During a review of how the Republican Party will defend cuts to Medicaid in the budget bill that Donald Trump signed on the 4th of July, questions were raised about how aware the president is over what is transpiring.

Add to that, the official White House statement on the fate of Medicaid contained a glaring omission as one MSNBC host pointed out on Saturday morning.

On MSNBC’s “The Weekend” one guest, Eugene Craig, the former president of Black Republicans for Harris, suggested there was no way the TV-obsessed Trump was unaware that Medicaid would be facing drastic cuts.

That led him to conclude, “You either have one or two things happening. Donald Trump lied to us again which, one more time, water is wet, or you know, Congress, you know, literally just defied the president while at the same time trying to do everything possible to show fealty to him.”

That led “The Weekend” co-host Eugene Daniels to chime in by reading a statement from the White House.

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“I want to ask you a question,” he prompted his guest, “Abigail Jackson, a spokesperson for the White House, told NOTUS that President Trump’s reconciliation bill, this was in reference to the same report, quote, ‘Takes decisive action to protect Medicaid for generations to come by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in the program. President Trump is committed to protecting Medicaid for the vulnerable Americans who rely on it most.’”

He then observed, “But I did not read in that was that we didn’t cut Medicaid.”

As the panel laughed at the rhetorical sleight of hand, Daniels continued, “Like even even even the spokespeople are not saying what the president is saying and what some of these members of Congress are saying in front of the cameras.”

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