Trump U-turns on NHS trade comments, saying 'I don't see it being on the table'

[Soph0571]

Source: The Independent

Donald Trump appears to have performed an abrupt U-turn on his comments that the NHS would be “on the table” in post-Brexit trade talks.

The US president sparked an almighty row when he said that the “NHS or anything else, a lot more than that” would be in the sights of US firms in any deal.

But later on Tuesday he directly contradicted himself, saying instead that “I don’t see it being on the table”.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-uk-visit-nhs-on-table-trade-deal-brexit-latest-a8944586.html

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Someone had a word in his shell like last night, no doubt. I think that the roll back will not be sufficient though. His original comment will be used over and over by remainers...

[dawg day]

1. Nothing he says sticks, except the trash

He will make some huge disruptive pronouncement, then say the opposite a day later (along with "I never said that!&quot . No one can rely on anything he says. I don't know how any foreign leader can make any sense of what he says or does. Everything is so careless and meaningless, with a side of vicious bullying.

[Snellius]

2. When said on table, he didn't even know what it was

May had to tell him.

[SCantiGOP]

21. I don't think he knew what NHS was

He was just faking it.
I think he is really stupid. All of his adult life he has avoided anything except the real estate business, getting laid and creating an image.

[Hortensis]

23. Interest groups told him he's against the NHS. They didn't tell

him to threaten their schemes by going to London and babbling about it.

Yeah, he's unbelievably stupid. His pathological ignorance and personality disorder guarantee that.

[mr_lebowski]

3. I guess someone explained to him what 'National Health Service' really means as a term

and how much NHS means to the people of GB.

He probably thought it was regarded by people there the way that HE regards 'Obamacare'.

That's if he even grasped what 'National Health Service' WAS ... when Theresa May hinted to him what NHS stood for on the podium.

I mean, it's obvious that IQ45 is just a big fan of saying 'it's all on the table' whenever 'negotiations' are discussed. Makes him feel like he's a big ol' MAN, doing his BIGTIME DEALS, where it's 'all on the table' ...

He's such a f***ing asshat.

[riversedge]

4. I saw many UK protestor signs saying HANDS OFF OUR NHS!!

[trusty elf]

5. What a fookin' IDIOT ! ! !

[Celerity]

6. Hey Rump! FOAD ya fucking orange jobby.

[yardwork]

7. I hope the British believe what he said the first time.

The whole point of Brexit is to isolate Britain from the rest of the world so that all the country's institutions can be privatized.

[Soph0571]

8. Yeah he does not fool most of us!

[yardwork]

9. I wish my fellow Americans were that bright!

[TheBlackAdder]

19. US businesses have been investing in British healthcare and slowly trying to undermine it.

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Trump just blabbed.

.

[yardwork]

20. Yep.

[duforsure]

10. Is this another sign

Of health issues from this corrupt con man, say dementia? He's so old he can't keep up with his statements , and often says the opposite sometimes within minutes. He's too old , corrupt, and ill to be in his position.

[McKim]

17. His Dramatic Statements Flame and then Flip Flop

His dramatic flaming statements are designed to tickle the fancy of the extreme Right and to grab headlines so that the press can’t focus on Impeachment and Election Scandals. War on Iran? Oh that was SO last week! Now Pompeo wants to meet with Iran without conditions. What a joke they are! But the press goes along.

[Maxheader]

11. Thats why there is a fat blimp of cheetox in the sky..and why

there are thousands protesting not only your treasonous ass being in their country, but imho...your very existance...

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=m6T3XIfjEofitQWZoZiADQ&q=people+protesting+trump+in+great+britain&oq=people+protesting+trump+in+great+britain&gs_l=psy-ab.12...9481.20355..20557...5.0..1.1264.17558.4-3j6j12j2......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0j0i131.qE4PGyYjyEY

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Query: Will Trump's comments about the NHS being "on the table" with post-Brexit agreements

steer votes away from Boris Johnson as Prime Minister?

[Soph0571]

13. I think it will move people toward a secondon referendum on Brexit

There are a lot of older folks who rely on the NHS completely and who voted for Brexit. A US trade deal would not be nearly as important if we stayed in the EU - ergo....

The problem Johnson has is that he has already pledged a no deal Brexit if a deal cannot be reached by October - that will be linked very clearly by everyone to Trumps comments on the NHS....

It is a conundrum for him, that is for sure.

[marble falls]

14. He's mucked things up here and now he wants to play around with another country's system.

[randr]

15. He is the embodiment of the mass of bull shit we are all dealing with

The over load of information, entertainment, news, views, pics, flixs, etc., etc., has become a tidal wave of enormous proportions.
We need to turn it off. Just stop for a day at least. If he is no longer taken seriously the balloon will deflate. Nothing he utters matters. He is spewing words that have no substance. His only purpose is to capture our attention and distract us from our lives.
It is like the collective consciousness of the internet has manifested in corporate form and it is called Donald.
Soon we will have the opportunity to gather together and turn the channel off.

[Javaman]

16. ...lol

[eppur_se_muova]

18. Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Otto von Bismarck
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/otto_von_bismarck_128297

[DeminPennswoods]

22. Trump didn't even know what NHS is

He probably still doesn't know. Like always, he just said whatever popped into his brain at the time.