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janx

(24,128 posts)
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:27 PM Feb 2017

What does this even mean?! From Trump's speech at start of press conference:

"We've begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster, folks. It is's disaster. I know you can say, oh, Obamacare. I mean, they fill up our alleys with people that you wonder how they get there, but they are not the Republican people our that representatives are representing."

What the hell does that mean?!

Source: CNN transcript

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/donald-trump-news-conference-transcript/

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TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)
1. I'm thinking he means protesters??? But it's certainly open to interpretation since the old
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:29 PM
Feb 2017

gasbag doesn't make sense.

 

bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
2. The press should start a weekly column of questions not answered and some of those should be WTF did
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:29 PM
Feb 2017

You say here?

janx

(24,128 posts)
7. I accessed this speech at YouTube
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:38 PM
Feb 2017

and I could not understand what he said, so I then searched for a transcript, and I'll be damned but I still cannot understand what he's trying to say!

This is astonishingly inarticulate.

leftstreet

(36,098 posts)
5. 'not the Republican people our that representatives are representing'
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:37 PM
Feb 2017

That's not the first time he's said that

Does he not know that elected officials represent everyone?

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
6. Immigrants, illegals, minorities, etc.
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:37 PM
Feb 2017

Whoever you want "them" to be. That's the clever thing about these vague allusions. "They" can be whatever boogeyman lurks in the mind of the listener. Mexicans, blacks, Jews, liberals...

salin

(48,955 posts)
9. That only republicans are his people - so the protesters... aren't real
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:40 PM
Feb 2017

people because they aren't republicans.

Chiyo-chichi

(3,573 posts)
11. "they fill up our rallies..." is what he said.
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:44 PM
Feb 2017

A bad transcription makes his awful nonsense even worse.

"They" (anyone who deigns to oppose Trump) fill up our rallies with people that you wonder how they get there... (suggesting that any protesters are "paid protesters&quot but they are not the Republican people that our representatives are representing (His message here is clear: "I won. Any protesters are in the minority. You're either with me or against me... and if you're against me, you are less than nothing and deserve no representation in Washington.&quot

janx

(24,128 posts)
13. Thank you.
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:53 PM
Feb 2017

I'm glad you could clarify. I thought he said "alleys," too, when I listened to it. F'in gibberish! And what difference do his campaign rallies make now that he is president?

demmiblue

(36,823 posts)
12. The only thing I could come up with is this:
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:44 PM
Feb 2017

More people are actually receiving health care now due to Obamacare, but the influx of these people are causing back ups that force others (Republicans) to have to wait for services provided by health care institutions. These people are bottom-feeders who are sucking on the American teat (because, you know, those who are forced to work part time/gig jobs and/or whose companies deny them health insurance benefits are LOSERS). And, of course, they are Democrats (and by Democrats, he probably means inter-city people of color).

Some of this is very similar to the Republican talking points about Canadian healthcare.

Arsehole.

janx

(24,128 posts)
15. He's just stuck in
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:58 PM
Feb 2017

perpetual campaign mode. I'm going to search the transcript to see if he mentions Hillary Clinton. He did at the recent Florida rally.

He does not seem to grasp the idea that he is supposed to represent the American people, not just those who voted for him.

malchickiwick

(1,474 posts)
17. He makes the shrub sound like Cicero.
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:58 PM
Feb 2017

I never thought I'd find myself missing the eloquence of G. W. B.

janx

(24,128 posts)
19. I thought the same thing.
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 03:09 PM
Feb 2017

The only person I can think of who rivals him for syntax mangling is Sarah Palin.

world wide wally

(21,738 posts)
18. Translation: I have no idea WTF I, or KellyAnn, or Spicer, is talking about, but it sounds scary
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 03:07 PM
Feb 2017

and my supporters and another third of the country will eat this shit up because they are dumber than me.
MAGA.

janx

(24,128 posts)
21. Here is an excerpt (with one typo) of a transcript of his rally in Florida.
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 04:07 PM
Feb 2017

When he begins to talk about Obamacare, he is nonsensical again. What does this mean?

"It will be repealed and replaced. For those people. The people put into rooms where Republicans are talking about the plan, and it wouldn't matter what they say, for those people just so you understand, our plan will be much better health care at a much lower coast. Okay? Nothing to complain about. Obamacare remember, it is a disaster."




Edited to add link:
http://www.ajc.com/news/national/read-full-transcript-trump-rally-speech-florida/DeDCpoNEKLQmWcIKndWB0M/

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