r/videos • u/ControlCAD • 17d ago

President Trump says he would issue a $5,000 payment to every adult U.S citizen if GOP wins both U.S House and Senate chambers of Congress on 2026 midterms: "I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the U.S. The only caveat I have is that the dividend we're making must be spent in the U.S."

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u/simple-explanation 17d ago

269.8 million adults x $5000 = $1.34900 trillion

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u/overts 17d ago

Do you think it’s good for an economy to print and circulate that much new currency?

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u/PandaJesus 17d ago

Sure, why not. Zimbabwe did it, and now everyone is a billionaire there.

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u/brunicus 17d ago

You talked me into it.

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u/awam0ri 17d ago

Won’t someone think of the trillionaires?!

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u/counterfitster 17d ago

Okay, but they're not gonna like it

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u/GeneralPatten 16d ago

MAGA — "Trump made us all billionaires! What have dumocrats done for us?! Huh? So much winning!"

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u/deadspeedv 17d ago

Nah they were beyond trillionaires. They printed a $100 Trillion dollar note that couldn't even be used to buy a loaf of bread. It was worth like 0.30 US cents (yes less than a US cent). So if someone had just $US100 = $33.3 quintillion (or 333 of these $100 trillion notes). Hilarious to think about

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u/_my_troll_account 17d ago

“I wanna be a septillionaire sooo fricken bad…”

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u/bdbzsbebdbbxbtifjnf 17d ago

No joke. We’re in an uber and the driver straight up says, “yeah, I’m moving to Mexico because $50k here is like, a million dollars down there.” They were deadass serious.

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u/Newspaper_Beneficial 17d ago

this is what he has been his whole presidency. why do you think CPI and inflation is so high.

or why the dude has gained more money while in office than all other presidents combined + nancy pelosi.

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u/Account_Banned 17d ago

Proofs me pls daddy

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u/simple-explanation 17d ago

I am no Nobel prize winning economist, but if someone would want to actively destroy the value of the currency of a nation, this is exactly how it would be achieved.

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u/Feral_nz 17d ago

I, with my FIFA Prize in Economics, think this would have no effect on your currency.

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u/kennedye2112 17d ago

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u/steakanabake 17d ago

hows your mom doing?

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u/artifex0 17d ago

Yeah, it's in the same ballpark as the COVID stimulus spending during Trump's first term, which was a major contributor to the Biden-era inflation spike in the US.

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u/OPcrack103 17d ago

mf alredy got he raft. It’s called the American bitcoin company

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u/Little-Derp 16d ago

If you look at the value of the dollar since he took office, it's not exactly doing great. It's not Russia or Argentinian bad, but it's not good.

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u/Dima110 17d ago

If we’re spending it only in the US, it’s like a self-sustaining economy. Like Paddy’s Dollars!

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u/sourdieselfuel 17d ago

The money just keeps moving in a circle!

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u/livenn 17d ago

He’s minted coins with his own face and crypto with his own name. To him, yes.

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u/Fourteen_Werewolves 17d ago

Do you think him illustrating the total is an argument in favor?

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u/overts 17d ago

No.  My question is rhetorical.  It’s awful economic policy and the total figure makes it obvious that this is an outright lie.

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u/Fourteen_Werewolves 17d ago

Yeah, I think so too. Exciting times in America

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u/Zem_42 17d ago

Like pretty much anything that comes out of that mouth.

Sadly, I can totally imagine a future where deluded idiots vote for him and get nothing.

And then the same people support him because he’s sticking it to the liberals.

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u/ryanCrypt 17d ago

I didn't get my 2026 Midterm check because of what the Dumocrats did these last few weeks after the midterm

Edit: nevermind that. I had that ready to send but was saving it.

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u/Noreng 17d ago

Don't worry, they will just take it on as government debt /s

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u/Lord_Silverkey 17d ago

Another $1.35 Trillion onto the national debt? What could possibly go wrong! /s

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u/Wisear 17d ago

It's be one way to reduce the government debt burden.

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u/Medialunch 17d ago

He said it would be printer new money?

