Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections — this time, to more than 20 million seniors, giving them $90 each to help pay for Medicare premiums.

The announcement, made late Friday night by Trump on social media, comes after the president last month said about 1 million people would get rebate checks of $500 for Affordable Care Act premiums. He has also promised on the campaign trail to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.

That pledge — which would require approval from Congress — would likely cost more than $1 trillion, adding to the deficit and worsening inflation.

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    According to a recent article he’s made more stock trades than all of Congress combined while acting at president the past year and a half. Over 600 trades in July alone.

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      Imagine a Democrat president that made any trades.

      Shit I still remember when Obama was excoriated for “picking winners and losers” after they put money into a company that built wind turbines solar panels (which eventually went under).

      Edit: had to Google the name, which immediately gave me a physiological reaction when I saw it again for the first time in years: Solyndra.

      I guess they made solar panels, not wind turbines.

      And that was the US government, not Obama as an individual. He had to be above reproach, because the whites in this country were angry and rabid.

      What we are experiencing is a direct result of those people who’s minds were permanently broken by having to live 8 years with a black president.