Relying on corporate media for news is getting more expensive for progressives. I found zero reports about this massive story on any major platform, even though it’s now in its third day, growing and causing a social media storm. So trad media readers have no idea and are missing out on billionaires giving back, which is, after all, their hearts’ great desire. We begin with a stale story from CNBC, which over the weekend reported, “Trump Account holders may receive $250 Dell grant starting Monday, Dell Foundation says.” May turned out to be will. Texas kids started receiving gifts (not grants) on September 1st, and yesterday it went nationwide.
The accounts, named after the President, were established in the One Big Beautiful Bill on July 4th, 2025, and went live one year later on this July 4th. The federal government deposited $1,000 into every active account for American children born from 2025 through 2028. It makes kids into investors. All deposited money buys shares in a private stock index fund, so it increases over time along with the S&P 500. You can still sign up at TrumpAccounts.gov.
If parents (or grandparents) keep up even modest regular deposits —which can be put on autopilot— kids’ account balances could reach seven digits by the time they turn 18. At that time, the kids can use the money for education or convert the accounts into normal IRAs, which means they’ll be a far more reliable retirement option than Social Security, which was probably designed by a bureaucratic committee led by a mad genius with the last name Madoff.
Young Americans are right to be skeptical of Social Security. It secures their retirement years in the same way that a kale leaf turns a handful of generic Doritos into a $22 Mexican salad. And they know it. But now, there’s a real option. Sadly, Trump Account money can’t be spent by bureaucrats who quietly replace the cash with a cocktail napkin saying “I.O.U.” scrawled in 3rd-grade handwriting.
📈 Enter the billionaire oligarchs and real philanthropy. In December, Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion of their own money for 25 million American children aged ten and under. Leave no child behind.
On Tuesday, Texas kids started getting Dell deposits. Yesterday, it went national, and social media lit up like a Christmas tree with posts from delighted parents getting notifications of deposits into their Trump Accounts app. Here are just a few examples:
Bethany S. Mandel said, “Four of my kids just got $250 @TrumpAccounts gifts from @MichaelDell. Thank you for investing in their futures!” SJM posted, “My son just got $250 today for his. I told the wife the next tech thing we buy needs to come from Dell.” Matt Van Swol tweeted, “Wow… @MichaelDell I just got notified of your gift to my son. Thank you so much, what an incredibly kind gift.”
It’s not just a one-off. Yesterday, Delta announced on its website a $1,000 match for all employees’ children with Trump Accounts:
It will pressure the other airlines to follow suit. What does your airline contribute to my child’s future? Oh. Wait! It’s already started. Add American Airlines. Headline from CNBC:
This morning, Michael Dell teased that even more is coming.
Fifty-plus big companies are now offering Trump Account matching. So. The news is trickling out through inter-company memoranda.
📈 You’d think the Dell Deposits would make a perfect media story. It’s exciting. Billionaires share the wealth. With children. Parents get free money. Kids get college and retirement cash. The media should be tripping up the stairs in its haste to run stories on how to sign up. You’d think they’d praise the Dells to the high hills, if only to shame other billionaires into doing the same thing.
But no.
A billionaire voluntarily redistributed $6.25 billion to help low- and middle-income children build assets, and the press reacted as if he had donated a suspicious duffel bag to an airport locker. The story has entered the witness protection program and is now living somewhere under the assumed name “Miscellaneous Personal Finance Brief.”
Ground News found only four stories total in the rollout cluster. That works out to roughly $1.56 billion of philanthropy per article, possibly the highest unreported-assets ratio in journalism history. My searches found zero Bluesky posts about the deposits. Bluesky is very interested in economic justice as a concept. Just not when it has an orange logo.
BlueSkiers endlessly condemn billionaires, poverty, children, and redistribution. Apparently, combining all four into one successful event violates the community guidelines.
“We need to make the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations in America start paying their fair share of taxes,” Bernie Sanders shouted earlier this year. “Their greed has no end!” But Bernie did not celebrate the Dell deposits, which is on-brand, because the wealthy couple’s money cut out the middleman: the government.
Let me translate. Progressives: “Billionaires should give back.” Michael and Susan Dell: “All right—$6.25 billion for children.” Progressives: “No, not like that.”
We have finally discovered the most effective way to stop a progressive from accepting free money for his children: put Donald Trump’s name on the envelope. This may be the first social program in history with no partisan means test and an extremely effective partisan emotional test.
Whale Psychiatrist said it best:
