Donald Trump is a very quotable man. Despite his ostensible dislike of the media, America’s new president has done about as many press conferences in his first two weeks as Biden managed in his entire period in office.
Often he is quotable for the wrong reasons. When an American Airlines flight crashed in Washington last month, killing all on board, Tump was asked if he’d visit the deadly scene. Pointing out that the aircraft had plunged into the Potomac River, he replied: “You want me to go swimming?”
But sometimes his pithy rhetoric is an asset to his political messaging. During his presidential campaign, Trump repeated the phrase ‘drill baby drill’. He didn’t coin it – Republicans first used it in 2008 – but the message was clear: environmental concerns were not going to get in the way of keeping energy cheap and abundant for Americans….
