General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump invents catchy new saying, "prime the pump"!
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
(70,225 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)(Look it up on Urban Dictionary)
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)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
(62,444 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)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
(45,002 posts)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
(53,061 posts)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
(13,783 posts)It may not be clever, but it is an effective way to keep his most awful behavior on the back burner.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,602 posts)Cause the vandals took the handles.