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🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | I want to show you what it is supposed to look like on the day a the Affordable Care Act finally passed the House. |
0:39.4 | It's probably very familiar to everybody watching. |
0:41.9 | Everyone in that room, nervously watching the screen, really quiet, waiting for that final vote to come in. |
0:47.4 | Then everyone erupts in cheers. |
0:49.2 | The president hugs the vice president, high fives all around. |
0:52.9 | And all of that is what passing major legislation |
0:56.4 | you're really proud of looks like in a normal administration. You kind of have to wonder, |
1:03.4 | if and when Donald Trump's big ugly bill passes the house and reaches his desk, will there be |
1:07.9 | hugs and high fives? Will they celebrate like the Obama team did on that day in |
1:11.8 | 2010? Will they put out a video of it? I raised that question because if what Donald Trump did today |
1:18.2 | is any sort of a guide, it seems like he'd rather be talking about pretty much anything else. |
1:25.8 | I mean, today after the Senate voted to rip health care away from millions of |
1:29.1 | Americans, Trump departed D.C. for a different kind of swamp of sorts. His new Florida tent prison |
1:35.9 | for immigrants, the one he calls alligator alcatraz, and is literally selling merchandise around as |
1:41.8 | well, which is gross. He spent the day touring cages in a makeshift tent |
1:46.6 | instead of focusing on the only major legislation he has put forward in his second term. |
1:52.2 | The signature legislation that his biggest supporters in Congress claim is basically his legacy. |
1:59.4 | And it wasn't like he didn't have any opportunities to talk about the big ugly bill along |
2:02.6 | the way. |
2:03.1 | I mean, every chance he got, every chance, he stopped to talk to reporters. |
2:06.7 | But he was always focused on something else. |
2:10.1 | Like when he departed for Florida and casually mused, just casually, to a tabloid journalist |
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