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Why would this in particular be important to him? I would think he wouldn't care
if the population declines that should make real estate cheaper, and trump and his friends own a ton of real estate
Guess, in no particular order, could be all these or none of these:
Someone told him about runaway population decline now being taken seriously in SK and Japan, we're not quite in the unrecoverable zone yet. https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20250404-south-korea-is-over
5000/child is enough to get a rural wageslave to bolster their numbers and create the next generation of right-wing voters, but not enough to get left-wing educated people who can make reasonable guesses 9 months into the future.
5000 per child is cheap and it's enough to gain him popularity where he's just starting to weaken.
Evangelicals are a big part of his base and hate that there aren't more children in their sunday schools.
The Nazis did it
Child bennefits are pretty common. "Nazi's breathed air" etc...