Late-night hosts recapped the second day of Donald Trump’s underattended and unusual “midterm convention” in which he promised $5,000 for every adult US citizen if the Republicans win.Jimmy KimmelJimmy Kimmel opened Thursday’s monologue with a report from the second day of the Republican National Committee’s “midterm convention” in Dallas, held at the request of Donald Trump. “He demanded a midterm convention, which is something that had never been done before, because there’s no reason to do that,” Kimmel explained. “And of course he got it. They do whatever he wants.”Trump spent the previous night posting on Truth Social, disputing all evidence that the Dallas arena was less than crowded. “He is so embarrassingly desperate to convince us that the place was packed. He even tried to convince the people in the place that it was packed,” Kimmel laughed before a montage of Trump saying “the place is packed” or “nobody has left,” among numerous other comments about his audience size, including “please, if you don’t mind, don’t anybody go to the bathroom,” lest the media take a picture of an empty seat. “Easy for you to say, you’re the only one wearing a diaper,” Kimmel retorted.The host then played a clip of the half-empty arena itself, at the moment Trump asserted that it was still jam-packed. “Could there be a better metaphor for this presidency than him bragging about the size of his crowd to a bunch of empty seats? I don’t think so!“That arena was as empty as a Waymo,” he added. “But his must be high-ness has so many trembling flunkies around him willing to corroborate his constant bullshit, why would he even bother to tell the truth?”Later in his hour-plus speech, Trump promised to send $5,000 to every adult US citizen should the Republican party win the US House and Senate in November. “I spent all day today trying to decide whether that was a bribe or a lie,” said Kimmel, “and I think it might be both things? I think Donald Trump just invented the libe.“How nice of the president to offer us our own money. This is like if I went in your bathroom and unplugged your electric toothbrush, put it in a box and gave it to you for Christmas.”If such a scheme were to take place, Kimmel noted, it would add $1.3tn to the US federal deficit. “How is he going to pay for that?” he wondered. “Is Ivanka going to sell girl scout cookies to pay for that? No! We will have to pay it back with more taxes, and the best part is he wouldn’t send us the checks anyway.“If you believe Donald Trump is going to give you $5,000 if the Republicans win, I have a Mexican-paid wall, a privately funded ballroom and a three-day long Iran war to sell you.”The Daily ShowTrump may be unpopular, said Michael Kosta on the Daily Show, but “he has a secret weapon” for the midterms, “and it’s called a bribe”. As Trump claimed on Thursday, should Republicans win in November, he would send “a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000”.“That’s two trips to the grocery store! Or one, if you buy raspberries, Kosta quipped. “I like how Trump calls this a dividend. Do you know when businesses hand out dividends? When they’re raking in money. The last time I checked, we, as a country, have a negative $40tn of money. America should not be handing out dividends. We should be faking our own death and starting a new life in Thailand.”Even Trump’s supporters seemed confused by the untenable offer. Brian Kilmeade, host of Fox & Friends, could only offer: “Not bad … I’m not sure that’s OK but I think it’s kinda fun.”“And that’s what being president is all about! Having fun,” Kosta joked. “Even Brian Kilmeade didn’t know what to make of this … he sounds like Trump just asked him to throw rocks off the overpass.“But this is just the latest in a cycle of Trump’s behavior with the American people,” Kosta conclude. “He promises a huge payout; that never happens. And then he promises an even bigger payout, and then that never happens. This spiral is exhausting, poisonous, and it makes you question the very health of our democracy. And look, I’m not sure that’s OK, but … it is kinda fun.”