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Jamie Raskins's Preamble to the Big Ugly Bill and Trump didn't like it [1]
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Date: 2025-07-03
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland took the Big Ugly Bill to task Wednesday night. He was angry about the bill, so he "found" a preamble to it that he read aloud on the House floor. It went like this:
Clip on Bryan Tyler Cohen's Instagram of Raskin's Preamble
Forbes clip of Jaime and his Preamble on YouTube
"Mr. Speaker, I found a Preamble to this Big Ugly Bill. We the billionaires, and our King, in order to deform and sicken our Union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our peoples defenses, undermine our general welfare, and reserve to ourselves and our posterity staggering debt servitude for eternity, do herby instruct the Republicans in Congress to strip 17 million people of their healthcare, increase copays, premiums and deductibles for everyone else, cut 42 million people off of nutritional assistance, increase the national debt by 4 trillion dollars, trash renewable energy systems, increase our electric bills for the carbon kings, all to weaken and destroy the Constitution of the people of these United States of America. Please include this Preamble in the legislative record. I yield back."
Beautiful, unlike the Ugly bill. Trump was watching the C-Span live feed like I was. He took to Truth Social to prove Mark Twain's words: "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt."
So, Trump decided to remove all doubt.
"Rep. Jamie Raskin, a third rate Democrat politician..."
See, first line. It's a "Democratic politician."
"... has no idea what is in our fantastic Tax Cut Bill, nor would he understand it if he did."
Jaime knows what is in the bill, unlike Trump, who hasn't read it. Because Donald can't read more than a paragraph at a time, and pause to misunderstand it.
"This DOPE has been consistently losing to me for YEARS..."
Trump remembers Raskin on the January 6th Committee, and with his pardon by Biden, is beyond his reach forever.
"... and I love watching his ugly face as he is forced to consistently concede DEFEAT TO TRUMP..."
Trump loves watching ugly faces. I guess we should have known with all the time he has to spend in front of the mirror each morning turning orange. Truly showing his consistent cognitive decline with his third person rage all in caps.
"And tonight should be another of those nights. Raskin is a bad politician, and a TOTAL LOSER!"
Mark Twain strikes again. Total loser Trump should have Raskin's preamble played in a loop until he understands what the bill, in any form, is going to do. It makes Trump a liar on every promise he made that it would provide. Either he is lying, or the people around him are lying, or both. Ultimately, it could be Trump is too stupid to understand.
Jaime Raskin should take a victory lap for his creativity. He would have made a much better president than Trump, because he has read and understands the Constitution. Trump can do neither.
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