“Have you heard that expression before?” he asked. “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.”
Another Trump “discovery”: “Merriam-Webster… A marriage of a Merriam and a Webster and they are in the business of saying what the best words mean.”
I prefer “the late Donald Trump.”
Solipsism–The view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.
If Trump invented the term, ask him what the term “priming the pump” means to the use of an antique pump: What does one do to prime a pump and how does that action activate the pump? How does is that phrase apply to economics?
The late great Irwin B. Macklow taught me that and put those questions on my 9th grade civics test. I got full credit. Thanks IBM!
He’s like a toddler in potty training: “Look what I made, Mommy!”
Trump and John Maynard Keynes were at university together, and Trump coined the phrase during a debate he won with Keynes at the Cambridge Union.
Too much of the “most beautiful chocolate cake” while entertaining the company and mostly himself with bombing decisions.
Well, if he didn’t personally write it he was the inspiration and prophet for the creation of the US. At least he inspired the Declaration of Independence. Maybe even the Magna Carta, if not the Bible itself.
More likely he defines the term A-hole in one!
Just turning five and discovering the wonders of the world around you demand constant expression of marvel too.
Yes, I suspect they drew straws at the Economist to see who got to interview Trump.
If only Trump had met your mom, she would have pointed out to him that she used the term in the 1920’s, and she did not invent it either. She could have saved him another in a mindnumbingly long list of embarrassing idiocies.
I also love how he still claimed he invented the term even though the guy said he had heard of it before.
Maybe it is all about hearing loss ? that sneaks up on you, over the years, you hardly notice it…
A hearing aid and a pair of reading glasses may improve little Donald’s performance, perhaps ?
They should ask little Sarah Sanders about this, she is from Arkansas, they know the term…
Maybe that’s why he keeps repeating, “Can you believe I’m President?” to everyone he comes across…
Completely, overwhelmingly ignorant. He certainly has no idea what the literal meaning of the phrase is, no awareness of its practical origins, and no consciousness of his own stupidity.
I’m beginning to wonder if Kim Il Don even remembers what he had for breakfast.
Prime the pump…??? Has a president ever used that line before??? Hmmmmm
Jeez…
Prime the pump, huh? I think it more likely that someone said it is a crime that we elected Trump.
I would think Trump is somewhat fond of the year 1933. Particularly in Germany.