As expected, Donald Trump’s big speech in Missouri today contained few actual details regarding his tax reform plan—primarily because he doesn’t have one yet—and instead featured a lot of poll-tested slogans about how cutting taxes will, wait for it, Make America Great Again. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the vague contours of said plan bear little resemblance to Trump’s promises during his campaign, when he said “hedge-fund guys are getting away with murder” and suggested the rich should pay more. As recently as last month, he was telling people, “The people I care most about are the middle-income people in this country” and that “if there’s upward revision it’s going to be on high-income people.” That, clearly, is not going to be the case.

One part of Trump’s speech that was surprising, however, was his praise for Ronald Reagan’s 1986 tax reform plan, given that he spent years trashing it.

“Our last major tax re-write was 31 years ago,” Trump told a crowd of supporters Wednesday, referring to the Gipper’s 1986 Tax Reform Act. “It was really something special . . . In 1986, Ronald Reagan led the world, cutting our tax base by 34 percent. Under this pro-America system, our economy just went beautifully through the roof,” he said, laying it on thick. But like Trump’s Twitter feed—wherein one can, with little effort, find a past tweet contradicting whatever he might have just said—there is actually a record of Trump having a very different opinion of Reagan’s Reform Act at the time.

The Hill notes that in 1991, the real-estate developer appeared before Congress and said, “This tax act was just an absolute catastrophe for the country, for the real-estate industry.” Still steaming about it in 1999, Trump wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, calling it “one of the worst ideas in recent history.”

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Senate Democrat wants the F.B.I. to investigate Carl Icahn for doing exactly what everyone assumed Carl Icahn was doing

Back in December, billionaire investor Carl Icahn was named Donald Trump’s “special adviser” on regulatory matters, an appointment that caused a bit of an outcry given the fact that 1) Icahn has said most regulation is “idiocy,” 2) he refused to sell any of his financial portfolio, all of which is affected by government regulations, and 3) even before Trump won the election, Icahn had been singularly focused on one rule affecting his majority stake in oil-refining company CVR Energy, the reversal of which would net him hundreds of millions of dollars each year. For Icahn‘s part, he never suggested that he saw the advisory role as anything other than an opportunity to profit off of his decades-long acquaintanceship with the fellow Queens-born billionaire. “Yeah, it helps me,” Icahn told Bloomberg in March. “I’m not apologizing for that.”