Why does Trump and Bessent use the words “dividend” and “assets?”
“Dividend” payments are NOT tax breaks or refunds. Anybody telling you that, doesn’t understand what’s actually coming.
Trump is RETURNING the wealth STOLEN for generations, back to the American people.
How?
He introduced the Sovereign Wealth Fund and then he actively pursued and keeps pursuing deals that will “profit” the American people.
How?
Here is a list of public stakes and control rights, that Trump has ALREADY negotiated, to benefit the American people long into the future. These deals will continue “dividend” checks long into the future and Trump continues to make more “deals” all the time.
“Golden share.” (GROK)
“Golden share”/veto rights as a condition of approvals or financing:
• Intel: ~9.9–10% equity stake (largest shareholder), funded by converting unpaid CHIPS Act grants plus other program money (roughly $8.9–11 billion range). http://nytimes.com
• U.S. Steel / Nippon Steel merger: A “golden share” giving the U.S. government (and effectively the president) veto/control rights over certain decisions such as facility closures, name changes, or headquarters moves. http://spglobal.com
• MP Materials (rare earths): Pentagon became a major/largest shareholder via a $400 million preferred equity purchase plus options for additional shares. http://businessinsider.com
• Lithium Americas (Thacker Pass project): 5% equity in the company plus 5% economic interest in the GM joint venture, obtained by restructuring a prior Energy Department loan. http://nytimes.com
• Trilogy Metals: Stake (around 10% plus additional warrant rights) tied to access-road approval for the Ambler mining district. http://washingtonexaminer.com
• Korea Zinc: Significant equity in a Tennessee smelter/refinery joint venture (reports of a 40% government position in the U.S. facility). http://archive.ph
• Additional mineral and processing names that appear in trackers: USA Rare Earth, Vulcan Elements, ReElement Technologies, Atlantic Alumina (gallium), and others. http://cfr.org
• Semiconductor and related CHIPS R&D recipients: multiple companies (including GlobalFoundries and others) received or were offered funding conditioned on minority non-controlling equity stakes.
Quantum-computing firms were also included in later Commerce announcements. http://cato.org
Other instruments include warrants, profit-sharing arrangements (e.g., Westinghouse nuclear) Quantum and later CHIPS “portfolio” awards (mostly letters of intent; equity is a funding condition) May 2026 quantum package (~$2.0B):
• IBM / Anderon — $1B (minority stake in the foundry venture)
• GlobalFoundries — $375M quantum foundry (plus a later separate $300M photonics LOI)
• Atom Computing, D-Wave, Infleqtion, PsiQuantum, Quantinuum, Rigetti — $100M each
• Diraq — up to $38M July 2026 compute-supply-chain package ($874M):
• GlobalFoundries — up to $300M (co-packaged optics)
• Kepler Computing — up to $245M
• Multibeam — up to $140M
• Extropic — up to $75M
• Thintronics — up to $50M
• OBSIDIA Semiconductors — up to $34M
• Aeluma — up to $30M Commerce’s public condition on these awards: a minority, non-controlling equity stake “to enhance the return for the U.S. taxpayer.” http://nist.gov
Revenue-share deals (not ordinary stock)
• Nvidia and AMD: 15% of revenue from certain permitted chip sales to China. http://washingtonexaminer.com
Related holdings often bundled into the same “for the American people” story These are not company common-stock stakes in the Cato 30, but they are part of the same policy:
• Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile (seized crypto; BTC ordered not to be sold)
• Venezuelan oil revenues held in U.S. Treasury accounts, plus later talk of a Pentagon/OSC role in Venezuelan oil
• Directed investment pools from trade deals, especially Japan’s $550B package steered toward energy, chips, and minerals
