Comment: I would guess that Trump is a narcisist with evil staff with as deep delusions of grandeur. Jackson’s actions paying back the debt led to a panic, both because they reduced the public sector and gave liquidity to the wealthy, who had no where to spend it but speculation. We will have no such problem should Trump get his tax cuts passed. The rich will buy these instruments and spend less on foolishness.

The CIA speech shows that Trump and his staff have no idea what they are doing, and when Trump is intellectually lost, Trump babbles.  Why he fixated on a losing argument on crowd size is inconceivable, except that Presidents talk about domestic issues at foreign leader press conferences all the time.  The problem is that his staff enables him, repeating his lies, rather than finding a way to make him stop.