President Donald Trump on Thursday said Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace Obamacare is “going to be very good.”
Trump mentioned the bill during his prepared remarks at a meeting with CEOs and tech industry leaders, according to a White House pool report.
“We’ve had a thing called health care that is… percolating,” Trump said, before addressing reporters at the event.
“How do you like the health care, folks?” he asked.
“How do you like the health care?” NBC News’ Peter Alexander responded.
“It’s going to be very good,” Trump replied.
Alexander cited White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s assertion on Tuesday that Trump “clearly wants a bill that has heart in it.”
“Does it have enough heart?” Alexander asked.
“A little negotiation,” Trump replied, “but it’s going to be very good.”
Anything Trump says Is “good” is bad.
And anything Trump says is “very good” is sure to worsen and in some cases end the lives of many of us.
I thought “good health care” for Trump meant covering everyone, and doing it for less than Obamacare costs. It’s just one more indication that Trump doesn’t really know what he’s doing, or care that this travesty of a bill will harm the people that voted for him. The big question is if they will wake up and finally realize that the Republican policies, which value tax cuts for the rich over the lives of the poor, are the exact opposite of what they need in their lives.
Shorter Drumpf: Very Good for Billionaires…
I knew the slice of the public that would believe literally anything you told them confidently enough was surprisingly large. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I’m surprised. But JFC the one thing you can say, the one most salient characteristic the AHCA has, is that it is by a million light years the opposite of “good.” It’s bad. It’s very, very bad. And even though I could list reasons why there isn’t an enraged mob of millions with torches and pitchforks chasing Trump out of the country right now, ultimately it’s just astonishing and unbelievable. “Going to be very good.” I swear I’m losing my fucking mind.
This is the thing about Trump. He will literally promise anything to get what he wants. And unfortunately life hasn’t forcefully enough argued back to him that promising everything doesn’t work. You’d think the 25 million bucks he paid to settle over Trump University would be a hint, but he’s just not a hint-taker.
Great… that means we’re all going to die.