President Trump reportedly shrugged off concerns over the ballooning national debt, telling senior advisers in an early 2017 meeting “Yeah, but I won’t be here” when presented with “charts and graphics layout out the numbers and showing a “hockey stick” spike in the national debt” set to occur “in the not too distant future.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-06/trump-i-wont-be-here-when-debt-crisis-goes-nuclear