Loozer.
I enjoyed watching the video of trump leading the crowd in a loyalty pledge to himself, much like his hero required when the end of the 3rd reich was imminent ...
Although I certainly doubt that anyone will ever get to see that bribe, IMO he owes it to Canadians as well, because of the harm he is causing them as well as those for whom he is the "leader". . .
He will give out the money after Canada becomes the fifty-first state.
LOL. Well, as you know, that will never happen.
Like everything "Dirty Diaper Donnie" does, it is all bull shat. That is why his DIAPER is constantly filled.
I'm still waiting for the $2000 he promised from the tariffs and $5000 from DOGE.
his dumbass supporters might as well write themselves checks for that $12K and then try to deposit them ...
You mean the MAGA ones that still believe him?
if I felt the desire or inclination, I'd try to instigate some sort of organized trump style pushback on maga media that would state something to the effect of where's my promised $2K tariff rebate check, and where's my promised $5K doge savings check, and I won't even vote this year unless I get them before election day, or if I didn't get all the promised money before election day, I'd vote a straight democrat ticket.
Oh, the money is coming in the Year 2525, or so I have been told by one of Trump's confidants, JESUS!
POS/POTUS upped the ante overnight with the desperately demented tweet of an additional $500 ACA rebate ...
Is there no end to this demented criminal? FUGAZI this POS every moment of every day, until he returns to SATAN'S ARMS!
Weren't we already promised checks from tarrifs?
And DOGE checks as well.
Oh, yes, MrFrost, that money will come too, as soon as "Dirty Diaper Donnie" can convert his diaper content to GOLD.
He may as well just claim he already sent everyone a $5k tariff check. Wouldn’t be any less true than anything else that comes out of his Big Mac hole. Fuck it, make it $10k.
Now, now, Mr. Hal A. Lujah, you know that "Dirty Diaper Donnie" always delivers when his diaper overflows.
It's the conversion from "BULL SHAT" to GOLD BONDS. Be patient, Donnie always changes his diaper multiple times during the day and at night.
Have you forgotten, "Donnie is a GENI-ARSE", that was born to sling it, every day, every minute of the day, only to help the American people who are dumb!
In this decade, that means REPUBLICANS!
the companies that collected those tariffs from US taxpayer's purchases got the refunds ...
Well, HELLS BELLS, that ain't right! And, to think, "Donnie is a CHRISTIAN"!
He is the leader of Reverend Oral Fleece's church, "HOW BIG IS YOUR WALLET, HOW SMALL IS YOUR BRAIN"?
Located in Mildew, Oh-Ho-Ho, where there are no jobs, not even BLOW JOBS!
Yes, evil one, that is true, but Trump is NOT TRUE about anything.
"Ain't that a SHAME"?
I HOPE YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump has as much intention of giving everyone $5000 as he does of paying his fair share of taxes.
He’ll make it happen as soon as he’s not under audit.
iran will pay for it ...
That.
Or after the war is over. (Which could happen at any minute now!!!)
Whenever you write, post, or telepathically share your WISDOWN, we pay
ATTENTION to you, "TROUT GIGGLES". That is why we LOVE YOU!
(And your comments, of course).
It is always a JOY, girl. You knock them dead!
You and your asshat cronies have proven over and over that you are not working with the American people!!! Do you honestly believe we are ALL going to fall for that??? Go back to hillbilly heaven, asswipe and go do something you're trained for. Which is nothing
WOW, girl, you can slap that ORANGE, FAT PIG down faster than swatting a stupid fly!
Republicans already control the House and Senate. Where's the $$$?
Ted Lieu promised $10,000, a pony and ice cream for life if the Dems flip the House and Senate,
yogurt and water ice optional.
Deal!
it's not a bribe, it's an incompetence rebate ...
FUGAZI, the criminals in the HOUSE & Senate!
And he yet again broke the law:
it's not criminal, it's his constitutional right to be ignorant and incompetent ... /s
The political reality of the USA right now is surreal.
it's basically his business model on a national scale. promise the moon and stars, loot the economy for personal gain, bankrupt the whistle blowers and his creditors, and let the taxpayers pick up the tab while he walks away free and clear ...
Sounds familiar!
Sure you will, and "Dirty Diaper Donnie" will become the
"NEW JESUS"!
Thank you, thank you! This CORRUPTION and assault on our people and the CONSTITUTION must end with TRUMP'S end, and that means N O W!
Very good question. The answer is that those Americans are currently scared shitless of Trumps base made up mostly of poorly educated rightwing conservative Christo-fascists that are holding our country hostage and ignoring almost daily law breaking and incompetence from this clearly criminal President.
Completely agree, but rational patriotic Americans have been stopped by Trumps base of ignorant pieces of shit that are so fucking stupid they actually believe the government was already MORE corrupt than Donald, so anything their dear Leader does is just payback for whatever crimes they believe Democrats committed even though 95% of the 'crimes' they believe Democrats and some fantasy 'deep state' are guilty of are complete bullshit conspiracy theories. And so here we are.
And they are apparently enough to drive the craven GOPTRUMP Congress to submit to Trump.
