Obama is Trump’s go-to scapegoat for White House woes
The president has blamed his predecessor for leaks, protests and even for priming Obamacare to explode after he left office.
.. The former president has emerged as the perfect scapegoat for Trump. The 44th commander in chief is a revered Democratic Party figure who is both loathed by conservatives and, in keeping in line with the precedent of past presidents, unlikely to publicly speak out against his successor.
.. Trump said 2017 was supposed to “be a disaster for Obamacare,” which he and Republicans more broadly campaigned on repealing and replacing.
“That’s the year it was meant to explode because Obama won’t be here,” Trump alleged. “That was when it was supposed to be even worse.”
.. “I want every American to know that action on Obamacare is an urgent necessity,” he said in his address. “The law is collapsing around us, and if we do not act to save Americans from this wreckage, it will take our health care system all the way down with it. If we do nothing, millions more innocent Americans will be hurt — and badly hurt. That’s why we must repeal and replace Obamacare.”