Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale has a reality check for President Donald Trump’s latest proposal to give Americans cash.
“For the record, I am hugely in favor of winning the midterms, and love much about this admin, but am strongly against bread and circus bribes,” Lonsdale wrote on X.
Lonsdale, who endorsed Trump ahead of the 2024 election, had a pithy comparison for Trump’s idea of sending $5,000 checks to adult US citizens if Republicans retain control of Congress this November. Lonsdale invoked the Roman satirist Juvenal’s famous phrase, which translates to “bread and circuses,” referring to the use of food and entertainment to placate the…
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