Trump reveals he doesn’t understand Obamacare and how to repeal it
Speaking to the New York Times, he revealed his complete lack of knowledge.
In a puzzling interview with Maggie Haberman and Margot Sanger-Katz of the New York Times, Donald Trump weighed-in on the legislative mechanics of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act in a way that appeared to reveal that he has no idea what’s going on.
Republicans are currently debating whether they should repeal the law right away and promise people that an unspecified replacement will emerge at an unspecified future time, or else wait and try to agree on a replacement that moves in tandem with repeal.
Trump’s answer is to reject both options. He’s now saying Republicans should repeal and replace nearly simultaneously, but without taking any time to craft the replacement:
Mr. Trump, who seemed unclear about the timing of already scheduled votes in Congress this week, demanded a repeal vote “probably some time next week,” and said “the replace will be very quickly or simultaneously, very shortly thereafter.”
How shortly thereafter? Well, when asked, he said, “Long to me would be weeks … it won’t be repeal and then two years later go in with another plan.”
The problem here is that the Republican Party currently has no consensus on just what the replacement should be, and it’s very difficult to see them arriving at such a consensus before February 1 — unless they somehow ram through a quickly-crafted replacement that would massively restructure the health care sector with hardly any deliberation, with potentially catastrophic consequences.
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16 responses to Trump reveals he doesn’t understand Obamacare and how to repeal it
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amersham1046 January 10th, 2017 at 16:34
Are the Marx Brothers now in charge
Buford2k11 January 10th, 2017 at 17:31
ahh…rhetorical question…
Larry Schmitt January 10th, 2017 at 17:32
Groucho and Karl.
mea_mark January 10th, 2017 at 16:44
The orange one is so dumb he doesn’t know he’s dumb.
Mike January 10th, 2017 at 23:10
AKA Dunning-Kruger
arc99 January 10th, 2017 at 16:53
We should take no comfort in the fact that this is the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
Someone is going to get hurt, no matter where they aim. We can only hope that most of the damage is inflicted on Trump worshipers. They are the ones who got us into this mess.
whatthe46 January 10th, 2017 at 16:59
and the stupid ass protest voters who are now crying. and of course he doesn’t know what or how Obamacare works. neither does most of his supporters who want it to end as well. case in point. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a4f296ea62eb386e726b098ee5a00dac59e788a159b619e5040090fd04705a1f.jpg
https://twitter.com/HelenKennedy/status/818522209283178498
man talk about stupid
mea_mark January 10th, 2017 at 17:20
Maybe they can just repeal the name … s
whatthe46 January 10th, 2017 at 17:35
amazing isn’t it. they hated it w/o knowing it was the same thing only because “Obama.” must fk’n suck to be that damn racist and stupid.
Larry Schmitt January 10th, 2017 at 17:34
Just another of those “poorly educated” trump loves so much.
Larry Schmitt January 10th, 2017 at 18:30
A list of what he doesn’t understand would break the internet.
Willys41 January 10th, 2017 at 20:35
You are 1,000,000,000,000,000% correct. Approximately.
amersham1046 January 10th, 2017 at 21:06
Before the election he had all the answers,–
now he doesn’t even understand the questions
William January 10th, 2017 at 21:41
That,my friend is the most telling quote I have read all day. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5d1fbad08117562a150645360e0c0e6f147b71a2123d99db09116aba9014c640.jpg
Budda January 10th, 2017 at 22:01
Exactly.
mistlesuede January 11th, 2017 at 01:00
What a fucking moron. God help us all.