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Dern, you nearly got me. Pretty slick.

AFAIK, Trump didn’t say he was going to “eliminate 20 to 28 trillion of national debt in 8 years by cutting spending without touching entitlements.”

I believe that to be a falsehood.

Trump did say he was going to eliminate $17 trillion of debt by selling government assets.

Sounds good to me.

He said that earlier in the year. A bit later he said entitlements would be exempt. He also said he'd save $300 billion a year from medicare drug purchases through making better "deals", his favorite word. Medicare costs a bit under $600 billion a year, drugs are about 11% a year.

I'm sorry, he does say these things. I think he's the probable nominee, it's time to get his ducks I a row. Cut back on blustering campaigning, consults with quality advisors, and presents solutions with defensible rhetoric. The left may no like his solutions, but the facts need to hold up.

As to the asset sales, that came a day or so later, when it was pointed out there was no way to accomplish it. Using that as an example, it's probably undoable by asset sales in that time frame as well. Land and physical asset sales take time, and there will be opposition in Congress. Simply shutting unused military bases and putting them to private use has taken decades. Why not concentrate instead on one asset. The majority of the country is in favor of energy independence. Production in the US eliminates imports improving our trade balance which is a Trump issue, though unspoken. It provides jobs in the US rather than overseas. Doesn't bring any back so that soundbite doesn't work, it creates them. We're estimated to have in the area of $125 to $130 trillion in energy assets. Not the government, the nation, but the government can tap that income stream. I suspect he could make that case. There are other similar opportunities which would be supported by the electorate.