Trump invents catchy new saying, "prime the pump"!

[Towlie]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/donald-trump-priming-the-pump/

TRUMP: We have to prime the pump.
ECONOMIST: It's very Keynesian.
TRUMP: We're the highest-taxed nation in the world. Have you heard that expression before, for this particular type of an event?
ECONOMIST: Priming the pump?
TRUMP: Yeah, have you heard it?
ECONOMIST: 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.

Yeah, right.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/k/kingston+trio/desert+pete_20495672.html

[riversedge]

1. Trump lies and claims he invents.... should be the OP headline.

[crazycatlady]

2. And does he do this before or after the golden showers?

(Look it up on Urban Dictionary)

[gratuitous]

3. It sure is a handy phrase!

I've used it several times already today. Thank you, President Trump, for coining that phrase. It's real good that you done that.

[jberryhill]

4. Prime it? The White House Bilge Pump Is Running So Hard Already...

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Wow,don't know what to say other than,

Trump is so full of shit he is drowning in it. Being several years older than the disgrace in the Peoples White House,the statement"Priming the Pump was used when you poured water into the Hand Pump to fill the air space in the Pump Jacket in order to form a Vacuum for the Pump to lift the water from the well". Been aware of this statement since 1943. Dumb shit Donnie was born in 1947. What a looser.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Trump may know a lot about Pump and Dump

but this is a man who's never had an original thought in his life.
He's a leechy bottom feeder who came up with nothing.
Go away, Donald.

[grantcart]

7. I quoted it in this OP because I thought it showed he is mentally disassembling before our eyes

This is so funny on so many levels you cannot contain it.

He wasn't talking to TV Guide he was talking to "The Economist" lol.

He asked The Economist if they had ever heard of "priming the pump".

I called my best friend and we laughed so hard we had to hang up.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029047657

I imagine this was the reaction from The Economist

[LAS14]

8. It goes on and on. EVERYTHING is normalized.

It may not be clever, but it is an effective way to keep his most awful behavior on the back burner.

[LAS14]

9. WaPo said it better.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/11/behind-trumps-prime-the-pump-gaffe-is-a-bunch-of-real-news/

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

10. The pump don't work

Cause the vandals took the handles.