President Donald Trump posted a series of videos to X on Monday pressing a midterm election message that includes a pledge to send $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans hold Congress in November.
“I’m going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000,” Trump said in one of the videos. “Democrat policies won’t allow this to happen. In fact the opposite. They’re going to raise your taxes.”
He went further, framing the election as a choice between prosperity and collapse: “If the Democrats win you will have an economic depression. If the Republicans win you will each have $5,000 in your pocket an economic success for our country like we have never ever seen before.”
The posts marked a shift back to X after Trump had been focusing much of his recent social media activity on Truth Social. Three additional videos he posted featured highlight reels of his administration, including Air Force One, military ceremonies, farmers and race-car drivers visiting the White House, and Trump signing documents in the Oval Office.
Another video showed rally crowds, American flags and factory scenes alongside messaging about protecting taxpayer dollars and prioritizing American workers. The longest of the four videos combined Oval Office footage, a segment on a Great Lakes initiative, military imagery, a rally in Texas, and footage related to immigration enforcement.
Timing follows court order on ad campaign
The social media push came shortly after U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon issued a temporary restraining order on Sunday directing the Department of Homeland Security to halt the remaining ads in a $20 million taxpayer-funded television campaign promoting the president. Trump had already said he would not continue running the ads.
With that campaign shut down, Trump is now relying on his own X account to spread campaign-style content, tying the proposed $5,000 payment directly to Republican control of the House and Senate.
Mixed public reaction so far
Polling conducted before Monday’s posts shows a divided public response to the $5,000 proposal. A Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,026 likely U.S. voters, taken September 13-15, found 47 percent approved of the idea, including 30 percent who strongly approved, while 48 percent disapproved. Only 15 percent of respondents said the promise would affect how they vote; 78 percent said it would not.
Trump has cast the payment as a reward tied to his administration’s economic record, and his latest posts suggest he plans to keep that message in front of voters as Election Day approaches.
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