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Trump says he made up the expression, "prime the pump."
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John B.
May 11, 2017, 4:29:51 PM5/11/17
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President Trump recently sat for a long interview with The Economist magazine in which he discussed his economic agenda. One exchange was particularly attention-grabbing for anyone who could remember high school history, or who paid vague attention to the debates over stimulus during the last recession.
Explaining why he seeks tax cuts even if they risk expanding the budget deficit, President Trump said that they might increase the deficit temporarily, but that “we have to prime the pump.”
“Have you heard that expression before, for this type of event?” the president said.
Yes, the interviewer — who, again, is an editor of The Economist — confirmed.
“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 thought it was good.”
Explaining why he seeks tax cuts even if they risk expanding the budget deficit, President Trump said that they might increase the deficit temporarily, but that “we have to prime the pump.”
“Have you heard that expression before, for this type of event?” the president said.
Yes, the interviewer — who, again, is an editor of The Economist — confirmed.
“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 thought it was good.”
B...@onramp.net
May 11, 2017, 5:20:11 PM5/11/17
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of personalities.
Dene
May 11, 2017, 6:32:26 PM5/11/17
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What a dipshit. I guess we can add naive and uneducated to his list
of personalities.
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of personalities.
Yet somehow he became a billionaire and beat 16 Republicans and two Democrats to become POTUS.
Alan Baker
May 11, 2017, 6:55:06 PM5/11/17
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Jack Sprat
May 11, 2017, 7:22:52 PM5/11/17
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wrote in message news:87l9hcphidv559t2m...@4ax.com...
Alan Baker
May 11, 2017, 7:31:31 PM5/11/17
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names?
B...@onramp.net
May 11, 2017, 7:32:23 PM5/11/17
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On Thu, 11 May 2017 15:32:25 -0700 (PDT), Dene <gds...@aol.com>
wrote:
Somehow? You and I would be billionaires if we grew up in a
billionaire's home, having everything without any worries all the way
through college then "loaned" a million dollars, going into the same
business as his father,then cheating workers out of their earnings,
going through several bankrupts, and generally being an asshole. Even
he said last week ....I'm the president, do you believe it"?
He's really a lucky SOB.
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billionaire's home, having everything without any worries all the way
through college then "loaned" a million dollars, going into the same
business as his father,then cheating workers out of their earnings,
going through several bankrupts, and generally being an asshole. Even
he said last week ....I'm the president, do you believe it"?
He's really a lucky SOB.
John B.
May 11, 2017, 10:06:07 PM5/11/17
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Carbon
May 12, 2017, 1:11:10 AM5/12/17
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On 05/11/2017 06:55 PM, Alan Baker wrote:
> On 2017-05-11 3:32 PM, Dene wrote:
>
>>> What a dipshit. I guess we can add naive and uneducated to his list
>>> of personalities.
>>
> On 2017-05-11 3:32 PM, Dene wrote:
>
>>> What a dipshit. I guess we can add naive and uneducated to his list
>>> of personalities.
>>
>> Yet somehow he became a billionaire and beat 16 Republicans and two
>> Democrats to become POTUS.
>
> Yet somehow, he CLAIMS he became a billionaire...
He would be a billionaire several times over if he had invested mountain
>> Democrats to become POTUS.
>
> Yet somehow, he CLAIMS he became a billionaire...
of money he inherited.
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