It's going to be very sad, Donald, if your Twitter stream is reduced to press releases and memes. Really, Donald.
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Your Social Media Minions pulled together a Twitter "Moment":
► #RepealAndReplace #Obamacare [6]
With a picture of Mike Pence telling Senators how the House GOP's health insurance reform proposals is (one would guess) pretty keen and they should pass it.
Which is good, since you've warned the House GOP that they face an electoral "bloodbath" if they can't managed to get a repeal-and-replace thang done after seven years of kvetching about the ACA.[9]
It's just a shame, Donald, that doctors and hospitals aren't thrilled by the plan.[10] Seems they have some zany concerns that reducing Medicaid, shifting away from needs-based support for health insurance assistance, and messing up the risk pool will mean that the cost of health insurance will go up and the neediest people out there will be thrown out into the cold.
Silly doctors. What do they know about health insurance reform? I mean, that stuff is more complicated that anyone knew! [11]
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► Met with @RepCummings today at the @WhiteHouse. Great discussion! [1*]
Now that the meeting has finally taken place[8], Rep. Cummings had a bit more nuanced and detailed description of the meeting.[7]
'Cummings, a senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said he spoke about African Americans in response to speeches in which Trump has referred to "carnage" in the "inner cities." The president has frequently described cities, including Baltimore, in dire terms.
"I said to him, 'Mr. President, most respectfully, when you're talking about the African-American community, I want you to realize that all African-American communities are not places of depression, where people are being harmed,'" the Baltimore lawmaker said.'
Hope you were listening, Donald.
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Your Social Media Minions pulled together a snazzy screen cap from Fox Business News and gave us:
► _Great news. We are only just beginning. Together, we are going to #MAGA! https://instagram.com/p/BRZROKmg-st/ [2]
Then they retweeted Fox Nation:
► .@realDonaldTrump's First Full Month in Office Sees Biggest Jobs Gain 'In Years': Report: [3] (with linked article[4])
All of which is very nice, to be sure, though both articles are basically just referring to the ADP report that you had already tweeted about earlier in the day.[5] Victory laps are fine, Donald, but (as your PR people are no doubt aware) repeating the same news in different ways can give the impression that multiple people are independently confirming the information. This is just multiple sources (well, Fox) reporting on the same ADP news as each other.
Which, again, is that promises of deregulation and lower taxes (plus an unseasonably warm winter, hmmmm) are leading to an uptick in hiring. Which is great for the people being hired, as long as your promises follow through. It might not be so great for workers or folks in the vicinity of the work when all those safety and discrimination and environmental regulations get lopped away, but, hey, they should be grateful to have jobs, dammit!
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And that was it. No rants. No insults hurtled at Arnold. No bleating about the Fake News Press Media Enemies. No allegations of wiretapping or conspiracies or pollution of precious bodily fluids. It was a downright placid day, Donald
I'm almost disappointed.
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[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/839624377826230272
[2] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/839625347524096000
[3] https://twitter.com/foxnation/status/839645962796683265
[4] http://nation.foxnews.com/2017/03/08/trumps-first-full-month-office-sees-biggest-jobs-gain-years-report
[5] https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/839502021262725120
[6] https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/839582076550672393
[7] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-cummings-trump-meeting-20170308-story.html
[8] http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/elijah-cummings-trump-meeting-drug-price/
[9] http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/donald-trump-health-care/index.html
[10] http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/08/politics/american-medical-association-health-care-bill/index.html
[11] http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/27/politics/trump-health-care-complicated/
[*] Also cross-posted at POTUS, so you know it's important.
Health care providers oppose GOP bill to repeal Obamacare
The nation’s leading hospital and doctor groups are lining up against the Republican health care bill, saying they fear millions of Americans will lose coverage.
Maybe someone played hide-and-seek with Donald's phone so that the SMMs (social media minions) had full control.
Doctors and hospitals will naturally gravitate to a solution that maximizes the funds that they will receive, as well as their own employability. While a solution with minimal participation and high costs will take care of the money part, it won't take care of the employability. 100% health care coverage, however, will maximize funds (provided the caps aren't too onerous) and will require so many doctors and medical staff that we'll need to bring in more non-U.S. doctors … wait a minute…
I don't think that any solution – Obamacare, Trumpcare, or TeaPartyCare – will satisfy Martin Shkreli.