"He was playing with a firetruck, trying on a cowboy hat as the bill was collapsing. He had no clue"

[Miles Archer]

Washington (CNN)The collapse of the Republican bid to repeal and replace Obamacare Monday, alongside chaos brewed by the Russia scandal, has revealed a stunted presidency and a White House struggling to master the levers of power.

It also leaves President Donald Trump without a significant legislative triumph to show for his first six months in office.

"He was playing with a firetruck and trying on a cowboy hat as the bill was collapsing and he had no clue," a top Republican told CNN's Jeff Zeleny on Tuesday, mocking the "Made In America" week at the White House.

"We're not going to own it. I'm not going to own it. I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We'll let Obamacare fail and then the Democrats are going to come to us," Trump told reporters at the White House.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/trump-health-care-failure/index.html

[Corgigal]

1. Yo GOP

Trump isn't a republican, he's just a Trump. Couldn't care less, you look like fools thinking he has any political capital to move anything. You allowed him to hijack your party, idiots.

[volstork]

4. Exactly.

Treason of the highest order, and those asshats couldn't care less.

[Maven]

5. Oh, but he is a Republican. He is their putrid essence in human form. They own him and he owns them.

Or as DUer LaydeeBug often says: Tether that chicken.

[JI7]

6. Nope. They own him now. They had many chances to reject him but never do

[gratuitous]

2. A "top Republican," Mr. Zeleny?

What's the point of granting this person anonymity? It's not like the "top Republican" is betraying a state secret by recounting President Trump's hi-jinks that he's engaging in rather than governance. Why not put this "top Republican" on the record, so the public can evaluate just how high up Republican disgust with Trump goes? Because right now anyone who might be considered a "top Republican" is on the record as marching lock-step with this misadministration.

[procon]

3. The man is deranged!

Letting Obamacare fail will require Republicans to vote to sabotage it, and that will hurt millions of Americans who have any kind of insurance. Democrats will never enable Trumps vindictive attempts to kill off the ACA. Trump already owns this mess and the Republicans know they have painted themselves into a corner.

[maxsolomon]

9. the already did vote to sabotage it

Rubio's 2012 poison pill capped the Insurance Risk Corridor reimbursements.

[Solly Mack]

7. Make-believe fireman. Make-believe cowboy. Make-believe president.

Make-believe human.

[nolabear]

8. Yippee ki-yay motherfucker.

[central scrutinizer]

10. All hat, no cattle but lots of bullshit

And I do mean lots

[LuckyLib]

21. Ain't that the truth!

[smirkymonkey]

11. What a complete disaster!

[beam me up scottie]

12. He's completely oblivious.

Now he's lashing out at everyone like an angry, confused toddler.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. Hey, Grover

Is he still your Fantasy president ?

[oasis]

14. "I can play 'cause Mitch got that Obamacare thingy covered".

[Ray Bruns]

15. When are the Republicans and the MAGA crowd going to learn.

Donald Trump is a narcissistic, misogynistic, sociopathic con man. Donald Trump only gives a damn about Donald Trump. He has no agenda but himself. He couldn't give a rat's behind about anyone in this country but himself. But the Republicans and the MAGA crowd drank the cool aid. They will get what they deserve, NOTHING!

[tclambert]

16. Well, he doesn't know how to play a fiddle.

You could call playing with fire trucks "alternative fiddling."

[Hekate]

17. That's a helluva vivid line, isn't it? One for the history books...

Interesting line about "struggling to master the levers of power," too.

I remember that one of the knocks on Hillary was how dangerous she would be "because she knows where the levers of power are." Like it was a bad thing instead of a measure of competence and experience in governance. *holes. Now look what we have.

[pandr32]

19. Agreed!

[PatSeg]

18. It is all performance for Trump

He likes winning and being the center of attention, policy is for nerds. He doesn't even know what the so-called Trumpcare bill is about.

[Doreen]

20. Had???

No, he HAS no clue.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. That's a big cow pie under that hat

[mahatmakanejeeves]

23. I wear a cowboy hat. (Just because I like them. They're a lot of fun.)

As soon as I saw those hats on the table, I knew he was going to do that. I had to turn off the video. I couldn't watch.

***** isn't going to make me stop wearing mine. I'm still wearing it.

I'm at work, so I can't say offer my commentary. I'll get back to you later.

[Grammy23]

24. What next? tRump sticks his fingers in his ears

and starts yelling "La, la, la, la, la----I can't hear you!"

That would certainly fit the emotional maturity of tRump.

[crazycatlady]

25. hmm fire trucks and cowboy hats

Wouldn't be very out of place in a preschool classroom. However a grandfather to preschoolers should not be doing this in his day job.

[underpants]

26. *applause* yeah you put on the cowboy hat good Donnie

[gademocrat7]

27. Dolt45 unhinged and uncaring.

[CountAllVotes]

28. Big Boss Man

[Crunchy Frog]

29. A toddler in a 71 year old body.