Trump vows to give $2,000 to almost everyone in the US – here’s who won’t be eligible

Donald Trump is known for making promises that seem too good to be true. Yet even by his lofty standards the recent pledge to give tens of millions of Americans a $2,000 dividend from what he claimed was tariff revenue is eyebrow-raising.

The long and short of it is that Trump says the implementation of his tariff scheme has worked so spectacularly well that the US government has enough spare money to hand out a surprise bonus to half the population.

“A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday.Continue reading…

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