Who knew that health care could be so complicated? The Republican “repeal-only” plan for Obamacare has fallen through, and The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah knows who deserves the credit: Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski, all of whom said they would not vote for Mitch McConnell’s plan. “All the Senate ladies, all the Senate ladies,” sang Noah on Tuesday night’s episode. “Hold the plan up, but no, no, no.”
But there is another person who wasn’t really on board, and that’s Donald Trump, who Noah called “an unlikable Baby Groot,” pointing out how his short attention span and poor impulse control may have been the final blow to the “repeal-only” plan. Trump doesn’t seem too worried, though. While the health care plan crashed and burned, he was at the White House celebrating “Made in America” week, testing out baseball bats and sitting in fire trucks.
“So the truth is, for the Republicans, it’s not looking good,” said Noah. “It’s July. Their health care plan is officially dead, they have no infrastructure bill, and they’re months behind on tax reform. At some point they have to admit that their world is burning down. Fortunately for the Republicans, they have a fireman on their team.”
