That time, I may add, priming the US economic pump works.
Whether Trump’s particular attempt to prime the economic pump will work, only time will tell.
As time has told, however, Trump certainly did not invent the phrase.
The moral?
Invent new words and expressions. Do not coin old ones.
All right, here are a few examples of “prime the pump”, including two from the distant past, that is, well before “a couple of days ago” when, somehow, Trump “came up with it”:
1. “I’m sorry Mr. Gould,” I said, “but I think we’d better just drop the whole thing.”
“Oh, no!” Gould said. His voice sounded alarmed. “Look,” he said. “I have an abnormal memory. In fact, people have often told me that I probably have what the psychologists call total recall. I’ve lot chapters of the Oral History several times and reconstructed them entirely from memory. Once, I lost one and reconstructed and then found the one I had lost, and a good many pages in the two of them matched almost word for word. If you’ll meet me in Goody’s tonight, I’ll recite some chapters for you. I’ll recite dozens of chapters. If you’ve got the patience to listen, I’ll recite hundreds. You’ll get as good an idea of the oral part of the Oral History that way as you would be reading. Considering my handwriting, you may even get a better idea.”
That night, around eight, Gould and I sat down at a table in a quiet corner in the back of Goody’s. First, he drank two double Martinis, doing so, he said, for a particular purpose. “I have found,” he said, “that gin primes the pump of memory.”
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