[plain talk]

He insisted that he would be able to get rid of the nation’s more than $19 trillion national debt “over a period of eight years.”

LOL

[DouglasKC]

Most economists would consider this impossible because it could require taking more than $2 trillion a year out of the annual $4 trillion budget to pay off holders of the debt.

lol...impossible? I wasn't that long ago that a 4 trillion dollar "budget" would have been impossible to imagine and now they can't imagine a lower budget?

[ironman]

I’d be happy if he could get rid of the deficit in 8 years and start paying down the debt.

[Starboard]

He insisted that he would be able to get rid of the nation’s more than $19 trillion national debt “over a period of eight years.”

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This will actually be easy to do through a simple three step process. First, make massive cutbacks in wasteful and redundant agency spending. Second, cut personal and business taxes to incentivize spending, commerce and investment. And third, eliminate all unnecessary regulations that suffocate businesses. The ensuing economic revival will stun people.

[Reagan Disciple]

He can't wipe out that amount of debt without double digit GDP growth for years. A consumption based economy cannot grow like that.

The US economy doesn't produce that much revenue to fund itself AND pay off all the bonds AND expand the military AND expand health care like he wants to AND hold a progressive tax base at his proposed rates.

Geez - this guy can truly say anything and his supporter just yell “YES”.

It's really amazing.

[sergeantdave]

Bob Woodward and Robert Costa are the American answer to Joseph Goebbels and Heinreich Himmler.

[Crucial]

Time to do anything remotely like this is running out. Go Trump!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well at least Trump plans to actually do something.

[PLMerite]

Eliminate a $20T debt in eight years? That would be very hard on everyone. But better to do it while we still have some economy left. If we wait until it collapses of its own weight we won’t recover.

[keving]

I'm glad Kennedy dream to Go to the moon. It's not easy to make the country better. That's who I want a leader and a better company. A Leader like Trump!

[blowfish]

The Donald's mouth is simply running off making another promise. The Donald's brain will eventually catch up with it and figure out how much damage control his minders will have to perform.

It's just how he rolls.

[dragnet2]

I’d bet money half a million bureaucrat positions could easily be eliminated.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Donald Trump said in an interview that economic conditions are so perilous that the country is headed for a “very massive recession” and that “it’s a terrible time right now” to invest in the stock market, embracing a distinctly gloomy view of the economy that counters mainstream economic forecasts.

Please, go ahead, talk down my 401(k), you dumbass.

DANG!