| Trump ignoring huge 'time bomb' after he raged about it a decade ago President Donald Trump once warned against a huge 'time bomb' facing the country while he raged on the 2016 campaign trail, but according to a new piece from The Hill, he now seems content to completely ignore it. Writing for the outlet on Sunday, legal scholar David Wippman and historian Glenn C. Altschuler noted that Republicans have been fussing about the national debt for decades, harkening back to warnings from Ronald Reagan in 1981 when it surpassed $1 trillion for the first time. They also noted that Trump himself said that the U.S. was 'sitting on a time bomb' of debt when he first ran for president, pledging that he would eliminate it within eight years. |
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