“Is Trump Buying Votes?” - $2,000 Tariff Dividend Debate: Smart Strategy or Political Bribe?

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Trump proposes a $2,000 “tariff dividend” for Americans, claiming his trade policies made the U.S. rich again. Patrick Bet-David and the crew debate whether it’s smart economic relief or vote-buying, how tariffs could pay down debt, and why both parties keep growing America’s $37T deficit.

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0:00.0	All right, let's go to this one.
0:01.5	Guess what?
0:01.8	President wants to send you $2,000. He says they'll issue $2,000 tariff dividends to all except high income earning people. Rob, has that been announced or no that he's going to be doing that? Is that a... He announced it yesterday. He announced it yesterday. So let me read this to you for some of you guys. If you haven't received it yet, on what 800 number to call.
0:22.4	President Donald Trump on Sunday gave his cell phone number to call for the $2,000
0:26.0	dollar tariffs payments that at any point you can text them.
0:29.1	That's a joke, folks.
0:30.1	I'm not giving you his phone number.
0:32.1	Claim the dividend check of at least $2,000 will be paid to Americans except for high-income
0:36.3	earners saying the country is now
0:38.4	wealthy as a result of his tariff policies.
0:41.1	People that are against tariffs are fools.
0:43.9	We are now the richest, most respected country in the world with almost no inflation and a record
0:48.1	stock market.
0:49.4	401ks are higher than ever.
0:51.0	We are taking in trillions of dollars, and soon we'll be beginning paying down our enormous $37,000, $37 trillion
0:57.4	out of debt.
0:58.7	Record investment in the U.S. plants
1:00.2	and factories are going all over the place.
1:01.9	A dividend of at least $2,000 a person
1:04.9	not including high-income people
1:07.5	will be paid to everyone.
1:10.6	I wonder when. Can I give a guess on when I think
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