The president has no authority to single-handedly authorize checks of any amount, writes The Post Editorial Board. AP

President Donald Trump’s talk of a $2,000 tariff “dividend” for nearly every American sounds tempting, but more “free money” from Uncle Sam is a recipe for the ruin of the republic.

The prez should drop the talk because walking the walk would yield disaster.

“A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone,” Trump posted Sunday .

Yet the president has no authority to single-handedly authorize checks of any amount.

He’d need Congress’ OK, and plenty of Republican lawmakers oppose such rebates; if he works with Democrats to get them, they’ll take most of the credit.

Even his own Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent,

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