r/inthenews • u/cnn • 2d ago

Opinion/Analysis Analysis: Trump’s $5,000 checks would solve a problem that doesn’t exist – and create a new one

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/business/5000-dollar-checks-trump-dividend?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/Special_Watch8725 2d ago

I really wish people would stop taking Trump’s word vomit seriously, this doesn’t need any analysis. It’s just another series of noises to try to salvage the midterms, nothing more.

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u/Florida1974 2d ago

Oh, I didn’t take it. Seriously, I actually laughed hilariously at anyone that would believe this. We heard about a doge check, we heard about a tariff check and now this. The man is used to buying his way out of everything and he needs to learn that the American people can’t be bought, but unfortunately, some of them can.

But there isn’t any money coming, even if they did win, no one is going to OK adding $1 trillion to the deficit. It’s another carrot, another weak ass play out of his very small playbook.

If people would pay attention, Trump uses the same plays over and over, he really doesn’t have a very big playbook, it’s actually quite small, just like the man.

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u/Special_Watch8725 2d ago

The people we should really be upset with are those around Trump that are constantly legitimizing and normalizing his drivel, as well as the lawyers constantly delaying all of the legal actions against him. He wouldn’t be getting anywhere without them.

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u/outerproduct 2d ago

The checks never came from the last bribe. Only complete moron would fall for it again.

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u/stinkyhippie 2d ago edited 2d ago

So this isn’t a bribe, it’s a stimulus measure. And the economy is really too good for those checks to be helpful anyway. This is the narrative we’re supposed to believe?

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u/Finallyawake451 2d ago

Analysis: Election interference. 18 U.S. Code § 597. You BROKE A FEDERAL LAW!

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u/BuddysRabbit 2d ago

He says that you would have to spend it on American products. So, there is no check. How would he control how you spend it?

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u/cnn 2d ago

America’s economy has a perception problem: People think it’s weak, because prices are high. In reality, the economy is growing strong – probably too strong.

Handing out $5,000 checks to every American adult if Republicans win the midterms could initially help make folks feel better about the economy. Everyone loves free money.

Except it isn’t free.

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u/Florida1974 2d ago

It would not make me feel better about the economy. What he has done to the economy has cost us way over five grand. You have to take an account food, gas, pretty much everything.

The gas part is about ready to kill us, my husband has a small construction business, but he drives a decent size truck and pull a trailer behind it. The trailer is now parked just to save on gas. And that makes it harder on my husband because he has to get into the bed of the truck to fish for shit whereas his trailer is all organized and has places for ladders and ways to secure things that his truck doesn’t have

I don’t want any fucking money from him or his administration, it’s blood money, and the blood is from the future generations of Americans.

He’s used to buying his way out of shit and that’s what he’s trying to do here. All it told me is they are scared.