Trump Admits He's Coming After Medicare, Medicaid, And Social Security

When asked if Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security were untouchable, Trump didn't say no, but instead claimed he is going to find "fraud" in the programs.

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Donald Trump ran on a promise not to touch Social Security or Medicare, but now that he is president and in desperate need of funds to pay for tax cuts for himself and his billionaire pals, the president has come up with a way to dodge his promise.

At a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Trump was asked, “The spending bill that passed last night aims to cut $2 trillion. Can you guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security will not be touched?”

Trump immediately got defensive:

Yeah, I mean, I have said it so many times. You shouldn't be asking  me that question. Okay, this will not be read my lips.

It won't be read my lips anymore. We're not going to touch it. Now we are going to look for fraud. I'm sure you're okay with that. Like people that shouldn't be on. People that are illegal aliens and others, criminals in many cases, uh, and that's with social security. We have a lot of people. You see that immediately when you see people that are 200 years old that are being sent checks with Social Security.

Some of them are actually being sent checks. So we're tracing that down and I have a feeling that Pam is going to do a very good job with that. But you have a lot of fraud.

Technically, Trump won’t cut Social Security or Medicare, but he will use the false pretense of fraud to end benefits for people. Nowhere in Trump’s answer was Medicaid mentioned, so that beloved program is a clear target.

It is important to remind people that everything Trump said about fraud in Social Security was a lie.

By accusing people of fraud, Trump is going to try to throw people off of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

To effectively fight back, we need to discuss the facts, which we will do below.