Donald Trump is ramping up his efforts to use taxpayer money and resources to help Republicans win the 2026 midterm elections.
And it’s not at all subtle.
At last month’s Republican midterm convention, he severely pushed the envelope by promising every adult US citizen $5,000 if Republicans hold both the House and the Senate. That was already stunning — to offer voters money for a specific outcome. But Trump has only continued pushing the envelope since then.
Over the last 10 days, he has run more than a dozen different government-funded ads that are geared toward promoting himself and his supposed accomplishments.
In his defense, he probably does think he’s being super subtle.
Don’t forget, this is a guy who brags about his IQ… And his dementia tests which he obviously took for fun
Well, no one seems to be able to do anything about it so I guess this is the new reality.
Even if he paid out 5K, that would not offset the cost of everything he’s done. For the average household, it’s estimated that he’s cost thousands just in tariffs ~ $3500 so far. Let’s say there are two adults in that household and they get 10K. Let’s assume it’s taxed 10% at federal level and state takes nothing, they’d get 9K.
They continue to pay tariffs the rest of his failed term and pay enormous cost of everything else thanks to inflation and his war with Iran. That 9K would easily be erased.
This pisses me off. Vote buying is illegal under law 18 USC 597. This guy should be in jail for the billionth time.
This isn’t right v left. This is efforts to cheat vs efforts to keep the US healthy.
(And it’s working.)
By now he must’ve (correctly) deduced that his approval will never really go lower than ~30% because that 30% doesn’t vote (or live) rationally. He quite literally took tens of thousands from both people who could barely afford it and those who could really not afford it - AND THEY WOULD STILL VOTE FOR HIM.
He’s bribing them with pennies on every dollar he steals and they suck his ass and worship his tiny dick for it.
Hey hey hey, he’s one of the most evil people to walk the earth but not because of his tiny dick.
The people who will be bought don’t understand how insulting it is for him to buy them, because they’re stupid
He also just renewed his Elongated Muskrat subscription.
I got a random $50 on paypal yesterday from “President Trump’s FTC” I guess because I had 1 free month of prime in like 2018. Since when has anything like that bothered putting the president’s name on it? I couldn’t even find anyone else talking about this online other than articles about the settlement specifying that some people will receive up to $200, and I expect every single payout will have that dipshit’s name on it somewhere.
You mean the faux socialism they have warned us about all this year is coming from Republicans?
