Of course. He just says whatever is blowing in the wind.
Now that a disaster cannot be averted due to the debt (which has been true for some time now) he’s pretending to be all sagacious.
It’s ridiculous.
He helped make this self-fulfilling prophecy come to pass (so to speak).
I only ever watched the first ten minutes of Game of Thrones and even I know: “Winter is Coming”. Abortion is eating the seed corn.