Sarah Smith
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3,783 appearances
44 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
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Sarah Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I thought he was joking at first, Justin, because we had been through a whole lot of familiar Donald Trump jokes about renaming New Mexico as New America.
He'd been talking about um renaming the Strait of Hormuz as the Strait of Trump and all this kind of stuff.
And then he just
drops into the conversation that everybody's gonna get a five thousand dollar Trump dividend if the Republicans win the midterm elections.
And he had to say it twice before I realized he was serious because this is not the way you go about announcing a big policy like that.
Oh, fascinating question that hadn't even occurred to me, Justin, because I am a US tax I'm living and working here.
I'm not a US citizen.
And there's so little detail about this policy, it's impossible to know whether it's only for citizens or whether it's for um resident taxpayers.
Because he didn't tell us how he was going to pay for this.
It will cost well in excess of a trillion.
dollars.
I mean, that's probably the biggest kind of spending promise that's ever been made in a speech like this at a time when the US deficit is absolutely enormous.
And it's not the first time Donald Trump has promised money that hasn't materialized.
And people are still waiting for
Uh what he said would be a two thousand dollar check for every American adult that was gonna come from all the money that came in from his tariffs.
But of course remember those tariffs were then struck down by the Supreme Court and quite a lot of money is having to be paid back from those tariffs, and there's no sign whatsoever of anybody getting a two thousand dollar check.
But maybe JD Vance kind of suggested in an interview later, maybe it's tariff revenue.
that the five thousand dollars could come from.
I mean I don't know fundamentally whether it's a serious promise or not.
And there's another thing probably occurred to you, Justin, as soon as you heard about it, I would imagine it's not entirely clear it's legal either.
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