President Donald Trump's administration has abruptly halted ads and outreach for Obamacare set to run during the final days of the 2017 open enrollment season, according to a report published Thursday by Politico.Just six days before the window to sign up ends, vindictive Trump and/or his advisers put road blocks in the way of people who need health insurance.
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The decision to halt outreach and ads came from the White House, according to the report. (My emphasis)
For Trump and crew, this is just one more petty exercise of power to take vengeance on whom? Obama? Democrats? People who didn't vote for him? Protesters? Anyone who prevents him from enjoying himself in his first days in the White House? Sadly, it could mean the difference between life and death to people who need help, including Trump supporters.
Another example of Trump's pettiness and vindictiveness is the order to the National Park Service to post photos of his inauguration that he liked, photos that didn't show areas on the Mall where there were no people.
In a Saturday phone call, Trump personally ordered Reynolds to produce additional photographs of the previous day’s crowds on the Mall, according to three individuals who have knowledge of the conversation. The president believed that the photos might prove that the media had lied in reporting that attendance had been no better than average.Trump was especially angered by pictures that showed the crowd at President Obama's inauguration in 2009 side by side with his inauguration crowd.
There are more, so many more, examples of the president's child-like, bullying behavior than I have time to note, but he's had a busy week and done much harm and no good for the people of the country.
Trump's soured the relationship between the US and Mexico, our friend, neighbor, and third largest trading partner.
He's endangered our troops deployed in the Middle East by stating he believes torture works.
He's endangered our troops in Iraq who are deployed to advise the Iraqi military by threatening to take the oil from their country.
He's stated he will open a major investigation into massive voter fraud in the recent election, for which there is no evidence. Trump believes three to five million "illegals", as he calls them, may have voted in the election and caused him to lose the popular vote.
He's put gag orders on federal agencies, forbidding the employees from speaking to members of Congress.
And Trump's been in office for only a week. God help the United States of America!
UPDATE: The halt to outreach publicity in the final days of open enrollment in the ACA health insurance program has been reversed by the Trump maladministration.
HHS officials on Friday said automatic phone calls and other online and digital outreach — including Twitter messages and emails — would continue through the Jan. 31 deadline for obtaining coverage.
