There's A Sucker Born Every Minute
In the context of Donald Trump, as a hustler and hustled: A hustler named Pretty [?] Bowles, said to me, "you're the easiest guy to hustle because you have larceny in your heart." Interview on The Beat, 9/10/20. Tony Schwartz, Dealing with the Devil, My Mother, Trump and Me.
"There's a sucker born every minute."
Attributed to P.T. Barnum, died in 1891 when there were about 2 billion people on earth. In 2020 there are over 7.7 billion people. So, to round it, we should now say:
"There's a sucker born every 15 seconds."

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