It’s only been two days since Donald Trump won the 2016 Presidential election, but in that time, his position on numerous policies has changed. During his campaign trail, President-elect Trump promised his supporters that he’d repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (also known as “Obamacare”), as well as withdraw the US’ military support from South Korea.
48 hours after Hillary Clinton conceded the win to Trump, he’s changed his stance on both. The Independent reports that after Donald Trump met with President Barack Obama in the White House and the pair discussed the highlights of the Obama administration – particularly the fact that 20 million Americans have received healthcare with the Affordable Care Act (and 100,000 have signed up for Obamacare in the past 48 hours), Trump had a change of heart.
At the time of this writing, Donald Trump has said that he will only amend the Affordable Care Act, rather than repeal it. In fact, repealing the law outright may not be his plan going forward. This declaration has shocked many, particularly Congressional Republicans such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan. McConnell has said that repealing Obamacare is “pretty high” on his list of priorities for the next four years. And House Speaker Paul Ryan is presently asking Trump to allow him to privatize Medicare and terminate Obamacare, reports Salon. Americans have until January 31, 2017 to enroll in or change existing health coverage for the 2017 calendar year.
Another surprise came when Donald Trump promised to maintain the existing security alliance between the United States and South Korea. Reportedly, President-elect Trump spoke directly with President Park Geun-hye of South Korea on the phone to discuss Washington’s long-standing promise to defend her country.
After it became clear that Donald Trump would, in fact, be America’s next leader, stock markets in South Korea crashed. This prompted President Geun-hye to hold an emergency meeting with her national security council to safeguard the country’s future. According to a statement from President Geun-hye’s office, Trump told her:
“We will be steadfast and strong with respect to working with you to protect against the instability in North Korea.”
At one point during the10-minute phone call, she said:
“I expect that [we] can strengthen and develop the alliance down the road for the shared interests in various areas.”
South Korea’s President also raised concern about North Korea’s nuclear issue, saying it was the “greatest threat” facing the two countries.
“Given that in the past, North Korea staged provocations during the period of the government transition in the US, we need to closely cooperate in advance to thoroughly deter possible North Korean provocations and respond sternly if provoked,” she said.
According to International Business Times, Trump then responded that the US will work with South Korea “until the end” for the security of both countries. This is a stark contrast from what Trump suggested happen during his campaign trail. In a January interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump said: “We have 28,000 soldiers on the line in South Korea between the madman and them. We get practically nothing compared to the cost of this.” And in March, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper:
“We are better off frankly if South Korea is going to start protecting itself. They have to protect themselves or they have to pay us.”
To summarize, two days after winning the election, Donald Trump has gone back on two of the biggest promises he repeatedly put forward to supporters throughout his entire campaign. Is this good news? Bad news? We’ll let you decide. Please comment below and share this news!
Praise God hubs and I are healthy taking the few pills i have to take daily for blood pressure. I never understood how overnight everyone who WAS happy w their health ins had their lives turned upside down! The only reason we are ok is i am Medcare/Tri Care because hubs Ret from the AF. My daughter has a 7000.00 deductable, a serious illness and i don’t know how they do it. So i am glad he will keep the precondition part of the OC. But listening to her describe how she is treated at the Clinic on her drugs, they make her sound like an Addict. All i know is the Immigrants all get theirs taken care of and the rest of you basically deal w it or you die from the lack of care.
If he keeps even one promise I will be shocked. As for ObamaCare, it will implode anyway–no one will be able to afford it, or incomes will deteriorate so badly that almost everyone will be able to claim the cost of ObamaCare will be more than 8-10 percent of annual income (one of several tax exemptions regarding “line 61” on the 1040), or the so-called individual mandate will disappear anyway…besides, that “penalty” some folks are paying for no reason won’t ever solve the govt. debt problem anyway, why even bother? Only reason this “tax” is paid is because many Americans are too unaware that they can claim one of several exemptions. Only folks who should get ObamaCare at all are folks with serious and chronic health conditions where the ridiculous deductible could be called a drop in the bucket to what their expenses would be. Mostly healthy folks should not even bother with it.
“Only reason this “tax” is paid is because many Americans are too unaware that they can claim one of several exemptions.”
One other reason as well, DL.
Many Americans are too unaware that they shouldn’t be paying ANY taxes to this so-called ‘government’.
They should be shooting the thieving bast@rds ON THE SPOT when they show up for their mammon extraction.
The 1040 is only for federal employees. If you are not a federal employee then use the correct form and the bottom line will come out that you owe zero.
They might lie to you and tell you that the 1040 is the correct form, but it is not. The IRS is a private corporation incorporated in Puerto Rico who collects money for the Federal Reserve Bank must have its charter revoked for America to be prosperous again. The Rothschild banking cartel must be stopped and we must seize their 500 trillion dollars and return it to the American tax payer not Washington.
No one man can do it all by himself. We must as Americans email, write, call our Senators, Congressman, and President and demand what he said he would do. We also must not reelect any Senators or congressmen, but elect all new. Those in Washington now cant do right if they wanted because they are being blackmailed by people like George Soros, Rothschild, etc… That’s what happens when they cheat on their wives, take a bribe, do drugs, or sleep with little boys and girls. So they must not be reelected.