Popular vote loser Donald Trump wants you to know that he is very smart and he knows everything there is to know about health care and anybody who says otherwise is Fake News.
That's in response to reports in both the Washington Post and The New York Times that plenty of representatives and senators neither fear Trump nor think he knows what he's doing in the job. The Times:
A senator who supports the bill left the meeting at the White House with a sense that the president did not have a grasp of some basic elements of the Senate plan — and seemed especially confused when a moderate Republican complained that opponents of the bill would cast it as a massive tax break for the wealthy, according to an aide who received a detailed readout of the exchange.
Mr. Trump said he planned to tackle tax reform later, ignoring the repeal’s tax implications, the staff member added.
The Post:
In private conversations on Capitol Hill, Trump is often not taken seriously. Some Republican lawmakers consider some of his promises—such as making Mexico pay for a new border wall—fantastical. They are exhausted and at times exasperated by his hopscotching from one subject to the next, chronicled in his pithy and provocative tweets. They are quick to point out how little command he demonstrates of policy. And they have come to regard some of his threats as empty, concluding that crossing the president poses little danger.
To which Trump responded with a pithy and totally wrong tweet demonstrating just how much he doesn’t understand stuff.
That would be internet sales taxes. Which as of April, Amazon has started charging. To its customers, who are the ones paying the taxes. Which Amazon then passes on to the states.
