Did I miss the point where Trump offered something that looks like a vaguely plausible solution to the problem that in recent periods of aggregate growth, that growth has largely been captured at the top end of the income distribution?
He has promised to bring manufacturing jobs back by ending "free trade" (i.e. imposing tariffs on the countries that have been imposing tariffs on our exports for decades) and punishing American manufacturers that move factories abroad, significantly lowering taxes for lower income brackets (including no taxes for the nearly 50% of the population in his lowest bracket), and encouraging domestic investment by reducing corporate tax rates to extremely competitive rates while imposing a repatriation fee on offshore corporate accounts and ending the tax exemption on corporate income earned abroad. The "automation is going to put 99.9% of humans out of a job" dystopian futurist crowd may see this as punting the ball down the field, but I'd much rather pump some wealth back into our lower classes today and wait until everyone else is contemplating post-scarcity economics, than commit economic suicide while China snickers.
He doesn't announce plans to fix things, he just says how bad something is, says something insulting about whoever tried to fix it before, then says that if he gets elected he'll somehow magically take care of it because he's the kinda guy who "fixes things", or something.
Although, there have been frequent instances where he claims to have a plan for something, but doesn't want to say what his plan is because he doesn't want to give anything away to his enemies. It would be kind of endearing if it was someone asking a little kid how he's going to prank someone, not so much when it's a grown man responding to questions about the potential use of nuclear weapons.
I think parrot is the word you're looking for. Had you read the article you'd have seen this is a trend that started in the 60s and started accelerating in the late 90s.