How Trump made a fool of himself yet again last night
Real estate mogul Donald Trump’s Tuesday morning butthurt tweets concerning the collapse of the Senate “Wealthcare” bill betray not only the abject failure of the bloviating amateur politician to “trash Obama’s accomplishment’s” but his desperate attempt to put on a brave face.
But those are nothing compared to the unbelievable, foolish ineptitude Trump and his coterie demonstrated yesterday.
Politico lays out a detail that nearly slipped under the radar when it became clear that Senate Republicans did not have enough votes to pass “Trumpcare.” You guessed it – Trump gave himself another faceplant moment:
At a dinner with GOP senators on Monday evening, Trump said the party would look like “dopes” if they couldn’t pass the bill after sending a full repeal bill to President Barack Obama’s desk, which was vetoed.
“If the Republicans have the House, Senate and the presidency and they can’t pass this health care bill they are going to look weak,” Trump said, according to a source familiar with the meeting. “How can we not do this after promising it for years?”
Well, for starters, there is this thing called a fractured Senate Republican caucus, Donald. It’s pretty clear that after half a year Donald still has no clue about how legislation works.
Trump had no idea defections were coming [Monday night], according to another White House official with knowledge of the meeting. “Why would we have a dinner like that if we knew people were going to drop out?” the official said.
Maybe, just maybe, it is because Trump’s team is so clueless that they don’t have anything approaching a functional whip count team in place to prevent embarrassments like Monday night’s massive failures – not only to deliver on the promise to end Obamacare (and see to it that a whole lot of poor Americans die and die soon), but to look as if they have clue one about leading what used to be the greatest and most respected nation in the world.
So, naturally, Trump had a Tourette’s Tweet to keep his deplorables and rubes happy:
Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017
About that whole “Dems will join in!” thing, Donald: I wouldn’t bet on it. But look at the bright side…
Well, at least Trump’s failure on healthcare was “Made in America”.
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) July 18, 2017
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