‘Soon,’ ‘Very Soon,’ ‘Eventually’: A Detailed List of Things Trump Said Would Happen

‘Soon,’ ‘Very Soon,’ ‘Eventually’: A Detailed List of Things Trump Said Would Happen
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By WILSON ANDREWS,
President Trump regularly says that his policy goals – an Obamacare repeal, an infrastructure bill, an overhaul of the tax code,
a border wall, among others – will happen “soon,” “very soon,” “very, very soon,” “in the coming weeks” or even “immediately.”
This tendency is perhaps most prominent in Mr. Trump’s descriptions of Republicans’ efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Using a website called Factbase, we reviewed nearly all the president’s remarks since his election, searching for references
to specific time frames, like “soon” or “very soon” (a full list of such words is at the bottom of this article).
“I think he had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process,” Mitch
McConnell, the Senate majority leader, said after Republicans’ previous failure to repeal the law.
Factbase transcribes, sorts and tags nearly every public statement made by President
Trump – spanning official White House releases, speeches, interviews and even tweets