Bessentg: Americans should skip toys for kids' birthdays and invest in rump's accounts

[struggle4progress]

Erin Keller In Ohio
Wednesday 28 January 2026 21:30 GMT

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged families to skip buying toys for kids’ birthdays and instead invest the money in the new Trump accounts.

Bessent, a wealthy hedge fund veteran serving as the nation’s top economic adviser, made the remarks on Fox News while promoting what the administration calls “Trump Accounts,” which are a pilot program to deposit $1,000 into tax-advantaged accounts for children born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028.

With an estimated net worth of more than $500 million, Bessent framed the suggestion as a way to help children build long‑term financial security, saying that relatives could “rather than giving a toy for a birthday or holiday, they can contribute to these accounts” ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-account-scott-bessent-no-toys-b2909712.html

Or they could invest in machine guns and bazookas for the post-apocalyptic world!

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Reminds me of being underwhelmed when my grandparents routinely

gave me savings bonds for my birthday, every year.

(I compensated at age 18. I cashed them all in and got a really loud stereo.)

[Rebl2]

2. My parents

did that with my niece and nephew, but they also got gifts as well. The niece and nephew used it towards books for college.

[Prairie Gates]

3. They gonn' rob yo ass

Don't put a dime in a Trump account. Total fucking scam. Withdraw anything they give at the earliest opportunity and put it in to a legitimate investment account, or just spend it. Don't consider it real money so long as it's in a Trump account. These people are grifters.

[Solly Mack]

4. Or they could not have children and take all that money they would have used on children to fund their own lives and

retirements.

Since we're telling people what to do.

I don't care. Have them, don't have them.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Republicans are sick.

[bigtree]

6. that fucker insinuated Americans should be shot and killed for carrying a gun.

...he should resign.

[Turbineguy]

7. What's the vig on that?