My favorite in this genre, just because it's so surreal, was when he declared that he invented the phrase "priming the pump." “I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good.” - Interview with The Economist, May 11 2017 - ThreadSky

helenkennedy.bsky.social • 68 days ago

My favorite in this genre, just because it's so surreal, was when he declared that he invented the phrase "priming the pump."

“I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good.”
- Interview with The Economist, May 11 2017

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lesliead717.bsky.social•68 days ago

just say no….what an incredibly ignorant narcissist

crabbydogmom.bsky.social•68 days ago

And he has no actual idea of what the original action "priming the pump" means as it refers to mechanics.

karenmhj.bsky.social•68 days ago

As if he's ever seen a handpump, not even at a park, let alone understand how one works🙄

nellismd.bsky.social•68 days ago

My favorite part is that he thinks we are the highest taxed nation in the world. Not even close.

weathergod.bsky.social•68 days ago

This is an actual technique of his. Hide a lie inside of a ridiculous claim. People focus on the easier to dismiss ridiculous claim and the lie gets uncontested.

boysek.bsky.social•68 days ago

Ah, to be narcissistic, ignorant, and ahistorical, all at once. Would be so much easier.

helenkennedy.bsky.social•68 days ago

And have millions of people just buy into your garbage because they're on your team.

boysek.bsky.social•68 days ago

and then you sell them cheap perfume, shoes and bibles all made in china to fund your lavish lifestyle and your legal defense

anitamann.bsky.social•68 days ago

He’s an ignorant fool

p3nny.bsky.social•67 days ago

He doesn’t know what Keynesian means. I’d put $500 on it.

iadh.bsky.social•68 days ago

One day, someone will tell him about the concept of solipsism and then he'll think he invented solipsism

lola1999.bsky.social•68 days ago

DJ can be the spokesperson for that one.

freedomoverfascism.bsky.social•68 days ago

This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?

oldnewdad.bsky.social•68 days ago

Can he please have a massive stroke on stage, shit his pants and keel over? That’s the Christmas miracle I’m praying for.

nancyginga.bsky.social•66 days ago

Meanwhile, the president elect, trump, and Trump’s son are all drug addicts.

nobopedro.bsky.social•68 days ago

Totally untethered to reality. Our next president. Let that sink in a sec.

robsur.bsky.social•68 days ago

He never heard of Nancy Reagan Just Say No

kathy59.bsky.social•67 days ago

FFS🤦‍♀️you stop with the Adderall first!

marezila963.bsky.social•68 days ago

Such an embarrasment. How can anyone listen to the noises coming out of his mouth?

bluefrommagioh.bsky.social•68 days ago

I'm old enough to remember when he was going to drain the swamp.

mitchsolomon.bsky.social•68 days ago

President Of Mice and Men

nywonk.bsky.social•68 days ago

So typical of that imbecile.

"Priming the pump" is something the average student learns in Economics 101.

Trump is a functional illiterate with an ego.

kevindoessomegood.bsky.social•68 days ago

Okay, we know he's likely legitimately mentally ill and a clinical narcissist. Do we think he actually believes it when he says things like "no one's ever done X?" Certainly either way it's bad, but I'm morbidly curious. I would just love to actually be able to understand his damaged brain.

wweiss53.bsky.social•68 days ago

Tell Jr to lower demand might be a place to start

chewolf.bsky.social•68 days ago

Malignant narcissism meets dementia.

salongroupnyc.bsky.social•68 days ago

This guy studied at Wharton? Was he absent the years that they studied Econ 101?

peachdiva.bsky.social•68 days ago

And groceries, don't forget. He was the very first to use that word. I guess when you don't read every word is a revelation.

corick.bsky.social•68 days ago

That was Butler’s Football team t-shirts in 1999

elko15.bsky.social•68 days ago

I’m just glad Trump was clever enough to come up with “The Resolute Desk.” Before that they were just calling it “That Table Over There.” (FF: The timber came from the British ship HMS Resolute and was a gift from QV in 1880.)

middlemolly.bsky.social•67 days ago

He's just a blithering ijiot & so are his deluded cult followers.

cuspis.bsky.social•68 days ago

I'm jealous he doesn't know dare existed

jjgass.bsky.social•68 days ago

To cover for the fact that he had no idea what “Keynesian” meant

helenkennedy.bsky.social•68 days ago

Omg. You might be right!

helenkennedy.bsky.social•68 days ago

That's very perceptive.

ladyvaderofq.bsky.social•68 days ago

The stupid is very strong here...

chilithepuff.bsky.social•68 days ago

He's literally trying to take credit for... English... 🤣🤣🤣

conscience123.bsky.social•67 days ago

Will Trump do anything Adderall commercial?

osbournemom.bsky.social•68 days ago

D A R E

gonnerinsocal.bsky.social•68 days ago

Is Ketamine bad for you?

cynthie.bsky.social•68 days ago

"How bad drugs are"? The felon should practice what he preaches and tell Jr. to do the same.

jschmeling.bsky.social•68 days ago

I used to work with a faculty member who was always saying “This is the first time this has been studied.” He, also, had probably never seen or used a pump, let alone primed it.

rothschilling.bsky.social•68 days ago

He is an astoundingly stupid person.

blindcurmudgeon.bsky.social•68 days ago

🟠 🤡

kindredreach.bsky.social•68 days ago

Just say no.

malaclypse.bsky.social•68 days ago

No chance whatsoever he knows what priming an actual pump is.

livelaughloathe.bsky.social•66 days ago

Dude thinks he just invented D.A.RE.

nsousanis.bsky.social•68 days ago

9th grade economics class…

goaskalis.bsky.social•68 days ago

Donald Trump thinks "Prime the pump" means ordering one from Amazon and he doesn't know what a pump is

whittm.bsky.social•68 days ago

What a nitwit. Seriously? I'm sure he's NEVER had to prime a pump. I'm equally sure he has no idea what that means. How will we survive 4 more years of his nitwittery?

heebee-gb-88.bsky.social•68 days ago

And groceries...he came up with that too. OMFG!!!!

windgust3.bsky.social•68 days ago

Donold.

klowy.bsky.social•68 days ago

Paging Elon Musk.

hazytrippindaizies.bsky.social•68 days ago

Lul. K. 🌬️

cocothecat.bsky.social•68 days ago

Trump is profoundly ignorant of everything not associated with himself or his self-enrichment.

mellycumberbatch.bsky.social•68 days ago

Trump is insane

borncurious.bsky.social•68 days ago

🤣🤣if you say so moron

helenkennedy.bsky.social•68 days ago

Me?

ummagummibear.bsky.social•68 days ago

Surely she was referring to Trump.

menckenfan.bsky.social•68 days ago

He pulls this bs all the time. I read about "pump priming" when we were studying the Great Depression in junior high school in the 1960s. Of course he heard it and it's just now bubbling up through his brain and out his thick skull.

popzap.bsky.social•68 days ago

Says the guy who rotted out the roof of his mouth and wears a prosthetic piece from the damage done with snorting so much white powder! Says the guy who also wears a diaper because he can’t control his bowels due to drug use!