WH staffer screams at reporters to leave room at end of meeting with health care industry executives

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Get a load of this White House staffer *screaming* at reporters to leave the room at the end of Trump’s meeting with health care industry executives

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Aaron Rupar Retweeted

broad cross section of ... looking at notes, the health insurance industry

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[OhNo-Really]

1. 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

[Moostache]

2. How many millions of dollars of healthcare was sitting around that table?

How exactly does an industry that 'earns' its money by skimming off of the healthcare benefits it provides garner ANY respect at all? There is less value around that particular table than anywhere else on Earth today...

[gratuitous]

3. Gotta make sure they insurance companies get their piece of the pie

No, they don't provide any health care, they don't diagnose, they don't prescribe, they don't read charts or images, but they're in the mix with their hands in the cash flow, so Trump meets with them rather than actual medical professionals.

[Totally Tunsie]

4. That "screaming" is par for the course with this administration. This is nothing new.

Anytime they show a meeting of this type with reporters in the room, it ends this way with visitors being shepherded out the room. The woman you hear is the new bride of Stephen Miller, so he can't complain if his wife ever screams at him...it's what she's paid to do in her gubmint job.

It's almost funny to see this occur on a day when Chump decides to answer one more question after the attempt to clear the room. You have all the screaming, Chump begins to drone on, and then they have to begin the screaming/clearing all over again.

[benld74]

5. ALL in same room,,

With 2 who contacted those now under self quarantine from infected person at CPAC
Sweating much?
nt

[librechik]

6. actually those screaming ushers are pretty normal during the "pool spray" w reporters.

They were screaming at the reporters, not the executives. And they just do that and start to grab and push people. Very rude. They are on the clock

It's a tradition older than Trump's admin.

Oops. That's going to have to stop.

[LaMouffette]

7. You just know those parasitical health insurance executives

were there at the meeting to beseech "Ebola Roi" (Trump) for help in squirming out of having to pay the health insurance claims of any corona-virus-infected people.

Trump (waving his tiny hands back and forth in that weird horizontal gesture of his that looks like automatic doors at a grocery store gone berserk): "Just don't pay? Okay? It's a new virus, okay? So don't pay! Just say, 'Hey, folks, is it in your, you know, your papers, your papers we gave you when you got your insurance? No? Then, sorry! It ain't covered!' It's perfect! Just like the transcript. Just like the phone call. Well, maybe not that perfect!"

[CatMor]

8. I thought he handed the Coronavirus task force ..

to Pence. It seems trump is still in the middle of it all. I guess he thinks he lies better than Pence.

[Totally Tunsie]

10. Chump just wants to make sure it looks as though HE is working hard also.

If Pence's task force does well, Chump will then be able to claim he was a big part of it behind the scenes.

If it doesn't go well, Chump will revert to blaming Pence for any screw-ups.

For him, it's a win-win.

[CatMor]

11. I didn't look at it that way ...

but I believe you are right. It would be a win win for him.

[budkin]

9. THIS is why we need Medicare for All

How can anyone defend this cabal of conmen?

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Again, what is it with him sitting with arms crossed?

He's been doing that for awhile now, whenever sitting down, holding hands to forearms or crossed over chest, which looks awkward.

[VOX]

13. It's his Mussolini "fascist strongman" pose.

Google “Mussolini + Trump + arms folded,” and you’ll see gifs, jpegs, etc. regarding this style of preening and posing when the camera’s on him.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Ahhhhhhh.

Come to think of it, I have only seen a couple of pics of El Duce,one of them that jutted jaw headback thing
which trump also copies.

[VOX]

16. Precisely! Arms folded, head back, jaw forward, head nodding, the mouth downturned.

45 knows *just enough* history that he uses it as a weapon. He’s infamously tweeted Mussolini quotes as well.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. I am recalling the pic of him and Jr and Gums

All three side by side with their hair combed back like Gordan Gecko, and chins firmly elevated.

Ugghhhh

[VOX]

18. Charlatans, crooks, freaks and misfits-- all of them.

Never before has our government been occupied by so many ruthless opportunists who’ve previously been utter failures and social outcasts in life.

We haven’t enjoyed a “normal” day since November 2016.

[spanone]

15. She (whoever) does that every time. Treats the press like shit.