Now that the GOP’s healthcare bill is officially dead on arrival, it’s probably for the best that we all move on as a country and maybe, just maybe, learn to work together. Although while that sounds great in theory, obviously it’s never going to happen as long as Donald Trump is running the show, who took the opportunity on Tuesday to immediately point the finger at Senate Democrats for their stubborn refusal to strip millions of their health insurance, claiming, “We’ll let Obamacare fail and then Democrats are going to come to us.”
By Wednesday morning, the bill’s failure was clearly still a sore subject for Trump, who once again continued his screed against Democrats in 140 characters, tweeting that he would be having lunch at the White House with Republican Senators today to discuss healthcare, adding, “The Republicans never discuss how good their healthcare bill is, & it will get even better at lunchtime. The Dems scream death as OCare dies!”
I will be having lunch at the White House today with Republican Senators concerning healthcare. They MUST keep their promise to America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2017
The Republicans never discuss how good their healthcare bill is, & it will get even better at lunchtime.The Dems scream death as OCare dies!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2017
So pretty much par for the course, given the eloquent and well reasoned level of discourse we’ve come to expect from the president. And as usual, the tweets warranted the same well reasoned reaction of the internet, which pointed out that Trump sounds like he’s come up with the perfect band name and/or music lyrics, and/or something else.
I saw Dems Scream Death open for Black Sabbath once.
— Ben White (@EconomyBen) July 19, 2017
OK, now we're just tweeting Warped Tour bands. pic.twitter.com/eydvSvhJYI
— Jen Lewis (@thisjenlewis) July 19, 2017
Dems Scream Death is the name of my new metal band. Please check out our first single, OCare Dies, available now on LieTunes. https://t.co/GPxFG99IHV
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 19, 2017
"The Dems scream 'death!' as Ocare dies!
She was a thief,
you got to belief,
she stole my heart and my cat" pic.twitter.com/7Hse1JQBRf— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) July 19, 2017
“The Dems scream death as Ocare dies” does have a strange sort of poetry to it.
— Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) July 19, 2017
Tell me this wouldn't make an outstanding pulp novel pic.twitter.com/DgthURFU1f
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) July 19, 2017
https://twitter.com/jesseberney/status/887658914589880320
I saw Scream Death open for No Doubt in 1999 https://t.co/2YtSvB47ut
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 (@senatorshoshana) July 19, 2017
"The Dems scream death as Ocare dies
Summons up the living dead
Virgin flesh lies tied and bound
Hail Satan!"#TrumpMetal pic.twitter.com/NTl4VfXObR— TBogg (@tbogg) July 19, 2017
Others, however, pointed out some of the more sobering realities of the so-called “death” of Obamacare.
We scream death as OCare dies because that's what we'll get. Death. That's what Trumpcare is. Death.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) July 19, 2017
Or innocent American families scream death as their loved ones die bc u took their healthcare away to make a point
Whens lunch? Im starvin😐 https://t.co/IWoaOlzaKx
— ALBΞRT MacGloan (@AlbertMacGloan) July 19, 2017
https://twitter.com/mrdefender1983/status/887671255213670400