I guess that's my point though, anyone who would push trickle-down after decades of watching it not work is a pretty blatant liar. He doesn't refer to it by name, but his actions are those of someone who truly wants to benefit the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. This goes just as it does for Reaganomics and supply-side economics, just different names for permutations of the same throughout the better part of the last century. Trump perhaps is a bit different for not really talking about it in the first place, but this is where things get ass-backwards: Your dad might not like Trump because Trump doesn't try to push some new brand of trickle-down; he just does it is the background. So on one hand he doesn't call attention to that, but on the other that's even more dishonest, he's just trying to slip these changes by without worrying about public perception. This goes also for our current Senate and House which both just approved their own revisions of his tax plan.