'Hey, I'm President!'--Donald Trump's All-Madness, No-Method Administration - by Margaret Carlson
‘CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?’
‘Hey, I’m President!’—Donald Trump’s All-Madness, No-Method Administration
Trump believes in Trump winning. Everything else, though, is up for negotiation. Sad!
MARGARET CARLSON
05.08.17 1:00 AM ET
It may look like Trump’s governing is a result of which side of the bed he gets up on before tweeting, but two themes are emerging.
The first is he must be as removed from life’s losers as possible. Everything, even his own words, pale next to winning, on whatever terms—as we saw with the House health-care vote last week that revealed his prior promise to provide better insurance at a lower cost while covering pre-existing conditions as a sham.
The second is his belief in flattery as a means to winning. That, too, was at work in Trump’s all-out effort to erase his first legislative defeat with a steaming mess that strips health care from millions, a “win” so bad that it’s headed for a mercy killing in the Senate. But that’s tomorrow. Speaker Paul Ryan who’s wanted to slash Medicaid since he was drinking beer from a keg, wanted to wait —but not Trump. To shake that icky loser feeling, the Trump administration did its bit to cobble together a hodgepodge of a bill and set about flattering some members, and threatening others, with how smart they are, like Rep. Chris Collins who admitted he hadn’t even read the bill before voting for it and leaving town. If town halls were ugly before, imagine them now as people read estimates that under Trumpcare asthma sufferers would be paying $4,ooo more per year, those with diabetes, $5,500, and cancer, $140,000. By no means get pregnant as insurers can remove maternity coverage. It’s a boy! He just cost you $17,000.
But the strains of Rocky had hardly faded from the pep rally Speaker Paul Ryan held to rev up his troops before the president reversed field. By the time he landed in New York to meet Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, whom he hung up on in February, he was flattering him, sincerely or not, for his single-payer system in the Down Under, declaring “You have better healthcare than we do.”
He may well believe that and not know that the bill he’s embraced wouldn’t help change that, because he doesn’t sweat the details and is always intent on flattering the one he’s with. Because buttering him up works—Trump’s said he likes people who like him—slathering Land o’ Lakes on others will too. Domestically, he tried it on Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer before realizing he’d barked up the wrong New Yorker.
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Because buttering him up works—Trump’s said he likes people who like him—slathering Land o’ Lakes on others will too. Domestically, he tried it on Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer before realizing he’d barked up the wrong New Yorker.
(Forgiving the mixed metaphor.)
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