President Trump never claimed to be an actual fiscal conservative on the campaign trail. But his casual shrug-off of the nation’s debt problem doesn’t make the impending debt crisis any less terrifying.

The Daily Beast reports that when pressed by aides about tackling the national debt, Trump says the quiet part out loud, admitting that he’s just trying to kick the debt can down the road for a future president — which, in fairness, is exactly what his predecessors did to him.