Trump "posed for photos & handed out signed swag" to convince Republicans to vote for f*cking over America. USA! USA!

[Miles Archer]

Trump, fresh off his "blunt-force charm offensive" to woo hardline conservatives, expressed confidence Wednesday night that his party would fall in line and vote to pass his signature budget bill.

Trump's massive, multi-trillion-dollar tax and spending package, dubbed the "Big, Beautiful Bill," extends and expands Trump's tax cuts. Critics have said it will mainly enrich corporations and the super wealthy, thrust millions off Medicaid and food assistance, and increase the federal deficit by at least $3.3 trillion over the next decade.

The president has pulled out all the stops to get deficit hawks to fall in line, including posing for photos, handing out signed swag, and charming holdouts in his party.

Even so, the fate of the bill wasn't immediately clear late Wednesday to many, except the president himself.

"It looks like the House is ready to vote tonight. We had GREAT conversations all day, and the Republican House Majority is UNITED, for the Good of our Country, delivering the Biggest Tax Cuts in History and MASSIVE Growth. Let’s go Republicans, and everyone else - MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform just before 9:15 p.m. Eastern Time.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-big-bill-2672561782/

[Diamond_Dog]

1. I want to barf.

[kacekwl]

2. So that is all it takes

to get their vote, a signed Chinese hat and the honor of standing to king shitsalot and have your pic taken. What a sad group of fascists.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Disgusting bunch of traitors. Sold out their country for a damn MAGA hat.

And a picture with a brutal psychopath and Russian asset.

[Shellback Squid]

3. Old sales technique, give someone your nice expensive pen when they sign the docs

trump swag is worthless tho, should give them hamberders

[LaRaven]

4. Do you think someone else was there to threaten them?

I have a hard time believing they would be stupidly enough to fall for freebies to sway them

[Miles Archer]

5. This has also been revealed, in addition to what I posted:

What Trump offered to get rogue Republicans to back bill

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bill-rogue/

Donald Trump wheeled and dealed his way to imminent legislative victory Thursday, promising renegade right-wing Republicans favors to win their support for his budget megabill.

With five Republicans initially voting no, and others declining to vote at all, an all-night House session has apparently whittled opposition down to just one — meaning the bill is expected to pass Thursday.

According to CNN, the dissenters were won over by promises including that the president would use executive power to aggressively kill Biden-era clean energy tax credits — a backroom commitment that flipped key holdouts.

Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, who had been a vocal opponent of the Senate version, suddenly found himself singing Trump's praises on CNBC after a White House sit-down.

[JMCKUSICK]

6. My God

[Deminpenn]

12. Man. there's a sucker born every minute

Not only did the "holdouts" or as Brendan Boyle called then the "folders caucus", settle for cheap Trump momentos, but they believed it when Trump promised them favors in return for their votes!

[Grins]

7. Photos and signed swag? Shiny baubles for your vote!

Republicans come pretty cheap these days.

[Bettie]

8. That's because they truly enjoy

screwing people over.

Remember: the Republican party is a death cult.

[GoCubsGo]

9. It wasn't the swag and "charm" bullshit that changed their minds.

It was the kompromat he has on them, and showed them, along with the threat of releasing it. "Charm offensive, " my fat ass.

[rurallib]

10. What are they - 7 year olds?

What a bunch of fucking cowards

[bmichaelh]

11. GOP should be wary

Even if it passes, it will be a Pyrrhic victory for the GOP.

Sometimes, what you wish to happen, could be the worst thing to happen.

I hear that Trump wants this to pass, so that he can go on a 'victory' tour.

Of course, he will lie more and more.

Don't ever mention those words 'Pyrrhic victory' to MAGA, they do not know what it means.

[Figarosmom]

13. All that swsg they settled for isnt

Going to be worth shit.

They were bought with nothing of substance.

[Blue Ozarks]

14. I would replace the word "convince"

with “threaten”

Trump tries hard to destroy the lives of those who oppose him

[Buns_of_Fire]

16. The cheapest of cheap dates. "Of course I'll still respect you in the morning." nt