#NOTHINGMATTERS. Trump Takes Four Health Care Positions in 48 Hours, Aides Shrug

[DonViejo]

Don’t like President Trump’s position on health care? Wait a few minutes. It might change.

LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
07.19.17 6:05 PM ET

President Donald Trump can’t seem to decide what he wants Congress to do on health care, but internally, aides say there isn’t much point in keeping him on message, and they’ve generally stopped trying.

“There is no mechanism in place for making sure the president stays on message when he doesn’t have one,” a senior Trump administration official told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. There’s also “no real [internal] effort to keep him from contradicting” himself on what, exactly, the GOP’s next steps on health care should be, the official said.
But it may not matter.

Though Trump exhibits a lack of understanding of the health care system he hopes to reform, and often makes public statements that contradict the official White House message, the legislative process, aides say, is mostly out of his hands at this point. Trump will continue to be engaged in the fight for Obamacare repeal, White House and congressional officials said on Wednesday. But it’s not immediately clear that he has settled on what policy to push.

The president has floated no fewer than four different health care proposals in the past 48 hours. As the Senate GOP’s Obamacare replacement bill hit the skids on Monday evening, Trump mused that they should simply go for repeal and leave it at that. The following morning, as the repeal efforts prospect’s diminished further, Trump suggested leaving Obamacare in place—”as I have always said”—and waiting for what he’s described as its inevitable failure before officially repealing it and moving on a replacement.

On Wednesday morning, after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had admitted that the Republican repeal effort lacked the necessary support, Trump was back to promoting Obamacare replacement. “The Republicans never discuss how good their health care bill is,” he complained.

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[BigmanPigman]

1. I do know how many times he changed his mind...

I just totaled the number of new ulcers he has given me since last summer. I am one of the 32 million who is sick and will become even more sick (and bankrupt).

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. So very appreciative of DonViejo - brings current events above the fold...

IMHO this is not about trump - it is about the republiklan agenda...and that includes Pence..so smug sitting in the chair of this voter fraud committee ...I digress..

This voter suppression effort - by design - Healthcare debacle, by design - so many Unamerican policies - by design -
I will just suggest you simply read some of the reviews of - Democracy In Chains..

Be well all...

[COLGATE4]

3. He doesn't know, doesn't understand and doesn't give a shit

what is in the Health Care proposal of the moment. All he wants in his little paranoid mind is something - - anything -- he can call a "win".

[NastyRiffraff]

4. Aides are used to shrugging by now

They literally have no idea of what Dump will do or say in any given moment. They're constantly being put in the awkward position of changing their own stories (a la Spicer, Huckabee Sanders) to match Dump's latest lie.