--- title: "20 Trump Quotes By Scott Bessent" description: "20 Trump quotes by Scott Bessent. Plus more from Scott Bessent and more Trump sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c74/scott-bessent-8205_always_i-think-donald-trump-is-always-going-to_3090989.jpg" --- > [I think Donald Trump is always going to make his opinion known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/i-think-donald-trump-is-always-going-to-make-his-opinion-known/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c74/scott-bessent-8205_always_i-think-donald-trump-is-always-going-to_3090989.jpg) > [It's insanity - this idea that Trump is inflationary is absurd.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/it-s-insanity-this-idea-that-trump-is-inflationary-is-absurd/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/694/scott-bessent-8205_absurd_it-s-insanity-this-idea-that-trump-is-in_1017047.jpg) > [We had a great economy under Trump 1.0.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/we-had-a-great-economy-under-trump-1-0/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50f/scott-bessent-8205_economics_we-had-a-great-economy-under-trump-1-0-3_3106070.jpg) > [Thanks to President Trump, we're going to have peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/thanks-to-president-trump-we-re-going-to-have-peace/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/683/scott-bessent-8205_going_thanks-to-president-trump-we-re-going-to_2275691.jpg) > [Trump is making a lot of very good economic points.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/trump-is-making-a-lot-of-very-good-economic-points/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d4/scott-bessent-8205_economic_trump-is-making-a-lot-of-very-good-econo_2633043.jpg) > [If the Trump tax cuts get extended or made permanent, I think there have to be pay-fors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/if-the-trump-tax-cuts-get-extended-or-made-permanent-i-think-there/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f2/scott-bessent-8205_i-think_if-the-trump-tax-cuts-get-extended-or-ma_905564.jpg) > [Democrats have dropped the term 'Bidenomics' as swiftly as they dropped the man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/democrats-have-dropped-the-term-bidenomics-as-swiftly-as-they-dropped/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb9/scott-bessent-8205_democracy_democrats-have-dropped-the-term-bidenomi_3033292.jpg) > [President Trump's record of tax reform and deregulation powered the American economy to the fastest real wage increases in a generation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/president-trump-s-record-of-tax-reform-and-deregulation-powered-the/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac6/scott-bessent-8205_american_president-trump-s-record-of-tax-reform-a_2702051.jpg) > [Academic economists have consistently discredited themselves by wrongly warning against the policies of President Trump.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/academic-economists-have-consistently-discredited-themselves-by/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c8/scott-bessent-8205_against_academic-economists-have-consistently-di_404383.jpg) > [Trump does like to pick fights, but it is a mistake to think he is transactional on China.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/trump-does-like-to-pick-fights-but-it-is-a-mistake-to-think-he-is/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7eb/scott-bessent-8205_china_trump-does-like-to-pick-fights-but-it-is_601446.jpg) > [I was the only one in the dorm who was heartbroken when George Wallace decided not to run for president.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/i-was-the-only-one-in-the-dorm-who-was-heartbroken-when-george/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/167/scott-bessent-8205_dorm_i-was-the-only-one-in-the-dorm-who-was-h_1706201.jpg) > [It is a powerful signal when a politician's home state does not back him or her in a national contest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/it-is-a-powerful-signal-when-a-politician-s-home-state-does-not-back/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e37/scott-bessent-8205_back_it-is-a-powerful-signal-when-a-politicia_681321.jpg) > [I was all-in for President Trump. I was one of the few Wall Street people backing him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/i-was-all-in-for-president-trump-i-was-one-of-the-few-wall-street/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/423/scott-bessent-8205_backing_i-was-all-in-for-president-trump-i-was-o_803702.jpg) > [I mean, think about the coalition that Donald Trump assembled. This was the greatest political comeback in history, greatest political comeback in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/i-mean-think-about-the-coalition-that-donald-trump-assembled-this-was/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/627/scott-bessent-8205_comeback_i-mean-think-about-the-coalition-that-do_2497455.jpg) > [While we don't think the Fed is an explicitly political institution, we think nearly all of Washington, D.C. is united in wanting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/while-we-don-t-think-the-fed-is-an-explicitly-political-institution/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/918/scott-bessent-8205_donald-trump_while-we-don-t-think-the-fed-is-an-expli_2977865.jpg) > [If Vice President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. had won his home state of Tennessee on November 7, 2000, he would have become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/if-vice-president-albert-arnold-gore-jr-had-won-his-home-state-of/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d44/scott-bessent-8205_george-w_if-vice-president-albert-arnold-gore-jr_87763.jpg) > [Americans' dissatisfaction with Bidenomics comes not from social media or bad press coverage, but from their lived experience of rising standards of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/americans-dissatisfaction-with-bidenomics-comes-not-from-social-media/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/759/scott-bessent-8205_americans_americans-dissatisfaction-with-bidenomic_2404206.jpg) > [One