Donald Trump just promised you $2,000: Don’t spend it all in one place

Don’t put a lot of thought to that $2,000 that Donald Trump all but said this morning was already in the mail just yet.

“I haven’t spoken to the president about this yet, but, you know, the $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways,” Treasury Secretary and pretend soybean farmer Scott Bessent said on Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

Here we go, with the start of the bait-and-switch.

“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,” Bessent said, giving away the game – that it’s not a real, tangible $2,000 that Trump was talking about.

Not like that $40 billion that he sent to Argentina, for instance.

That was cold, hard money, the kind you can spend.

Bessent’s walkback would seem to run very much counter to what Trump himself posted on his fake-news social media network at 7:25 a.m. Sunday:

I mean, there’s no hint of tax deductions there.

That sounds like the kind of money that we sent to Argentina here recently.

Not “no tax on tips” – I don’t get tips.

Not “no tax on overtime” – I’m self-employed, so, no overtime.

I don’t get Social Security, my cars are paid off.

I want some of that Argentina money.