Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price was the guest on Meet the Press Sunday, and he got very defensive when host Chuck Todd dared to ask about President Trump’s incredibly hateful and sexists tweets which were aimed at MNSBC host Mika Brzezinski. Price told Todd:
“What I’m concentrated on is the job that [Trump’s] given me.”
So Todd tried a different approach, asking the HHS Secretary:
“If your son tweeted to a woman like that, what would you say to him?”
Again, Priced tried to dodge the question:
“The challenge that I’ve been given is to address the health care program. And your program, a program with the incredible history of Meet the Press, and that’s what you want to talk about?”
That’s when Chuck Todd resorted to what every Republican fears most: Facts. He told Price:
“All due respect, you’re blaming me for what the president of the United States has spent his entire week focused on?”
Price sniped back:
“No, listen to me. With all due respect, the American people are talking about a health care system that is not providing choices, where premiums are going up…that’s what I and the president are working on.”
Which led Todd to ask the logical follow-up question:
“Why isn’t the president as devoted to this as you are?”
To that, Price ridiculously replied:
“He can do more than one thing at a time.”
No, he can’t, and he proved that this week. This was supposed to be a week where the entire Republican party was focused on healthcare and trying to sell their crappy replacement for Obamacare. Instead, Trump chose to spend the week hurling personal insults at a cable news host. So much for taking the high road or doing more than one thing at a time.
The GOP needs to face the facts: This president is a failure, a train wreck, a daily embarrassment to them and the entire nation. With Independence Day just around the corner, isn’t it time Republicans cut their ties to this demented clown and declared their independence from his madness?
This article was originally published by the same author at LiberalAmerica.org