After the stunning ineptness with which Republicans presented their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a bill doomed less by its promise to strip insurance from 24 million Americans for the sake of another tax cut than by Republican infighting over whether or not it was extremist enough, let's check in to see how things are going.
What's that? Trump asked his Twitter followers to tune in to watch a Fox News program that, it turns out, just happened to open with a six-minute long speech demanding House Speaker Paul Ryan step down for his role in the fiasco? My, that would be quite the provocative move on the part of Idiot Manchild, if it was intentional.
So here's Sean Spicer saying it wasn't intentional.
“He is a fan of her show plain and simple,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in an email, explaining Trump’s tweet.
And if you can't believe Sean Spicer, who can you believe?
Elsewhere, we're learning a bit more about how Donald Trump operates. Sure, he publicly blamed the hard-right Freedom Caucus for the terrible bill's terrible failure, but he blames the not-quite-as-hard right Republicans as well:
“According to an attendee, Trump angrily informed [bill opponent Rep. Charlie Dent] that he was ‘destroying the Republican Party’ and ‘was going to take down tax reform — and I’m going to blame you,” the magazine’s Robert Draper reported.
You can definitely tell where Trump's heart is at. He didn't want this fight, he didn't give a damn about this fight, this "healthcare" nonsense was all supposed to be the setup for the one thing Donald Trump feels passionately about: cutting Donald Trump's taxes. He didn't care what the deal was, so long as he could say he made it, and now that he can't even do that he's gone off to pout over 18 holes of golf while Steve Bannon drafts up the latest White House enemies list.
Because to Trump, it's all about him being boss and the rest of you peons doing whatever he wants done at the moment, whether it's smart or stupid or will result in 24 million Americans losing their health insurance or involves a large vat of hot melted cheese. He doesn't care what happens, he just wants to know you'll stick your head in the vat of bubbling cheese when he damn well tells you to.
“I think the president’s disappointed in a number of people that he thought were loyal to him that weren’t,” Priebus said.
Yeah, well. Welcome to politics. I'd advise the man to get a dog, but I can't imagine there's any dog out there that deserves such a thing.