About That $2 Trillion

May 30, 2017

So you probably read about our double-counting that $2 trillion to make our lies about our budget look less like lies. It seems we got caught.

How does Super Baby DonDon explain this discrepancy? Hey, I’m not a math guy and I paid people to take my math tests in school.

But it’s not as bad as it looks. I didn’t actually pay them. I only promised to pay them.

So that still gives me rights to the moral high ground, no?

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Andrew Feinberg is the author of Four Score and Seven, a novel that imagines Abe Lincoln comes back to life for two weeks during the 2016 campaign and encounters a candidate who, some say, resembles Donald Trump. It is available on Amazon. He is the author or co-author of five non-fiction books. His political journalism and humor have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Playboy, GQ, Barron's and Kiplinger's Personal Finance.

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