Caught On Video: Trump **Promised To Keep Medicare And Social Security As They ARE
We need to hold Trumps feet to the fire on this one.
Caught On Video: Trump Promised To Keep Medicare And Social Security As They ARE
By Karoli Kuns
Donald Trump separated himself out from all of the other Republicans in the field by promising not only to save Medicare and Social Security, but not to change them.
Forget the skepticism from our side for a minute. Millions of voters believed him on that. He reiterated it throughout the campaign, and even used the Affordable Care Act as a wedge with Republican voters, just as they did in 2010.
The Washington Post put together this montage of moments where Trump promised his adoring fans he would preserve the social safety net, particularly Medicare and Social Security, because it was so important to all of those people who had paid into for all these years. There wasn't any fudging on what he said. It's all there, in his words, out of his mouth.
Greg Sargent:
If Trump does go along with Congressional Republicans on this, everyone who covered this race will know full well that he will be flagrantly breaking a campaign promise indeed, hell be breaking a core tenet of Trumpism, as many reporters and commentators defined it. Observers widely cited Trumps supposed refusal to touch entitlements as evidence that he is ideologically different from Republicans such as Ryan.
Trump himself repeatedly drew that distinction, as the video above shows.....................................
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)when he wipes out the real President's legacy legislation that saved lives.
Because Obama made fun of him at a dinner, many will die for that.
And no it is not the real President's fault.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)to take attention off of him or to send a message.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)I pray they are watching those two closely. They certainly have the technology to do so.