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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian
so. much. ****ing. LOL in the interview w/ Economist that's referenced in that video:
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Trump tries and fails to think of the word “reciprocity.” (“We need reciprocality in terms of our trade deals,” he asserts.)
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INTERVIEWER: Another part of your overall plan, the tax reform plan. Is it OK if that tax plan increases the deficit? Ronald Reagan’s tax reform didn’t.
TRUMP: Well, it actually did. But, but it’s called priming the pump.
It is in fact well known among economists and policy experts that the 1986 Tax Reform Act was designed to be revenue neutral. The interviewer lets this go and continues:
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TRUMP: Have you heard that expression before, for this particular type of an event?
INTERVIEWER: Priming the pump?
TRUMP: Yeah, have you heard it?
INTERVIEWER: Yes.
TRUMP: Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven’t heard it. I mean, I just … I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It’s what you have to do.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...ty-ensues.html
I know it's funny and inconsequential in a vacuum, but claiming he personally just came up with 'priming the pump'? And a couple days ago... when he used it during his campaign??
I no longer have any doubt that POTUS has an immense mental health problem(s) (meh, I haven't in a long time but anybody who has been skeptical needs to wake up) and only deteriorating further by the day it seems. JFC Republicans. JFC America.