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Video of Trump vowing to terminate Obamacare goes viral after he backtracks (www.newsweek.com)

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Video of former President Donald Trump vowing to terminate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went viral on social media on Friday after he reversed his position on the issue last month.

Trump, the presumed 2024 GOP presidential nominee, is set to face off against President Joe Biden later this year in a likely rematch of the 2020 election, as each candidate has won enough delegates to secure their party's presidential nomination.

Trump has repeatedly vowed to repeal the ACA, which was developed under former President Barack Obama and is more commonly known as "Obamacare," since launching his political career with a successful 2016 presidential bid. He attempted to kill the program shortly after taking office, but was blocked by Republicans who resisted the move in the Senate.

However, in a late March Truth Social post, Trump seemingly reversed his position by endorsing the ACA, while promising to keep the program in place, but make it "much, much, much better" during a potential second term.

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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 99 points 7 months ago

Sigh. Trump voters don't care about what Liberals say he used to say. They listen to what he is saying now, with his steadfast positions that he has always held, because he is a man of "principal". He is always right, even when he changes his mind. He was right then, too, but also now. It's all part of His plan, which Liberals can't understand, because they want to kill babies.

Got it?

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago

Nobody ever even cares when he contradicts himself in one sentence, why would they care he did it with a time gap?

[-] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

This is the real thing here. It feels to me like going after him about changing his stance on the ACA has the effect of making him seem more coherent, not less. If you asked him to give his stance on the ACA today, within about two minutes he would probably say he was for it and against it and that he created it and that it’s illegal and that he’ll make it better or already made it better, while also making it clear he doesn’t actually know what it does

[-] Bridger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

As his language skills deteriorate further they'll celebrate his secret magical private language with multiple layers of hidden cofefe meaning. His slide into dementia will be the proof of his genius in their minds.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 7 months ago

A lot of people have forgotten that the lead up to the 2016 election, Republicans had passed bills in the house and Senate to do a full repeal of Obamacare. Something like 80+ times. Obama, of course, vetoed it. As the Republicans knew he would.

Trump comes into office, with a Republican majority and suddenly those bills stop.

Not a single bill goes through the house or Senate to do the full repeal.

Why?

BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS KNEW TRUMP WOULD SIGN IT!

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago

why wouldnt they want to actually repeal it?

the could proclaim victory whilst screwing over the poor and vulnerable, with the backing of their voters.

is the assumption that they dont want their voters to find out that Obamacare actually saved their asses?

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 7 months ago

Yes. Republicans know how much their constituents actually like the benefits. They hate "Obamacare" but love the Affordable Care Act.

It's kind of like Social Security. All of the Republicans say they hate it but they aren't going to touch it with a 10-foot pole.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

"SoCiAlism bAd!" said the veteran who lived on base, shopped at the commissary, used the GI Bill and then takes a social security check every month with guv'mint insurance.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 41 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah. I remember how he had this secret better replacement all ready and it never materialized.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 7 months ago

It was always two weeks away from being revealed/voted on.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I remember the ghouls celebrating with beer (Bud Light, prior to their trans freakout) over the House voting to repeal.

[+] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net -31 points 7 months ago

Why is it a problem that a politician changes their mind on some topic after getting more information about it?

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 77 points 7 months ago

Because he's lying

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 31 points 7 months ago

Precisely. There’s a big difference between learning something new and improving, and bad faith.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In general, it's usually a good thing and indicates they're responding to new information rather than digging in with entrenched beliefs based on outdated information.

However, with this guy, he just says whatever he thinks will make the ratings go up. He also lies and bullshits with impunity, and that's when he knows what he's saying at all.

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

I don’t know why it’s just occurring to me now but he’s the crypto currency of presidential candidates. Say or do anything, so long as line goes up.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thanks to George W. Bush, the idea that a politician could change their mind based on new information got popularized as being a “flip flopper”, and discourse was shut off thanks to the juvenile repetition of the term, along with “stay the course” and “you wouldn’t change horses mid-stream” phrases that W was noted for.

So changing your mind as a politician is always a difficult thing because opponents will attack you for it, and of course it’s bad in the US thanks to the grade-school level of discourse in congress choosing things like “flip flopper”, “snowflake”, or claiming earthquakes and floods are punishment from god.

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