Rush Limbaugh famously doesn’t have guests on his show. He will do some callers, all heavily pre-screened, but for the most part, Rush is a one-man show. He likes it that way, the message is that much “clearer.” He is “so right” that he doesn’t require an echo, or independent thought, nope, it’s all in his head.

But Limbaugh made an exception today for a desperate man. Trump knows better to show his face and talk into any camera nowadays. He can’t look well. And yet even in answering questions, he still manages to appear … quite unwell!

Trump got this question from a caller, which should’ve been a softball:

‘I’m glad that you and the lady are recovering from COVID, so happy you’re our president thank you for all you do to defender us. Questions about health care and pre-existing conditions are very important to me and a lot of Americans. I believe you said pre-existing conditions will be covered in your health care plan, but please could you explain this a little more because there are a lot of people saying you’re not going to cover pre-existing conditions and I wish you need to get your message out since this that the Democrats are trying to malign you on this.”

We mentioned that the question “should have been a softball,” but it’s not because Trump doesn’t HAVE a healthcare plan, he has issued an executive order saying it’s “U.S. policy,” but insurances companies are unimpressed by “national policies,” since they aren’t laws. Meanwhile, Trump’s DOJ is weeks away from asking the SCOTUS to throw out the ACA, along with its protections against pre-existing conditions.

This, of course, launched Trump into a totally unrelated and unhinged attack on Democrats:

“The Democrats are vicious and they lie, and what they do, as an example health care and other things. They have me standing at the grave of beautiful soldier at an old cemetery, magnificent cemetery, and nobody respects soldiers more than I do, especially whether you’re talking about live soldiers or soldiers that gave their lives, and they have a source say these are suckers and losers. This was for a magazine that’s third-rate, you know super-liberal Obama magazine, and it’s a quote, they took that quote from one source I have 25 people that verbally, that, you know, on the record, said that was never said. Who would ever say that? Only an animal would say that.”

You will note that the answer has nothing to do with covering people with pre-existing conditions and everything to do with pre-existing insecurities in a man who is struggling with sanity and physical health right now.

Limbaugh did get Trump back around to pre-existing conditions, as one would think that a late-stage cancer patient might be able to do:

Pre-existing conditions, I’m totally for, but I’m against Obamacare because Obamacare is too expensive. I already got rid of the individual mandate, which is the worst part of Obamacare, that we had to pay a fortune for the privilege of not paying for bad health insurance. You understand that. So I got rid of it, that was I got rid of it through the law. I got rid of it under our tax decrease, the the biggest tax decrease in the history of our country. We would have never been able to build up the economy if we didn’t get that, but one of the things I got in, I got rid of the individual mandate and what I want to do is, and I sort of have terminated Obamacare, because once you get rid of the individual mandate it’s no longer Obamacare, but I had a choice to make. Rush, it was a big choice. Do I maintain Obamacare, the remnants of Obamacare, after that the, you know, the mandate. Do I maintain it well or do I run it badly? I could have done it either way.”

What no one has explained to Trump is that “once you get rid of the individual mandate” insurance becomes unaffordable if it covers pre-existing conditions. What is to stop someone from holding off on buying insurance until they’re diagnosed with cancer? Trump doesn’t know, nor care.

Limbaugh had to continually get Trump back on topic, sometimes with limited success:

What they do is they love to say that I’m going to get rid of pre-existing conditions. No. I want to terminate Obamacare and then come up with a great, and we have come up with a great health care plan that’s much less expensive and does include people with pre-existing conditions. That’s what I want to do.

He had four years. Two of them with Republicans controlling both Houses. He STILL doesn’t have a healthcare plan – he has an order on U.S. policy, but wants people to vote him in on this nebulous “thing” he promises to be better?

Unbelievable.

Oh, and here is Trump using the f-word, so presidential:

“If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before.” — the President of the United States pic.twitter.com/RfDKchaw7i

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 9, 2020

Oh, and don’t forget about the exploding trees!

"In Europe, you go there, they have forest nations, they call them Austria, different places. They don't have the woods burning down, and their trees are more explosive than ours, meaning explosive from potential fire." — Trump to Rush Limbaugh on climate change pic.twitter.com/6M6MPAqc1g

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 9, 2020

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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