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Bigly Boy Donald Trump’s bigly foray into masterminding the takeover of American healthcare died an inglorious death on Friday. Speaker Paul Ryan ended up pulling the Trumpcare/Ryancare bill at the last minute on Friday afternoon because his own caucus was in disarray and Republicans were split between “I’m scared sh-tless that old people will yell at me at my townhall meeting” and “this bill doesn’t do enough to punish old people, sick people and women!” It was actually a good day to be sane. It was a good day to laugh at the sad, unbigly Republicans.
But of course a bigly fascist is never so dangerous as when it is wounded. Apparently, Emperor Baby Fists has been lashing out at all of his perceived and very real enemies. He even held a little press conference in the Oval Office to call Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer “losers” and blame Democrats in general for his failure to whip votes for the Republican health care bill. He also tweeted this:
ObamaCare will explode and we will all get together and piece together a great healthcare plan for THE PEOPLE. Do not worry!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 25, 2017
“Explode” is the verb we’re going with here? It’s almost like he wishes he could weaponize Obamacare. Don’t get me wrong – I have issues with Obamacare too. My rates have gone up as insurance providers have stopped participating (I see you, Anthem). But the answer isn’t “punish women for having babies.” The answer is a nuanced bill to fix how providers participate in the exchange. The ACA won’t “explode,” but it will inflate costs. The problem is that the only real answer will be found if and when the Democrats get back in power.
Also: apparently Bigly Baby Fists was super-mad that Jared Kushner wasn’t in DC to help him out with the healthcare. I would imagine Bigly was probably upset that Jared missed him going vroom-vroom in his bigly big rig too.
While the rest of his senior staff scrambled to squeeze votes for President Trump’s flailing health care package, one person remained notably absent for most of the week: Jared Kushner. Along with this wife, Ivanka Trump, another key cog in the president’s inner circle, Kushner was on vacation until Thursday, skiing with family in the posh Colorado town of Aspen. Paparazzi caught Jared and Ivanka taking leisurely strolls, enjoying ice cream cones with their three kids and winding their way down the slopes.
Meanwhile, back in Washington, Trump was fuming. According to a source close to the president, “[Trump] is upset that his son-in-law and senior adviser was not around during this crucial week.” Kushner did appear at the White House on Friday during the last gasps of the Obamacare repeal effort.
A White House spokesperson flatly denied the President is frustrated with Kushner. It has not been entirely clear what specific role Kushner, who has no Capitol Hill or Washington background, would have played in a legislative effort. When Ivanka and the kids took off for Aspen last weekend, sharing a ride on Trump’s private 757 jet with Donald Trump, Jr. and his family and Eric and Lara Trump, Jared did stay behind in Washington. However, he only worked Monday, and by that evening was himself flying out to join the rest of the Trump clan. On Tuesday, an Instagram photo from Lara Trump showed Kushner and Ivanka on top of a mountain. And as the week wore on and it was clear back home on that Trump’s cornerstone campaign pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare was floundering with lawmakers, Jared remained out West, leaving to Vice President Mike Pence, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus and Kellyanne Conway the arduous task of selling the plan on Capitol Hill.
Kushner’s plan to stay out-of-office this week while the health care package faltered could mean he’ll get some of the blame from his father-in-law. Trump is reportedly already pointing fingers at his top staffers for what he considers shoddy support. Or, Kushner could perhaps avoid the entire debacle; the Orthodox Jew typically stays away from work after sundown on Fridays.
[From CNN]
I wonder about this. While I don’t doubt that Bigly is a giant “I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I” toddler who blames everybody else for his own failures, I always believed that Ivanka and Jared were mostly exempt from his tirades and blame-gaming. Of course, they aren’t saying Bigly is mad at his precious Ivanka. But Jared? I imagine orange tears being shed and self-pitying howls of “How could you leave me, Jared??”
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