Trump Forgets Most Important Part Of Executive Order

"President Donald Trump signed his big health care executive order today, aimed at dismantling the Affordable Care Act.

The order comes as a GOP controlled Congress has failed repeatedly to pass legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, much to the consternation of the president.

Sen. Rand Paul and Vice President Mike Pence both spoke at the signing. However, after Trump finished his remarks, he apparently forgot that he actually had to sign the order at his executive order signing, and made for the door.

Fortunately, Pence grabbed Trump before he exited the room and reminded him that you can’t hold an executive order signing and not sign an executive order."*

Hosts: Cenk Uygur

Cast: Cenk Uygur

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[hks]

This is the second time he’s started to walk out & had to be reminded to sign the order he was so dang proud of😳

[craze]

Did Pence put the crayon in Trump's hand as well?

[Cboz]

Basically proof of Corker's comments of it being an adult day-care at the White House.

[FingerThatO]

Trumps dad would sometimes "accidentally" lose donny at the park.

[spiffyh]

And how pathetic are all those people standing behind him so they can be in his photo op? Politicians are so disgusting.

[Stripdancer]

We laugh at the fact that Trump nearly forgot to sign the order, but he DID sign that, and I suppose it's not something to laugh at...

[rockitman]

"I'm only signing it because it costs nothing."... Sounds like something the freeloading mooch would say.

[ellec]

This would be hysterical if he was some other country's president.

[jessetorres]

Quick history lesson: We broke away from Great Britain at the end of the 1700s because we didn't like being ruled by a single person who made laws and passed taxes without our consent. Once we formed our own government, we decided to have a system of checks and balances within our government so no 1 person/group of individuals would have total say over what the people can or can't do. Asides from Executive Orders, the only real legislative accomplishment/progress Donald Trump has made as President (that hasn't been an Executive Order) is putting Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, and even then that should have gone in the President Obama column of accomplishments. Also, the rules were changes to 51 votes rather than 60 votes because Mitch McConnell and the Republicans knew they wouldn't have gotten Gorsuch on the Court without it.

This is why I have never been a big fan of when Presidents (Democrat or Republican) pass Executive Orders to get things done. Now, I do know that when the Legislative Branch refuses to compromise, the Executive Branch passes them to get things done when the government is in gridlock and Executive Orders can be overturn by the Legislative Branch. But still, while both Parties claim they hate it when the President uses Executive Orders (usually the Republicans complain more than Democrats), they tend to bite their tongues when they are the Party in power. And I'm not saying Executive Orders are all bad, but when in 8 months President Trump has done almost nothing through the Legislative and Judicial Branches (aside from adding a Justice to the Court that belonged to President Obama) and just issued dozens of Executive Orders (which again the Republicans complained about with Obama but don't complain about now) there is a feeling of hypocrisy within our Democracy.

Finally, in terms of the Filibuster/60 Senator vote to get things done, I think we do need at least some compromise between the Parties on most legislative decisions made by our government, but because of the actions of Mitch McConnell and other Republicans under President Obama, this sense of bipartisanship in our government could be forever lost should we reduce decisions to just be a simple majority. For example, if the Democrats retake the Senate in 2018 (which is difficult but possible), and another Supreme Court Justice seat opens, all the 51-54 Democratic Senators have to do is say "we demand a Liberal or Moderate Justice nominee from Trump otherwise we will all say no" or if Trump nominates a Justice with less than a year left like Obama did they could say "the Republicans under McConnell said no to Merrick Garland when Obama had a year left so we will do the same with Trump's nominee." With a lack of bipartisanship/compromise and the Republicans in the minority, there will be nothing they can do given how they changed the rules to a simple majority to benefit them when they were in power, but it hurts them when they aren't in power.

[lwesso]

He wanted to get back to playing golf... Give the guy a break

[TyranntX]

That image they used for this video is hilarious. Trump looks like he's sea sick

[colico]

"Doesn't cost potentially millions of people their lives. SMH.

[heavyarms]

Trump isn't even worthy of ENTERING the Roosevelt room.

[celesterob]

As American that is embarrasing...The entire world is laughing at trump and us for letting this continue..America the Greatest Country in the with trump Iam beginning to doubt that?!?!?! Look at how trump is treating the poor victims of Puerto Rico....

[jackguest]

Hopefully he forgets he's even President and leaves

[Dizzyruptor]

fucks sake America put an end to this goddamn nightmare for us all

[BlankBrain]

They shouldn't have told him. Then a month or two later when he asks why healthcare is still limping along - "Oh yeah, you didn't sign it."

[L.Lagrange]

I'm sure Pence was standing there thinking of himself signing those orders. Seeing Trump forget to sign them must have set him off

[derrickholmes]

He did that before and told Pence to bring it to him.

[mantruck]

Omg.. I read the title and jokingly said, "what, did he forget to sign it or something." And the moron actually did forget to sign it. Ughhhhmmeegguuurrrdddd.