Trump is a nasty unpleasant human being. Can we all agree on that? Good.

In addition, he seems unable or unwilling to persuade people to do what he’d like them to do; all he seems capable of doing is bullying them. Case in point:

“I talked to the president at length about that exact issue yesterday,” Mulvaney said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He continued, “What he’s saying is, look, if Obamacare is hurting people, and it is, then why shouldn’t it hurt insurance companies and, more importantly perhaps for this discussion, members of Congress?”

Currently each Congressional office can qualify as a small business for purposes of meeting the subsidy requirements of the ACA (they mostly make too much to fit the low-income standards if they tried to buy health insurance on the individual market). This is what Trump is threatening to take away from Senators and Representatives. As usual, he doesn’t know the details. If he did he might realize that the staff assistants and secretaries and constituent service people in each Congressperson’s office would be the ones seriously hurt if he made good on that threat. Of course, he doesn’t realize that both the Senate and House bills he’s been wanting would seriously hurt a lot of the people who voted for him. I’m sure he’s been told, and I’m equally sure he doesn’t much care. He wants to chalk up “wins” for himself and his Administration and the devil take the hindmost.

He is a stupid and uncaring man.