Trump says he doesn't care about predicted US national debt explosion because ‘I won't be here’
 

Donald Trump is reportedly refusing to tackle the US’s spiralling national debt because he will not be in office by the time the situation is expected to reach a crisis point.

White House staff are thought to have repeatedly urged the president during his time in office to work on reducing the now $21.8 trillion (£17.1 trillion) America owes its creditors.

Officials had attempted to warn Mr Trump during a meeting in early 2017 that debt could spike further in the coming years.

However, the president is said to have been indifferent once he realised the problem was only likely to become critical after he had completed a possible second term.

“Yeah, but I won’t be here,” Mr Trump remarked, a source who had been in the room at the time told The Daily Beast.

“I never once heard him talk about the debt,” a former senior White House official also told the news website.

“He understands the messaging of it, but he isn’t a doctrinaire conservative who deeply cares about the national debt, especially not on his watch.

“It’s not actually a top priority for him… He understands the political nature of the debt but it’s clearly not, frankly, something he sees as crucial to his legacy.”

The comments supposedly made by the president in private are in stark contrast to his numerous public statements on cutting the US national debt.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...MeY3stSI N5Lk

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.e5e67f9c153d

people on this board have argued in great lengths that Donny will indeed manage to achieve that :error :error

Thought the control of the deficit and increase of the debt was a forte for republicans, as per Robbie saying among others ....

sequestration , anyone recall ?

:warning

He doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself.. His own kids he on.y cares about them so long as they appease him or make him money.

Don Jr actually ran away after college, lived out of the back of his truck and bar tended in Aspen, Co.. His dad disowned him and would have nothing to do with him until he came back and begged..

I recently had my water heater replaced and the repair guy pessimistically told me it'll be good for about 10 years. I told him "I plan on moving within the next 5 years so I'll let the next guy worry about it."

I don't think Trump realizes he's dealing with problems much more important than water heaters.

He doesn't care. Trump would literally start a nuclear war if he thought it would save his own ass.

So Trump's term will leave us with a massive amount of debit and our economy in tatters.

#winning.

Why should people be surprised, he's treating the country the same way he treated his casinos?

A "source" said this? LOL you guys are desperate rubes.

Well all of the "real" news orgs are carrying (meaning not the fake bullshit you post).

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articl...e-here-wh.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...report-2018-12
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...en-it-blows-up
https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...budget-2018-11
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/pres...193626757.html

Yep, not surprised. He leaves a path of destruction while managing to line his own pockets

C'mon rochard. A """"source"""" said this. Do you honestly believe this? How many times have they walked this back after the fact. They get all you rubes to post it all over social media...then they retract it.

Don't worry, once he seizes the assets of Obama, Soros, & the Clintons, he'll just dump all that cash back into the Treasury. It'll cover a big portion of the debt.

:rasta

This seems exactly the sort of selfish comment that cunt chump would make and then like the coward he is, he will deny it when asked !

i guess all the assets of all of them together would not even pay the new debts the US needs per week.

best part is he can do that

liberals will be :1orglaugh

↑↑↑ Putin's personal AIDS ass deep cleaner with dual tongue deep hole shit lick action

and you're surprised ? :helpme