Milbank: Melania hits on apt slogan: I really don't care, do u?
In the 1992 campaign, President George H.W. Bush created an unofficial and much-mocked motto for his administration during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire. “Message: I care,” he announced, as if reading aloud the stage directions.
Melania Trump did much the same last week when she went to Texas to see some of the migrant kids who were taken from their parents under her husband’s policy. The now-famous wording on her jacket made her a human billboard for what should be the unofficial motto of the Trump administration:
“I really don’t care, do u?”
The administration’s cruelty is particularly prominent lately because of photos of the anguish of the migrant children — and Trump’s accompanying allegation of “phony stories of sadness” and his warning that immigrants, like insects, would “infest” the country. But the current episode, though highly visible, is hardly one of a kind. By now, the administration has amassed an extensive catalogue of cruelty.
On Thursday, Trump doomed the latest attempt to protect from deportation the “Dreamers,” those 700,000 people who have known no home but America since they were brought here as children. He tweeted that he didn’t see the “purpose” of the House passing an immigration bill — and, sure enough, the House called off the vote. It was his own executive action that exposed the Dreamers to deportation in the first place.
I really don’t care, do u?
On Wednesday night, Trump renewed his assault on Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, as he dies from brain cancer. Trump again blamed McCain for the failed repeal of Obamacare.
The administration earlier this month decided not to defend the law against a court challenge that if successful would end protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions. Trump has also ended subsidies to help insurance companies cover low-income people, and acknowledged the Obamacare repeal he championed was “mean.” He gave a green light to work requirements for Medicaid that could deny health insurance even to many poor Americans who work.
I really don’t care, do u?
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