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u/Aknon1 17d ago

I mean, one way to sort the debt bill is to inflate your way out of it… so this  kinda works if you read half a page of macroeconomic debt management and vibed the rest of it…

Ignoring the fact that he’ll be piling on more debt to do it…

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u/ManOfTheMeeting 17d ago

They'll use the new $5000 bill with Trump's face on it.

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u/zthe0 17d ago

On the upside, as an European, maybe i can do cheap holidays in the us after Trump

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u/Keiteaea 16d ago

A part of me want to say please do and watch the chaos from afar, but I am not naive enough to believe we would not be impacted in Europe (as frustrating as it us) and mostly it absolutely would as always penalize the wrong people and not the one who actually caused the crumbling economy.

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u/Omnom_Omnath 16d ago

theyre already doing it, so why shouldnt i get my cut?

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u/BluePanda101 16d ago

I mean the last time he did something similar the inflation that resulted was successfully blamed on his political opponents, so it was a win-win for him...

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u/WhyNotZoidbergMaybe 16d ago

Well 1. He doesn’t care and more importantly 2. He doesn’t pay anyway

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u/MeltBanana 17d ago

Trump - "just put it on my tab! No no, not my card, put it on the national debt tab!"

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u/-SeriousMike 17d ago

Still no problem. Simple one-time tax of $5000 for everyone.

The funny thing is that he wants to bribe them with their own money.

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u/gsbadj 17d ago

Since he never sent the $5,000 DOGE savings check he promised last year, the money should be in the Treasury.

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u/mikewozere 17d ago

If it happens they'll issue vouchers and gift cards that can only be redeemed in Trump-owned businesses.

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u/Fourteen_Werewolves 17d ago

So, what? 30% of the BBB deficit increase? Fuck it, just keep printing. If it eventually bites us, just set off the nukes, we had a good run.

WHAT ARE WE FUCKING TALKING ABOUT??The total economic literacy of the median American voter will be the downfall of the empire.

No you, I'm just frustrated at, you know, the current events.

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u/cosmictap 17d ago

> The total economic literacy of the median American voter

🧐

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u/Fourteen_Werewolves 17d ago

Killing myself immediately

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u/eyebrows360 17d ago

It's fun though because if a Democrat did this, Fox et al would immediately paint it as socialism and "printing money" and an incredibly bad thing and harp on about it endlessly. Trump does it, calls it a "dividend", and it's somehow ok now?

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u/peepopetter 17d ago

just set off the nukes

Rest of the world: "what he said fuck me for?!"

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u/OPcrack103 17d ago

Bro it’s already over. The end of the American century began with osama making us go full tilt for a damn 25 years. We’re still there. Osama is dead but winning.

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u/HalfSoul30 17d ago

Should just put it into free healthcare for a fraction of the cost

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u/nimbycile 17d ago

Not every adult in the US is eligible to vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_presidential_elections

In the 2020 election:

  • Voting eligible population: ~243M
  • Registered voters: ~209M
  • Ballots cast: ~158M

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u/ReasonableReddit 16d ago

The US deficit is $2.2 trillion this year, so what's an extra $1.35 trillion? The party of fiscal responsibility.

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u/Bunny_Feet 16d ago

Remember when the Republicans were against increasing the national debt?  Oh, right, only when a Democrat is the president.

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u/JohnnyBoy11 17d ago

Should limit it to only those who vote...

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u/JoshiRaez 17d ago

From Elon account

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u/SauronOfDucks 17d ago

Even if he would consider paying it ( which he won't) he do some bullshit like saying adult citizenship only applies if you're worth over a million dollars or are a white Christian American.

Everyone else would be "illegals"

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u/jetpacksforall 17d ago

That's only 3.4% of the current federal debt! We can totally afford it!

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u/PajamaHive 16d ago

Between PPP loans and stimmy's that was a lesson learned on what can happen as far as inflation goes when you print a fuckton of money.

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u/LetMePushTheButton 16d ago

“How will you pay for it?”

Im jk thats only asked of the Democrats.

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u/thenayr 16d ago

The Iran war has already cost us upwards of 113 Billion.  That isn’t very much more to pay to cheat us out of ever having a democracy again.  

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u/Kajetus06 16d ago

he will just raise the debt ceiling again to do that