People Are Schooling Donald Trump For A Twitter Rant Claiming ‘8 Dems’ Are Blocking His Obamacare Repeal

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Another day, another crushing failure and humiliating defeat for the Trump administration. When it became clear Monday that the Senate’s version of the American Health Care Act was dead in the water, the president took to Twitter late Monday night to insist — contradicting his previous promises to repeal and replace — that Republicans should just repeal altogether and figure something out at a later date TBD, adding that this will allow congress to “start from a clean slate,” and that “Dems will join in!”

However Tuesday morning, when it became clear that even a simple repeal would probably not fly with the Senate, an increasingly irate Trump returned to his platform of choice to blame the whole thing (yet again) on Democrats, along with a select “few Republicans.” Because clearly the President of the United States does not understand the difference between a monocracy and a democracy, and that he needs to work with both sides of the political aisle (including his own) to be able to get shit done.

It was Trump’s final tweet on the subject that people seemed to take the most umbrage with, though, because … just what the heck is he talking about, here? At 52 senators, they literally have the Senate majority. Also, that’s not how math works!

Others were just as baffled:

https://twitter.com/evanoconnell/status/887304556828385280

https://twitter.com/evanoconnell/status/887304743781105664

https://twitter.com/evanoconnell/status/887305126037377024

https://twitter.com/SOLOAMERICAN76/status/887317736380092417

https://twitter.com/JameyFunny/status/887324182899343360

https://twitter.com/ColleenScanlon/status/887318701413945344

https://twitter.com/LVonTheMove/status/887336911370502145

What the president was seemingly trying to say was that eight Democratic senators (combined with 52 Republican senators) are holding back the 60 votes needed for the healthcare repeal, when in fact a few members of his own party have already come out against it. So even if they did go to a 51 vote majority that still may not help him accomplish his goal of depriving millions of Americans of health insurance. Better luck next time, fam.