NBC News - Since the beginning of May, Trump has promised action on questions or decisions in “two weeks” around 10 times — and he used the same timeline repeatedly during his first term in office.
“We’re going to be announcing something, I would say over the next two or three weeks, that will be phenomenal in terms of tax and developing our aviation infrastructure,” Trump said of tax overhaul plans on Feb. 9, 2017.
He released a one-page outline of the plan 11 weeks later, according to a Bloomberg review that year.
He went on to repeatedly cite the time frame for impending actions on health care and infrastructure that never materialized during his first four years in office.
Trump’s use of the timing prediction has accelerated in recent weeks — and he’s used it on items ranging from trade deals and tariffs to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Much of what he’s predicted hasn’t come to pass, with questions he’s said he’d answer remaining unanswered. More
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