Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

The protests didn't stop passage of a House bill, but it got people into town halls and scared the shit out of GOP legislators enough for them to worry about 2018. They work.

Wow, CNN had to retract big story on "Russia," with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017

guys cnn is fake fyi

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDRHMGLXsAINQKV.jpg

I thought Mike Huckabee taught us that CNN actually stood for Cardiac Care Network

President Donald Trump continued to float the possibility on Monday that Congress and the White House would simply let Obamacare’s individual markets collapse if the GOP’s repeal effort goes down later this week. But McConnell called up Trump recently, according to people with knowledge of the call, to deliver a reality check.

Voters expect Republicans to deliver on their long-held promise to repeal the law, McConnell said, according to those people. And failing to repeal the law would mean the GOP would lose its opportunity to do a partisan rewrite of the law that could scale back Medicaid spending, cut Obamacare’s taxes and repeal a host of industry mandates.

Thing is, though, that that is exactly what Trump promised he wouldn't do. This should not work at all, but Trump is such an imbecile it probably does...

i think people should stop calling this 'trumpcare', it implies that there is actually care involved, or even a plan that doesn't kill

#wealthcare

Trumpcarcass

wealthcare is pretty good

dontcare

Pres pool watched Pres Trump on hold for at least 90 seconds waiting for the new Irish Prime Minister to pick up. pic.twitter.com/dG2uK9UlGz

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 27, 2017

he was actually calling Domino's to place an order

*consults blank piece of paper*

he looks like he's doing face exercises

xpost - Meaning the State Department personnel list?

HO

Funny how it works

Orrin Hatch says details of possible changes to the Senate healthcare bill are "beyond my pay grade." He's third in line for the presidency.

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 27, 2017

these motherfuckers

#1 hasn't got the details down either it seems

tbh it's beyond Trump's pay grade too. He doesn't know what's in it, just that he wants a win and someone (probably Ivanka) told him the current bill is 'mean.' xp

It would conceivably be in Tom Price's pay grade, if he weren't such a reprehensible piece of shit.

almost 100% certain Trump could not define the terms "deductible" and "premium" correctly.

truly respectable institutions are shaping the healthcare debate. pic.twitter.com/dGRUMkgQQa

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 27, 2017

editors can't find anyone who wants to defend this shitty, unpopular law so Avik Roy & his dodgy, P.O. Box think tank becomes the go-to.

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 27, 2017

hahaha a ups store

lol I just read Avik Roy's piece defending the healthcare bill over lunch.

congrats on keeping it down then

I think I heard Avik Roy as the "pro" side on some NPR show yesterday and man, what a blind to reality fanatic. There was a woman who called in from Texas who has three kids, two on her healthcare plan (along with her and her husband) and a third on Medicaid. The child on medicaid was born with a genetic health problem and could not get insured, so they'd been paying out of pocket while she was on a waiting list for 13 years (!). Finally, with the ACA she at last got her child fully covered and absolutely loved Medicaid - its accessibly, its coverage, everything, which had all been truly life-changing. Meanwhile, as she pointed out, her premiums had been rising and coverage had been increasingly limited with her conventional health insurance, as different companies came and went. Roy, iirc, pretended to be sympathetic, but assured her that once the ACA was repealed and replaced rates would drop down and she'd had have better coverage than ever. The woman wasn't, if you pardon the phrase, buying it, and pushed back that her experience with Medicaid as opposed vs. for-profit just emphasized to her the need for single payer.

Big: Senate Republicans won't vote on the health care bill this week at all, a Senate GOP source tells @TheIJR

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 27, 2017

NEWS!!! Trump is inviting all GOP senators to the White House today for a meeting at 4 p.m.

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) June 27, 2017

NEWS!!!

Nudes?

you're all fired!!!

several years ago Avik Roy came off as one of the smarter conservatives; turns out he was a con. Chris Hayes ripped him to shreds live the other day.

NEWS!!! Trump is inviting all GOP senators to the White House today for a meeting at 4 p.m.

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) June 27, 2017

you guys want to go in together on a boat?

McConnell delaying health care vote until after July 4th recess. GOP senators invited to White House this afternoon to circle the wagons.

— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) June 27, 2017

If you're smart, you choose to run your con by posing as a conservative, because even if you're exposed as a fraud and a con-man, you'll still get all the business you can handle, because the people paying you will take it as a credential, not a disqualification.

A Time Magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake. https://t.co/GbabQP5hXQ pic.twitter.com/EFTEcyasRE

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 27, 2017

I bet Trump has one of those sepia toned pictures of himself in wild west garb hanging somewhere.

Reminded of 1984 and the Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass.
What defines real in Trump World.
Possibly also that quote about telling a lie 1000 times that gets attributed to Hitler.

I feel like the fake civil war RIVER OF BLOOD plaque at mar a lago is worse than this...

News: McConnell called Reince last Saturday, told him attacks on Heller are "beyond stupid"

w @GlennThrush >https://t.co/WwZMjTQy0H

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) June 27, 2017

I made the mistake of wondering what bullet necklace wearing idiot Katrina Pierson is doing these days - she works for the PAC going after Heller.

Oh my god.

Amazing: Appears that the barcode on @realDonaldTrump's phony Time cover is actually barcode for software that lets you be a karaoke DJ. https://t.co/xEeLq6soaZ

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) June 27, 2017

I'm starting to wonder if Trump isn't literally a hastily-assembled pile of garbage wrapped in a suit. Some kinda shitty Russian android built out of old dummy parts and table scraps and karaoke DJ software.

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) on President Trump: "It has been a challenge for him to learn how to interact with Congress."

— Matt Viser (@mviser) June 27, 2017

Vestvorld xp

srsly you may need a deprogram tho, OL

"It has been a challenge for him to learn how to interact with Congress."

The Republicans aren't sending their best people.

Fun times in the press room.

Reporter asks Perry about his old comment calling Trump "a cancer on conservatism"

Perry: That has nothing to do with energy!

— David Mack (@davidmackau) June 27, 2017

How many times are reporters going to say PENCE IS IN CHARGE WATCH OUT NOW