“Donald, if you’re watching, we’ll put your name on it. You get to be the American president who finally guaranteed health care for every single American.”

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senator-elect from Michigan who ran on a progressive platform with Medicare for All at its center, said Friday that he doesn’t care what the policy is called so long as it passes, even during Donald Trump’s lame duck term, which will begin in January.

Appearing on Zeteo with editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan, El-Sayed was asked if he agreed with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who a night earlier pronounced that he wasn’t so sure that if Democratic majorities in the US House and Senate passed a Medicare for All Bill that Trump wouldn’t sign it.

“If he wants to pass Trumpcare-for-All, I’m ok with it. He seems to like to put his name on things,” said El-Sayed.

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[–] 3 points 15 hours ago

I’ve said this about Cuba. Trump is so desperate to make “deals” with other countries where they (pretend) to invest in the US and buy American products. Cuba is right there and they would genuinely love to be able to trade products like sugar for American-made goods (not because they are American, but just because the blockade locks them out of buying necessary things like capital equipment for power plants). If Trump removed the blockade on Cuba (as much as the president can unilaterally) I don’t doubt Diaz-Canel would get up there and praise Trump and call him an incredible deal-making president and actually commit to buy US goods; and if he had to throw in a sweetened deal for a hotel in Havana, sure whatever. So I think it’s telling that there was news a while back that Rubio was personally blocking the Cuban delegation from being able to talk directly to Trump, I think he knew if that happened then the Cubans and Trump would have a lot of common ground to work from.

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