Trump’s remarks were a surprising critique of a Republican-written House measure whose passage he lobbied for and praised. At a Rose Garden ceremony minutes after the bill’s narrow House passage, Trump called it “a great plan.”
His comments also seemed to undercut efforts by Senate conservatives to include restrictions in their chamber’s bill, such as cutting the Medicaid health care program for the poor and limiting the services insurers must cover. Moderate GOP senators have been pushing to ease those efforts.
The sources say the president did not specify what aspects of the bill he was characterizing.
Trump’s comments were described by two GOP congressional sources who received accounts of Tuesday’s White House lunch. They spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal a closed-door conversation.
Their descriptions of Trump’s words differed slightly.
One source said Trump called the House bill “mean, mean, mean” and said, “We need to be more generous, more kind.” The other source said Trump used a vulgar phrase to describe the House bill and told the senators, “We need to be more generous.”
But what does he mean by the word “mean?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHLf2Weu1kIs Trump unpredictable or unhinged. Or, unpredictably unhinged? Or unhingedly unpredictable Or, predictably unhingable? What does it mean? Is it average? Is it normal? Is it a normal distribution?
My first reaction: Wow, he is thinking about something other than how great he is, how great his win is etc., about other people.
Second reaction (about 10 seconds delayed): He read something about His Trump Care being mean, mean, mean! And doesn’t want to be perceived as Mean - ala it is still him thinking about him.
So House members now know what the underside of a bus looks like.
Maybe he figured out that it would have a negative impact on kids like Barron. Oh perish the thought.