Maybe, maybe not. We, the People of the United States of America, must stand up to "Dirty Diaper Donnie" and shut his PIE-HOE down for good!
“…bullshit conspiracy theories…”
….posing as ‘policy’ in the never ending self-aggrandizing, dysfunctional, hostile world created by a would be authoritarian and condoned by the weak, the wealthy, and the whiny.
The quotations that Dismayed Patriot posted and replied to were from a comment I had posted and then self-deleted because I decided it was too controversial to remain. What induced me to post it was that although I never wanted to watch the horror of the movie United 93 again, I did to help stir my feelings about 9/11, due to its 25th anniversary. What I saw was American men displaying the tremendous courage of chancing sacrificing their own lives in an attempt to overcome the terrorists who had hijacked the airplane. I was using that as an example of what I hoped that there would be corregous Americans who would not continue to acquiesce to the insanity of their leader and do whatever it takes to put an end to his demolishing the damage he was doing not only to the nation, but to the whole world. Article 25 would have been the answer, but what were the reasons it was not invoked? Perhaps it was just a lack of courage on the part of those who were qualified to invoke it.
I didn't find them controversial at all, and despite some of our disagreements I find your insight and perspective as a Jewish Canadian living in China unique and refreshing.
Thank you DP. Perhaps I was just being a little too sensitive after having just recently been smacked down for my personal feelings based upon my personal life exeriences, smacked down by those who sitting in the comfort of their living rooms were inundated by the prejudiced misinformation and exaggertions spread by the biased media. But then perhaps I had been encouraged by the eyewitness accounts of a hightly respected observer, Col. Richard Kemp.
I think many are feeling attacked of late for holding to an opinion that is found unsavory by one group or another. But which group isn't hated by someone else these days? And you're right, the media on both sides lean into their exaggerations where the mantra "if it bleeds, it leads" reigns king which causes a 'death by a thousand cuts' for truth and reality as it's regularly carved into neat little ice sculptures of partisan perspective. Perhaps all we can do is strive to grow thicker skin and wear darker glasses.
No, we, as the PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY, must stand up to this POS and flush him down the toilet for posterity's sake.
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Why wait? Do it now. Better yet, pay down the debt.
Even people who don’t believe this new lie will still believe his promise to pay stay-at-home moms.
When will people learn that he never pays anyone. Why will no one call this guy a psychopathic liar to his face?
Yes, if we actually had this money the absolute best use would be to pay down the debt.
But, of course, we do not have this money. If Trump were to be true to his promise (never gonna happen) it would put us another $1.2T in debt. That influx of cash will also drive inflation higher and bring on even higher interest rates.
Trump is a moron. Why does anyone listen to him?
... at this point, so are his supporters.
None of which seem to be here trying to spin/justify this. Unspinable?
they're all out waiting by their mailboxes ...
LOL!!!
Millions of Americans readily do, however, it is also the corrupt elected officials in the Republican Party who, out of fear or stupidity, fail their oath of office.
Shakespeare, who had Juliet say: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet." would herein say: "What's in a name? That which we call a bribe. By any other name would smell as foul."
Trump says it's a dividend? Gertrude Stein would say: "A bribe is a bribe is a bribe"
That's enough English literature for now.
Thanks, it is a delightful, poetic one!
The man who never paid his contractors is going to give away 1.4 TRILLION dollars to the American people? Excuse me...
.
.
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's because it isn't his money, it's the government's money that belongs to the people already..
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But it SHOULD be for them, they're the ones who paid that money as extra cost on the imported goods they bought.
And if he were to actually send out checks for 5k....guess what? You have to pay taxes on it...AGAIN.
maga economics 101
Lol...whoever handles your money would like to have a word with you if think you are going to turn down money because you have to pay taxes on it (and only 60% of Americans would actually pay tax on it)
POS/POTUS is up to $12.5K in promises this term. there isn't ever going to be any money to turn down ...
Never said anything even close to that. But yes, you would have to pay taxes on it. That's called, "reality".
there won't be anything to pay taxes on, because he won't be giving away any money ...
Didn't know Obama was involved in this. BTW, you know damn well that Obama never pays his bills/debts. Hell, his "library" construction workers are suing him for their pay - which they won't get.
Asked ChatGPT to fact check your claim:
Still waiting for Trump’s excuse why there has been zero dividends issued as previously promised, but yeah let’s call Obama the real problem because a tiny percentage of construction costs for a select few contractors involved in his library are stuck in normal contract negotiations. Possibly the most desperate whataboutism I’ve seen here in defense of the worst leader in US history.
Sorry but ChatGPT is not a reliable source.
Lame. And you, by extension, are also claiming that FactCheck.org is also unreliable as it was used as a reference and links were included.
If something shows you to be wrong, that something is 'unreliable', eh?
Demonstrate how the ChatGPT analysis is wrong. If you cannot do that (and you clearly cannot), then your lame retort is simply bullshit.
Prove it wrong.
Also, deflection and false accusations against Obama aren't a valid defense of Trump.
Didn't know Obama was still living rent free in right wingers heads.
going from the cotton fields to the oval office in 150+ years is moving a bit too fast for some goobers ...
a comment that demonstrates willful ignorance ...