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Why would this in particular be important to him? I would think he wouldn't care
Evangelicals are a big part of his base and hate that there aren't more children in their sunday schools.
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.
if the population declines that should make real estate cheaper, and trump and his friends own a ton of real estate
The Nazis did it
Child bennefits are pretty common. "Nazi's breathed air" etc...