Trump Quotes by Scott Bessent

20 Trump quotes by Scott Bessent

Scott Bessent’s 20 Trump‑focused lines look at the former president through an economic lens, highlighting market reactions and policy implications. It’s a concise set for readers who care about finance and politics.

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It's insanity - this idea that Trump is inflationary is absurd.

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I think Donald Trump is always going to make his opinion known.

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Thanks to President Trump, we're going to have peace.

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Trump is making a lot of very good economic points.

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We had a great economy under Trump 1.0.

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I was the only one in the dorm who was heartbroken when George Wallace decided not to run for president.

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It is a powerful signal when a politician's home state does not back him or her in a national contest.

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Trump does like to pick fights, but it is a mistake to think he is transactional on China.

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Academic economists have consistently discredited themselves by wrongly warning against the policies of President Trump.

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If the Trump tax cuts get extended or made permanent, I think there have to be pay-fors.

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President Trump's record of tax reform and deregulation powered the American economy to the fastest real wage increases in a generation.

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Democrats have dropped the term 'Bidenomics' as swiftly as they dropped the man.

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I think what's different about Trump is he's a businessman - and he understands economics.

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While we don't think the Fed is an explicitly political institution, we think nearly all of Washington, D.C. is united in wanting…

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I mean, think about the coalition that Donald Trump assembled. This was the greatest political comeback in history, greatest political comeback in…

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Americans' dissatisfaction with Bidenomics comes not from social media or bad press coverage, but from their lived experience of rising standards of…

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One of the biggest misapprehensions about Donald Trump is that he's going to be profligate. He said to me, 'Scott, what are…

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If Vice President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. had won his home state of Tennessee on November 7, 2000, he would have become…

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I was all-in for President Trump. I was one of the few Wall Street people backing him.

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Everyone asks me, what do you tell President Trump he should do? I don't have to tell Donald Trump he should do…

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The original sin of Bidenomics was the American Rescue Plan, which became law in March 2021.

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I grew up on a fishing village, a little river, South Carolina.

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Allowing the private sector rather than the government to allocate capital is crucial to growth.

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The reserve currency can go up and down based on the market.

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