insisting that an expression is original Yes, I found the "priming the pump" comments cringeworthy, and they do concern me about his mental state, but I though

insisting that an expression is original Yes, I found the "priming the pump" comments cringeworthy, and they do concern me about his mental state, but I thought much of content of the interview was actually very clear. Consider his statements on "legal immigration" (which unfortunately he first misheard as "illegal immigration"): Economist: And what about legal immigration? Do you want to cut the number of immigrants? Trump: Oh legal, no, no, no. I want people to come into the country legally. No, legally? No. I want people to come in legally. But I want people to come in on merit. I want to go to a merit-based system. Actually two countries that have very strong systems are Australia and Canada. And I like those systems very much, they’re very strong, they’re very good, I like them very much. We’re going to a much more merit-based system. But I absolutely want talented people coming in, I want people that are going to love our country coming in, I want people that are going to contribute to our country coming in. We want a provision at the right time, we want people that are coming in and will commit to not getting…not receiving any form of subsidy to live in our country for at least a five-year period. Economist: But the numbers of those people could be as high as the numbers that are coming in legally now? You’re not looking to reduce the numbers? Trump: Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, we want people coming in legally. No, very strongly. Now they’re going to be much more strongly vetted as you see. You know, we’ve broken the all-time record [of detentions at the border] by many times, 73, we’re up to 73, it’s going to go up to almost 80% at the border, we’ve…you know, really stopped it. We also want farm workers to be able to come in. You know, we’re going to have work visas for the farm workers. If you look, you know we have a lot of people coming through the border, they’re great people and they work on the farms and then they go back home. We like those people a lot and we want them to continue to come in. I thought his answer in the first paragraph was refreshingly clear and defensible. While his grammar might be lacking, the message itself seemed very clear, although hard to square with the usual media mantra of "Trump is anti-immigrant".