As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — had never been richer, flush with big gains from frothy stock markets.
“We should just go borrow a lot of money, hold it, and then sell it to make money,” Trump reportedly said in response.
Cohn was “astounded” by the president’s response, which he reportedly said illustrated a “lack of basic understanding” about how federal debt works.
Trump, who was the president-elect at the time and had promised to wipe out U.S. debt in eight years, reportedly offered a solution: “Just run the presses — print money.”
Someone remind me how the Zimbabwe dollar collapsed again?
Trump’s plan to help eliminate the federal debt was to print money
Someone remind me how the Zimbabwe dollar collapsed again?