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PUDDLE-FLOPLOOZA Day One recap…
I had tech issues this morning. They’ve been resolved.
However, it’s now 8:30 a.m. my time.
There is only one option.
The Day One recap is gonna be short.
He got all the ratings…
Ratings for the start of the 2026 NFL season won’t be known for a few days.
But I think it’s safe to assume Puddle-Floplooza didn’t beat the NFL in the ratings.
The most newsworthy thing to come from Puddle-Floplooza was the sitting president attempting to buy Americans’ votes.
Puddle:
Only I can make this promise to you, and here is my promise.
If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic, tremendous economic success, like in, in history, we’ve never had anything like what’s happening, but because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000. Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders or like last year when I gave our great members of the military $1,776. Remember?
RollCall.com. 09/10/2026.
Only I can make this promise to you, and here is my promise.
Narrator: He cannot, in fact, make this promise on his own. Congress holds the purse.
Like last year when I gave our great members of the military $1,776. Remember?
Defense One.com remembers…
President Donald Trump’s $1,776 checks for more than a million troops, announced Wednesday, come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members, a senior administration official confirmed.
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The senior administration official told Defense One in an emailed statement late Wednesday evening that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the Pentagon to “disburse $2.6 billion as a one-time basic allowance for housing supplement” to all eligible service members ranks 0-6 and below.
“Congress appropriated $2.9 billion to the Department of War to supplement the Basic Allowance for Housing entitlement within The One Big Beautiful Bill,” the senior official said. “Approximately 1.28 million active component military members and 174,000 Reserve component military members will receive this supplement.”
Defense One.com. 12/18/2026.
I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000.
Business Insider (06/24/2026): Here’s all the free money Trump’s talked about giving Americans during his second term — and where it all stands
DOGE dividends:
In February, investor James Fishback floated the idea of sending $5,000 “DOGE Dividend” checks to almost 80 million taxpaying American households.
Those checks would have been paid for by spending cuts achieved by DOGE, the government efficiency office led by Elon Musk at the time.
The idea quickly caught Musk’s attention, and Trump eventually said that the idea was under consideration.
But there were some problems. For one, the $5,000 figure was based on Musk’s original estimate of $2 trillion in savings, which never materialized.
Business Insider (06/24/2026): Here’s all the free money Trump’s talked about giving Americans during his second term — and where it all stands.
$2,000 tariff rebate checks:
While defending tariffs in a November Truth Social post, Trump said his administration would pay “everyone” except “high-income people” a dividend of at least $2,000.
Although Trump’s Truth Social posts are not actual government orders, the statement drew attention from citizens and his colleagues in Washington, D.C.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget published an analysis the following day, stating that there would not be enough tariff revenue to support the idea.
“With our national debt quickly approaching an all-time high and annual budget deficits approaching $2 trillion per year, it is imperative that policymakers focus on actually reducing deficits and putting debt on a downward path,” the committee wrote.
Business Insider (06/24/2026): Here’s all the free money Trump’s talked about giving Americans during his second term — and where it all stands.
So, for those making ledgers at home, Puddle has now promised us $12,000 in refunds. I’m sure we’ll get those in two weeks…
