Despite vow, Trump's 'exciting' new health care plan doesn't exist

[Nevilledog]

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/despite-vow-trump-s-exciting-new-health-care-plan-doesn-n1235464


Two weeks ago today, Donald Trump sat down with Fox News' Chris Wallace in the White House Rose Garden, and the host asked about the president's ongoing efforts to destroy the Affordable Care Act, which would strip benefits from tens of millions of families. The president replied that he still intends to "replace" the ACA.

The host reminded Trump, "But you've been in office three and a half years, you don't have a plan." It was at this point that the president responded with an unexpected vow:

"Well, we haven't had. Excuse me. You heard me yesterday. We're signing a health care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health care plan that the Supreme Court decision on DACA gave me the right to do.... [T]he decision by the Supreme Court on DACA allows me to do things on immigration, on health care, on other things that we've never done before. And you're going to find it to be a very exciting two weeks."

In terms of the Supreme Court ruling, Trump was apparently referring to a bizarre legal theory that the justices, in their recent DACA ruling, effectively gave the president license to, as John Yoo put it, "violate the law." Or put another way, when Congress won't act on an issue, Trump now believes the high court's conservatives have empowered the White House to basically do as it pleases -- not only on immigration policy, but in practically every area.

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Yeah, his new health plan is called dying. Like so many are in this CV epidemic. Worthless

POS needs to get thrown out on his a&& along w/ his cronies and administration lackeys...

[Newest Reality]

2. Wait...

You mean NOBODY has received their TRUMP FULL HEALTH CARE EXTRA SPECIAL VOTE FOR ME FIRST AID KIT in the mail yet?

Maybe that's because the USPS is being drowned in a barrel.

[mnmoderatedem]

3. hell we knew that the minute he said that

he was just having diarrhea of the mouth like usual. My overwhelming thought at the time is that no reporter will follow up in in two weeks and ask where that health plan is.

Sadly, trump's horseshit has become so commonplace, that this kind of crap has become completely normalized during his presidency.

[gratuitous]

4. Will any reporters ask him about that?

It was going to be a complete replacement, as I recall.

[Tom Rinaldo]

5. Just like his new "Middle Class Tax Cut" that announced just before the 2018 midterms

which supposedly would be introduced shortly after that election. He is such a fucking liar.

[leftieNanner]

6. Oh! This is why the Senate took a long weekend.

They are secretly crafting that double-secret Health Care Extravaganza Bill in their basements.

And it will emerge on Tuesday - fully formed and in flower - because that's totally the way Congress works.

It will be such a magnificent plan that Nancy Pelosi will call a unanimous vote for it in the House and she will walk back over to the Senate and deliver it personally to Mitch. And then the two of them will skip over to the White House to lay it at Trumpy's feet.

(OK - tell me you didn't laugh at the image of Moscow Mitch skipping...)