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Donald Trump showed just how much manure a lazy out-of-shape old man can shovel in a minute and a half at a cabinet meeting on Monday, from his own relationships with Senate Republicans to health care:
Despite what the press writes, I have great relationships with actually many senators, but in particular with most Republican senators. But we're not getting the job done. And I'm not going to blame myself. I'll be honest. They are not getting the job done.
We’re not—oh, who am I kidding, it’s not me, it’s them. But I have great relationships with them, the losers who are not getting the job done.
We’ve had health care approved and then you had the surprise vote by John McCain. We’ve had other things happen and they’re not getting the job done. And I can understand where Steve Bannon’s coming from and I can understand, to be honest with you John, I can understand where a lot of people are coming from. Because I’m not happy about it and a lot of people aren’t happy about it.
“Health care” by which he means the destruction of the system was approved except that it was not approved because of that one surprise vote that came in addition to the other two Republican votes that were not surprises. And it sure sounds like even if Bannon is no longer Trump’s top adviser, he has Trump’s approval in making war on the Republican establishment.
We need tax cuts. We need health care. Now, we’re going to get the health care done. In my opinion what’s happening is as we meet, Republicans are meeting with Democrats because of what I did with the CSRs, because I cut off the gravy train. If I didn’t cut the CSRs they wouldn’t be meeting, they’d be having lunch and enjoying themselves, all right? They’re right now having emergency meetings to get a short-term fix on health care, where premiums don’t have to double and triple like they’ve been doing under Obamacare.
Trump’s claim is that Republicans and Democrats are only just now meeting about health care. Reality is that the Senate had bipartisan hearings on stabilizing Obamacare more than a month ago, following a whole bunch of meetings.
Because Obamacare is finished, it’s dead, it’s gone. It’s no longer, you shouldn’t even mention it. It’s gone. There is no such thing as Obamacare anymore. It is, a, and I said this years ago, it’s a concept that couldn’t have worked. In its best days it couldn’t have worked.
That sounds like Trump taking ownership of what happens from here on out. So keep that in mind: health coverage a year ago was Obamacare. Health coverage in a year is Trumpcare. At which point we’ll get another round of “And I’m not going to blame myself.” But as usual, there’s a past Trump tweet for every occasion.
Of course.