of the biggest misapprehensions about Donald Trump is that he's going to be profligate. He said to me, 'Scott, what are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/one-of-the-biggest-misapprehensions-about-donald-trump-is-that-he-s/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a31/scott-bessent-8205_control_one-of-the-biggest-misapprehensions-abou_2097887.jpg) > [Everyone asks me, what do you tell President Trump he should do? I don't have to tell Donald Trump he should do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/everyone-asks-me-what-do-you-tell-president-trump-he-should-do-i-don/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/scott-bessent-8205_anything_everyone-asks-me-what-do-you-tell-presid_929530.jpg) > [I think what's different about Trump is he's a businessman - and he understands economics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/i-think-what-s-different-about-trump-is-he-s-a-businessman-and-he/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ca/scott-bessent-8205_about_i-think-what-s-different-about-trump-is_1242629.jpg) ## Other authors on Trump ## More by Scott Bessent > [If Vice President Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. had won his home state of Tennessee on November 7, 2000, he would have become president of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/if-vice-president-albert-arnold-gore-jr-had-won-his-home-state-of/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [Our firm: We study history. We think about the future. We try to analyze what's going on in the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/our-firm-we-study-history-we-think-about-the-future-we-try-to-analyze/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [Tariffs can't be inflationary because if the price of one thing goes up, unless you give people more money, then they have less money…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/tariffs-can-t-be-inflationary-because-if-the-price-of-one-thing-goes/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [President Trump's first-term tariffs did not raise the prices of the affected goods, despite predictions back then that the tariffs would prove inflationary. Indeed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/president-trump-s-first-term-tariffs-did-not-raise-the-prices-of-the/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [We are stretching our nation's finances and creditworthiness so thin that we may find ourselves unable to afford to defend our interests around the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/we-are-stretching-our-nation-s-finances-and-creditworthiness-so-thin/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has distorted Treasury markets by borrowing more than $1 trillion in more-expensive shorter-term debt compared with historical norms. Terming out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-has-distorted-treasury-markets-by/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [The original sin of Bidenomics was the American Rescue Plan, which became law in March 2021.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/the-original-sin-of-bidenomics-was-the-american-rescue-plan-which/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [Used strategically, tariffs can increase revenue to the Treasury, encourage businesses to restore production and reduce our reliance on industrial production from strategic rivals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/used-strategically-tariffs-can-increase-revenue-to-the-treasury/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [Academic economists have consistently discredited themselves by wrongly warning against the policies of President Trump.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/academic-economists-have-consistently-discredited-themselves-by/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [I grew up on a fishing village, a little river, South Carolina.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/i-grew-up-on-a-fishing-village-a-little-river-south-carolina/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [Allowing the private sector rather than the government to allocate capital is crucial to growth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/allowing-the-private-sector-rather-than-the-government-to-allocate/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [Despite its many flaws, abandoning the international trading system would be a major economic and strategic mistake. Instead, the United States must adopt policies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/despite-its-many-flaws-abandoning-the-international-trading-system/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [The reserve currency can go up and down based on the market.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/the-reserve-currency-can-go-up-and-down-based-on-the-market/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [Trump does like to pick fights, but it is a mistake to think he is transactional on China.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/trump-does-like-to-pick-fights-but-it-is-a-mistake-to-think-he-is/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) > [The Federal Reserve was forced to raise rates at a record pace after the demand shock created by Biden's multi-trillion-dollar spending packages were launched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/the-federal-reserve-was-forced-to-raise-rates-at-a-record-pace-after/) [Scott Bessent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-bessent/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/scott-bessent/#itemlist", "name": "20 Trump Quotes By Scott Bessent", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think Donald Trump is always going to make his opinion known.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Scott Bessent" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-bessent/i-think-donald-trump-is-always-going-to-make-his-opinion-known/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c74/scott-bessent-8205_always_i-think-donald-trump-is-always-going-to_3090989.jpg", "contentUrl": 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