President Donald Trump’s pledge to hand Americans a $2,000 tariff “dividend” was immediately walked back by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday.

Trump announced his tariff rebate amid a barrage of Truth Social posts Sunday morning defending his tariffs and berating Supreme Court justices for questioning their legality at a hearing last week.

“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!” he fumed, before falsely claiming that the U.S. was “taking in Trillions of Dollars” from the tariffs.

Trump, 79, then declared, “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” without further explanation. He added that efforts to pay down the record $38 trillion national debt would begin “soon.”

But Bessent, 63, dialed back Trump’s tariff re

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