President Trump announces $2,000 tariff dividend for almost everyone in America

notthebee.com ^ | Nov 9, 2025 | Commodore Vanderbilt

[V_TWIN]

While Trump is arguing for his levying of tariffs at the Supreme Court level, the President has decided what he wants to do with that money in the mean time.

This morning, President Trump announced a $2,000 dividend for all Americans from the tariff surplus. - "People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS! We are now the Richest, Most Respected Country In the World, With Almost No Inflation, and A Record Stock Market Price. 401k's are Highest EVER. We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion. Record Investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place. A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone."

[OKSooner]

I think Amy’s kinda cute, myself...

[SomeCallMeTim]

I live Trump, but he’s got to STOP saying “there’s no inflation”. It makes him seem OUT of touch, and his brand is based on being IN touch.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Yes! Yes, and Yes!!

[ChessExpert]

My preference would be to give it to all taxpayers. That seems simple. I hope he will restrict this to American citizens - even in blue states and very blue cities.

For a time, we will be impacted by reducing the number of cheap illegal immigrant workers. For a time, we will be impacted by higher prices on imports. Why not soften the blows by sharing tariff revenues? People need to see real positive consequences soon.

American employment (then wages) should start to go up when there are fewer (or no) illegal immigrants. Also, in-sourcing production should increase jobs (then wages). However, these positive changes may take time.

Blowing up a bridge is quick and exciting and elicits applause. Building a bridge is slow and laborious and disruptions lead to a lot of grumbling. You need some way to keep people on board as you perform constructive change.

[DownInFlames]

No. First of all it’s taxable, second, it should be used to pay down the debt.

[Kleon]

A Record Stock Market Price

Doesn't do me much good when all my money is in DJT stock, and every morning is a deflating experience watching it go down. I keep telling myself that I haven't lost anything until I decide to sell, but at this point I'm going to need to sell everything just to survive.

[Pirate Ragnar]

It is the government spending that causes inflation not the people spending which boosts the economy.

[avital2]

if it helps win midterms to allow for longer period of R program adoption, i don’t consider it bad financially.

[Night Hides Not]

The negative anti Trump assholes that make Free Republic a negative place MAKE IT HARD TO CONTRIBUTE. You are one among many.

And your personal attacks and profanity on those who disagree with you don't help matters, either.

[albie]

So somebody who entered the work force a year ago, gets $2000 along with the person who’s worked and paid taxes for 40 years? A 22 year old vs a 55 year old?

[ChessExpert]

“I’m just not a fan of buying votes...and this smells like it.”

That is fair enough but ...

Democrats used to love the word “comprehensive.” It suggested that everything was thought through (Not!). It also suggested many changes, often off setting.

Trump isn’t using the word “comprehensive” as far as I know. However, in his own way he is doing it. Some prices go up because of tariffs - but you get tariff revenue. Some prices go up due to a shortage of cheap illegal workers - but Americans get those jobs. There are a lot of moving parts.

It seems clear to me that Trump is a patriot.

Liberals mostly care about themselves. Beyond that, they might prefer their Mexican cleaner, or some random foreign Muslim, to American citizens living in another state.

[Salman]

I'll believe it when I see the money.

Not that my support of Trump is contingent on it of course.

[Kleon]

“So somebody who entered the work force a year ago, gets $2000 along with the person who’s worked and paid taxes for 40 years? A 22 year old vs a 55 year old?”

That’s how socialism works, yes.

[Celerity]

My friend once said “.. they’re spending money like it’s free”

Prolific, really. The government and economists KNOW the dollar isn’t with anything. It’s a dead man walking.

The usual consumer knows it will buy things that they need. They know the have to work for it. But we also need to know that the fact or income hasn’t improved in 30 years means the value of our labor is nothing, and the value of stuff is rising.

But the value of the dollar? Look no further than the ones who make it, the ones who understand it. It’s practically worthless.

[crusty old prospector]

I was promised a pony. I want my pony.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Supply and demand determine prices in the free market.

So if supply remains the same, but demand goes up, (because people have more money) that drives up prices which is inflation.

Which is why the fed raises interest rates when inflation is too high, it takes money out of the economy which deduces demand which drives down prices.

[volare737]

Agreed. For once, I hope the democrats stop it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, all in all, it IS our money. But p*ssing it away doesn’t solve anything, either. Grrrr!

[Ezekiel]

There are now a few threads ongoing about this topic, about 2000.

Opinions are divided. "Our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion" is certainly nothing to sneeze at. If people think my posts are "TL DR", how about 37 trillion dollar bills lined up? See, it could be worse.

Perhaps the purpose is to get Americans in a festive mood for Christmas, into the spirit of giving, and receiving.

More of interest to me (no pun intended but there it is), is that

"2000" is the number appearing on the radar all of a sudden, in the context of 37 trillion in debt, and of giving.

2000 is rather interesting, Biblically and Judaically, especially for where it all began (the giving, of the Torah).

It's not just about this passage:

Joshua 3

1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;
3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.

Or about the swine (pork is not kosher)...

Mark 5

11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.

But also,

United States of America [אַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית שֶׁל אָמֵרִיקָה]

= 2000

And the Hebrew abbreviation for the USA/US -- ארה"ב -- is for the first two letters of each word "אַרְצוֹת הַבְּרִית", which would be the same for creating an abbreviation for "Ark of the Covenant", אֲרוֹן הַבּרִית.

But back to the 2,000 as some kind of financial gamble, a big bet...

Hebrew letters also represent 1000x their regular value when written with a little geresh (apostrophe-like mark), such as in year dates.

The letter bet (meaning "house") -- ב -- has the value of 2.

The letter bet with a geresh -- 'ב -- represents 2000.

The Torah literally begins with a big bet, "in the beginning" (some might even catch a Baseball analogy), like this:

בראשית

These United States...

The number 50 is used as the measure that places something at a distance. The Talmud notes the use of a rope measuring 50 cubits for matters such as measuring the 2,000-cubit distance of techum Shabbos, the distance beyond the city one may travel on Shabbos.

Who Knows 50? The distinguished number of transcendence.

Speaking of the distance beyond the city one may travel on Shabbos.:

Acts 1

6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.

When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

Yet there shall be a space between you and it.

The Moon is symbolic of the Kingdom of David, so it's a nice touch that the horizontal Saturn V dynamic test vehicle Restoration is displayed in the Davidson Center for Space Exploration, which was built for it:

Visitors are welcomed at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Marshall’s official Visitor Center. U.S. Space & Rocket Center visitors can learn more about Marshall’s legacy and ongoing work.

Visiting Marshall

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"Pharaoh" comes from the Egyptian and means "big house".

Seems that people like it there, knowing no other way.

Merry Christmas!

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "...sabbath day's journey" has meant that one has a boundary beyond which one should not / could not go.

Goodness knows, I've boundaries aplenty and am rather thankful for them.