Trump and Vance’s Oval Office announcement turned into a frightening rage spiral
www.independent.co.uk
This was already a strange policy. But then the anger in the room turned personal and at times genuinely frightening, writes Holly Baxter

Donald Trump has found a new way to make America great again: paying people to become professional snitches.

On Tuesday, the president and JD Vance unveiled a $25 million fraud whistleblower fund, under which Americans who provide tips leading to successful prosecutions would receive large financial rewards. Basically, you can rat on your enemies to the government for cash now — and, Trump added, he will be the personal arbiter on whether the fraud is real and how much money you get.

Just think of it as a big reality TV show, like when Oprah gives out the cars except it’s that guy at work you once fell out with and you get to send him to jail.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    “The president always loses, whatever the reason, the midterms,” said Trump. “Great presidents, lousy presidents. Oz,is there a reason you can think of, medically?” Oz laughed weakly at that, and the president continued: “I do say this: When I was on the ticket — when I ran, we won everything. When I don’t run, people don’t show up to vote. If I could get my voters to get out to vote… we’d win in a landslide.”

    People are gonna show up and vote in midterms…

    Republicans tho…

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      12 hours ago

      Good grief, he IS on the fucking ticket! And that’s why he’s polling so badly.

      I guess one silver lining for him: at this rate he’s going to get the record for the biggliest midterms loss in history. Given how much he likes holding records and having stuff named after him, this is an achievement of sorts.