President Trump spoke at length with the New York Times last week. In Adam’s post he finished up with this task and charge:
There’s a lot more at the link, including some stuff about health care associations that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Perhaps Dave will eventually try to make sense of it for us.
So let’s find this particular piece of word salad:
TRUMP: Wait, wait, let me just tell you. … Also, beyond the individual mandate, but also [inaudible] associations. You understand what the associations are. …
[Cross talk.]TRUMP: So now I have associations, I have private insurance companies coming and will sell private health care plans to people through associations. That’s gonna be millions and millions of people. People have no idea how big that is. And by the way, and for that, we’ve ended across state lines. So we have competition. You know for that I’m allowed to [inaudible] state lines. So that’s all done.
Now I’ve ended the individual mandate. And the other thing I wish you’d tell people. So when I do this, and we’ve got health care…….
I’ll tell you something [inaudible]. … Put me on the defense, I was a great student and all this stuff. Oh, he doesn’t know the details, these are sick people.
There is a charitable read and there is the read one has after going through It’s A Small World four times in a forty eight hour period.
The charitable read is the president is overclaiming credit for actions that have not yet occurred but are in the pipeline to occur.