Donald Trump performed a dramatic re-reading of Bill Clinton’s criticisms of Obamacare at a Wednesday rally before suggesting President Barack Obama apologize for his signature healthcare reform law.
“Bill Clinton, yesterday! Ooh, they’re so angry at him,” Trump said at a rally in Henderson, Nevada, to laughter from the crowd. “They scolded him yesterday! He was scolded.”
The former President called the income gaps in Obamacare coverage “the craziest thing in the world” on Monday at a rally for his wife Hillary Clinton’s campaign. But he walked back what he said were misinterpretations of his remarks at a Tuesday campaign event, lauding the program for expanding coverage to 90 percent of the American public.
“Did everybody hear what happened?” Trump goaded. “Bill Clinton torched President Obama’s signature legislation!”
He then launched into a dramatic re-reading of the former President’s remarks.
“He said ‘It’s just a crazy system!,’” Trump said, gesticulating wildly while glancing at a teleprompter. “And that’s the way he said it! ‘It’s the craziest thing in the whole world!’ Then he went on to say, ‘Well, people out there are busting it’ — true! — ‘they’re working like hell, they’re busting it. Sometimes 60 hours a week, and wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half!’”
“This is Bill Clinton,” Trump continued. “’The people are getting killed,’ he said,’in this deal.’ And small businesspeople and individuals who make just a bit too much money to get these subsidies, you know what happens? They don’t get anything! They get nothing! Clinton added, ‘It doesn’t make any sense.’ The insurance model just doesn’t work!”
“So you know,” Trump said, in what was not a particularly self-aware moment, “they’re always telling me, if you say something, just apologize. Just apologize. I think that President Obama should apologize for Obamacare.”
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Just saw a ad by a super pac showing images of the folks killed in Benghazi. An obvious swift boat attempt.
Utterly tasteless.
Before Obama got the ACA passed some 40% of Americans had no health insurance. Many could not afford a doctor visit. Today under the ACA the uninsured is down to 9%. I suppose trump would prefer poor Americans have nothing. I seem to remember trump saying he loved the poor. Welp, the truth will come out.
Sadly, because of GOP obstruction and stupidity ‘we didn’t understand what we were signing’ BS and the insurance industry having a heavy hand in the writing of ACA, we don’t have the best national health care program and a Congress unwilling and unable to fix the problems with it. Now people are complaining about the skyrocketing rates which could have otherwise been avoided with any Congressional action.
In other news, Bill Clinton is still wildly popular, even among some Republicans, so mocking him is not going to go over well.
Trump just has to be a flaming asshat.
He’ll replace it with the equivalent of Trump University. Only the best!
Poor Donnie his brain just don’t work right.