President Trump’s campaign was marked by a tendency to make wild boasts about how he would fix the country’s problems accompanied by vague or contradictory details on how he would pull off such fantastic feats.

The most famous example is probably his boast that he would build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it — neither part of which has come into fruition. But much more far-fetched were his haughty predictions about how he would tackle the debt, even while proposing fiscal policies that would make that impossible.