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“If the Republicans win, you win with us and get $5,000,” Trump bloviated during his rally-pretending-to-be-a-convention in Dallas last Wednesday.
He concluded, inevitably, with a branding exercise. The checks, he said, would “be called the Trump Dividend.”
Trump sounds like a carny salesman, not a president. That’s because he is a carny salesman. He’s shilling hard because the Republican Party he is selling for the midterms is about as appetizing as his patented explosive diarrhea lettuce.
Republican polling is currently hitting impressive new lows. Trump’s approval is hovering around 36 percent in the FiftyPlusOne aggregate, and the same site’s Senate forecast just hit a new high of a 61 percent likelihood of a Democratic flip. Gas prices are skyrocketing, inflation is spiking, the Iran war is somehow going worse than ever, and so is the trade war with Canada.
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Faced with a crisis of his own making, Trump does what he’s always done — he lies, then lies again, and then makes promises he has no intention of keeping. He will gladly pay you in January for a vote in November, even if he has no way to do so, and also may just change his mind anyway.
Other Republicans, the media, and the public have been more skeptical than usual of the latest claim; the Trump magic looks a bit less magic when the Iowa Senate race is tied and Republicans have a four percent chance of winning the House.
Still, more skeptical than usual is a depressingly low bar. Twelve years into our endless era of Trump, mainstream outlets remain reluctant to tell the public in stark terms that their president is an orange bag of gas and flimflam whose promises are as much of a hoax as his increasingly grotesque hair.
There will be no checks
In response to Trump’s promise, a number of outlets published credulous headlines which effectively served as free Republican propaganda.
“Trump promises $5,000 ‘dividend’ for US voters if Republicans win midterms,” the Financial Times gushed. “Trump promised $5,000 checks if Republicans win the midterms. How would that work?” PBS asked.
Stay tuned and they will also explain how Trump plans to coordinate the logistics of golden turds falling from his every orifice.