What beyond that oxymoron could anyone possibly need to know about anyone who could utter that phrase (hint: Trump. Duh!).
What could possibly make it more evident that Trump, like Gee Dubya before him, ‘was born on third base and thinks he hit a home run’ (h/t the late, great Molly Ivins, I think).
Often attributed to Molly Ivens in a biography about George Bush …
○ Jim Hightower: George Bush was someone who’d been “born on third base and decided he’d hit a triple” (1988)
[Another source refers to an earlier use by Barry Switzer in 1986 and Susan Fraker in 1983: NPR in 2004]
There was also a $3.2 million loan that his daddy disguised as a purchase of casino chips. Busted later and fined, but it still gave Trump the cash he needed to make a large loan payment.