Video of former PresidentĀ Donald Trump vowing to terminate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went viral on social media on Friday after he reversed his position on the issue last month.

Trump, the presumed 2024 GOP presidential nominee, is set to face off against PresidentĀ Joe BidenĀ later this year in a likely rematch of the 2020 election, as each candidate hasĀ won enough delegates to secure their partyā€™s presidential nomination.

Trump has repeatedly vowed to repeal the ACA, which was developed under former PresidentĀ Barack ObamaĀ and is more commonly known as ā€œObamacare,ā€ since launching his political career with a successful 2016 presidential bid. He attempted to kill the program shortly after taking office, but was blocked byĀ RepublicansĀ who resisted the move in theĀ Senate.

However, in a late March Truth Social post, Trump seemingly reversed his position by endorsing the ACA, while promising to keep the program in place, but make it ā€œmuch, much, much betterā€ during a potential second term.

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    7 months ago

    Why is it a problem that a politician changes their mind on some topic after getting more information about it?

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        7 months ago

        Precisely. Thereā€™s a big difference between learning something new and improving, and bad faith.

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      7 months ago

      In general, itā€™s usually a good thing and indicates theyā€™re responding to new information rather than digging in with entrenched beliefs based on outdated information.

      However, with this guy, he just says whatever he thinks will make the ratings go up. He also lies and bullshits with impunity, and thatā€™s when he knows what heā€™s saying at all.

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        I donā€™t know why itā€™s just occurring to me now but heā€™s the crypto currency of presidential candidates. Say or do anything, so long as line goes up.

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      Thanks to George W. Bush, the idea that a politician could change their mind based on new information got popularized as being a ā€œflip flopperā€, and discourse was shut off thanks to the juvenile repetition of the term, along with ā€œstay the courseā€ and ā€œyou wouldnā€™t change horses mid-streamā€ phrases that W was noted for.

      So changing your mind as a politician is always a difficult thing because opponents will attack you for it, and of course itā€™s bad in the US thanks to the grade-school level of discourse in congress choosing things like ā€œflip flopperā€, ā€œsnowflakeā€, or claiming earthquakes and floods are punishment from god.