Trump Hits Back at WSJ for Ridiculing His Failure to Understand the Success of Obamacare: ‘The Globalist “Paper” Sucks’

The kayfabe-ification of political media continues to trend up, which, just like pro wrestling, might be fun to watch but probably also makes everyone paying attention a lot dumber.

For reasons that are still unclear, Trump re-upped his old “Obamacare Sucks!” campaign chestnut from 2015 on Wednesday. He took to Truth Social and wrote:

Getting much better Healthcare than Obamacare for the American people will be a priority of the Trump Administration. It is not a matter of cost, it is a matter of HEALTH. America will have one of the best Healthcare Plans anywhere in the world. Right now it has one of the WORST!

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I don’t want to terminate Obamacare, I want to REPLACE IT with MUCH BETTER HEALTHCARE. Obamacare Sucks!!!

It was a confused message that seemed to largely amplify his lack of understanding of the Affordable Care Act and his failed — and largely unpopular — attempt to repeal it.

Enter the conservative Wall Street Journal Editorial Board into the ring, who published a column Thursday morning that effectively blamed Trump’s lack of understanding and inability to marshal public opinion for “Obamacare” while admitting there are good things about it, and bad.

This did not sit well with Trump, who went back to Truth Social and spewed the sort of bile that I gather his base loves to read. He wrote:

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page is really a MESS! The Globalist “paper” sucks, its influence is badly waning, and the concept of, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, is not exactly music to their ears. They fought me hard in 2016, but when I WON, Rupert Murdoch was the first to call. “Great going,” he said, “lets have lunch.” He called often, never getting what he wanted to get, or hearing what he wanted to hear. How did that work out, Rupert? Now he’s given up on a hopeless Ron DeSanctimonious, who became Florida’s Governor because of me, only to be pushing Nikki “Birdbrain” Haley, an even more disloyal candidate than Ron. Just like 2016 (In 2020 I got millions of more votes than I did in 2016, but the ELECTION WAS RIGGED!), 2024 will be a GLOBALIST DEFEAT, and a rebuke to the losers at the WSJ, who have gotten almost nothing right for years. Remember, I am leading Haley & DeSanctus by 50 Points, & Crooked Joe by a lot, & the Radical Left Democrats want no part of MAGA, or TRUMP!

As Trump missives go, this is a bit of a word salad. Seems like he used the WSJ editorial as a pretext to just spray venom on many of his political enemies because clearly he sees himself as a victim, and his nonstop grievance appears to be a feature, and not a bug, to the millions of Americans who support him.

There are millions of Americans who also likely enjoy pro wrestling because they want to believe its real, and here we are.