You know, I often wonder as for what percentage of the general population REALLY grasps how much is 1 trillion dollar (or 1 trillion anything). Meaning, do they really grasp the NUMBER itself? Examples (media!) would help. Such as:

How much is 1 trillion dollars? Well....for example.....if you would live 100 years and in every single MINUTE of your life, from your birth to death you would get $19,025 dollars and 87 cents, you would (almost) get 1 trillion dollars.
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If you would lay down 100 dollar bills (length-wise), around the entire planet Earth, at the equator, 1 trillion dollar would go around the Earth 38.92 (almost 39) times.
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If you would lay down 100 dollar bills ((length-wise)) from the Earth to the (average distance) Moon, you would have to make more than 4 rows of 100 dollar bills (4.057) to get 1 trillion dollars.
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If you would stack up 100 dollar bills (one top of the other) the height of a 1 trillion dollars stack would be 678.66 MILES.
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Just a couple of days ago I saw it on TV, the latest estimate of the population of USA is 310 million people. Out of 1 trillion dollars, you could give every single person $3225 dollars and 80 cents.
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If you would buy a car, which costs 1 million dollars, you could buy 1 million such cars out of 1 trillion dollars.

At the same time, if you are in a socialistic mood and would like to donate the 1 trillion dollars to the population of the planet (6,887,600,000 people, the latest estimate), each people would get $145 dollars and 18 cents. Once.