I'm Jack Cottrell out with the bulwark, joined today by Sam Stein. And Sam, it looks like Scott Besson is going to have to literally cash some checks that Donald Trump is writing, which he can't, because this morning our incompetent, cognitively declining president, decided he was going to save his term by announcing something that we all love, free cash. But he can't really deliver on that. And Scott Besson was confronted on it. And what was just like a really, really bad ABC interview this morning. There's a lot to get into, but I want to start with the Trump post that kicked it all off and how apparently we're all getting $2,000. Yeah. Well, can I just say something? Like, when you do government by Fiat, when you just are like, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. It gets into your head probably that you can just write people checks for whatever amount you want, even though that's not legally permissible. I'm unclear what authority Trump has to just say, you know, we're giving these checks that we've collected from tariffs to people, but it makes sense because that's the way his mind operates. Yeah, and I think in a moment in which he's realizing he's broken, or maybe he doesn't realize and doesn't care, but he has broken every single promise of his administration, the people who voted for Trump thinking that they were going to get a check again. And we had that little short-lived

doge check, but now it's the tariff check. I don't know what type of check. It's going to be in another six months. Did they ever pay the Doge dividend? They did not, right? I didn't get one, but this one seems really promising, of course, because we've got to believe this guy. But I want to read the post before we see how president failed to respond. So Trump took the truth social, and as always, we are writing in all caps, very excited.

People that are the most... see how a president failed to respond. So Trump took the truth social, and as always, we are writing in all

caps, very excited. People that are the most against tariffs are fools. That's good to know. We are now

the richest, most respected country in the world with almost no inflation and a record stock market

price 401ks are higher than ever. We are taking in trillions of dollars and will soon begin paying down our

enormous debt. This is all really good to know. Trump also says a dividend of at least, it's at

least now, $2,000 a person, not including high income people, will be paid to everyone. So that's

really got to get you excited. At least $2,000 cash coming. But when Scott Besson was asked about that,

he didn't seem as excited. You know, it could, the $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms,

in lots of ways, George. You know, it could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing

on the president's agenda. You know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans. So, you know, those are substantial deductions that, you know, are being financed in the tax bill. So we're not getting it. We're not getting $2,000 cash, at least $2,000 cash. Do you feel really satisfied with that answer from Scott Besson? Do you think that's gives people going?

I don't know, man, for like a couple hours there, I was pretty excited for my check.

And then it got wiped away by Scott.

I don't feel bad for Scott Besson because he signed up for this.

But like, you have to imagine how crazy difficult it is to wake up.

And like you have to scroll through true social to figure out what the monetary and economic policy the administration is. And then you have to adjust on the fly. And I'm sure as people are like, what do we do with this thing? Did we do legislation to propose a bill? Is that how it works now? And so he's thrust onto TV and he has to walk it back. But, you know, to your larger point, you know, they keep promising these cash infusions to people. And I don't know. It's like the whole bait and switch stuff at some point probably catches up with you, right? You keep promising people checks and they don't get checks. If I were just, you know, regular Joe public, I would be a little bit upset, honestly, being like,

okay, you promised me a check, where is it? You promised me a doge dividend? Where is it?

Like, I'm struggling. I need the cash infusion. You keep dangling it out there, but you don't deliver.

And it's also funny that this is what the Trump campaign was able to win on the most is like the Biden administration was kind of pushing the narrative that oh look at the stock market look at economic indicators that aren't really

reflective of people's lived experiences and it's funny because a former Biden official actually

put out a post in response to Trump saying like oh things are so fantastic Democrats are lying

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