‘I Thought That When I Won, I Would Go to the Oval Office, Sit Down at My Desk, and There Would Be a Healthcare Bill on My Desk’
Revealing just how incredibly unprepared to be president he was and still is, at a press event Wednesday Donald Trump told reporters he thought he wouldn’t have to lift a finger – much less a telephone or microphone – to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Despite decades of commenting on politics, on the Howard Stern show, on Fox News and in other media outlets, and later via Twitter, it turns out the Manhattan real estate baron has very little understanding of even the very basics of the American political system.
“I thought that when I won, I would go to the Oval Office, sit down at my desk, and there would be a healthcare bill on my desk, to be honest,” Trump told reporters Wednesday, lamenting, “it hasn’t worked out that way.”
It took President Barack Obama, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and hundreds of Democratic lawmakers – not to mention many advocacy groups and you, the American people – 14 months of delivering speeches across the country, holding town halls, appearing on news and talk shows, letter writing campaigns, and many other forms of educating the American people, to pass ObamaCare.
And Donald Trump thought he would have a healthcare bill on his desk on January 20, all without lifting a finger. Just because he was elected.
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