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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(131,677 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:50 PM 3 hrs ago

Trump says national debt is 'peanuts' and his tariff income will pay everyone a $2,000 dividend too--but the math doesn't

Donald Trump has made some big promises about his tariff regime. It will help pay down the national debt, he has said, and the scheme is also so wildly successful that it will pay dividends—literally—to the American people.

But the math doesn’t quite add up.

In his cabinet meeting Tuesday, President Trump told his team and the media: “We’re going to be giving back refunds out of the tariffs because we’ve taken in literally trillions of dollars, and we’re going to be giving a nice dividend to the people, in addition to reducing debt. As you know, I inherited a lot of debt, but it’s peanuts compared to the kind of numbers we’re talking about.

“So we’re going to be making a dividend to the people and additionally we’re going to be able to reduce debt, and as time goes by over the next two, three, four years, those numbers are going to go up.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-national-debt-peanuts-160506203.html

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Trump says national debt is 'peanuts' and his tariff income will pay everyone a $2,000 dividend too--but the math doesn't (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 3 hrs ago OP
Sure he will. Right after he walks on the water in Lake Galilee. Jacson6 3 hrs ago #1
Why would anyone in their right mind still believe the Degenerate knows anything about anything? Diamond_Dog 3 hrs ago #2
I ask myself the same thing Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 3 hrs ago #3
Lol UpInArms 3 hrs ago #4

Diamond_Dog

(39,418 posts)
2. Why would anyone in their right mind still believe the Degenerate knows anything about anything?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 08:56 PM
3 hrs ago

Go back to sleep, Rip Van Winkle.

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