If it were possible to win the Senate, Bernie Sanders probably would have just done it.
The senator from Vermont and former 2016 presidential candidate rolled up to yesterday's Senate discussion about the future (read: possible dismantling) of Obamacare with a giant printout of one of president-elect Donald Trump's tweets, in which Trump had declared that he was, "the first and only potential GOP candidate to state that there would be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid." Sanders hit his point home by reading alound several other of Trump's tweets where he also promised not to make Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid cuts.
"Well, it seems to me that Mr. Trump right now has got to do one of two things,"Sanders said on the floor. "Number one, if all that he was talking about was campaign rhetoric, then what he was obliged to do now is to tell the American people, 'I was lying. It was a campaign ruse.' But if that is not what the case is, if he was sincere, I would hope that tomorrow or maybe today he could send out a tweet and tell his Republican colleagues to stop wasting their time and all of our time."
At a time when Republicans are making dismantling the Affordable Care Act their first priority in the new year, Sanders used the poster to remind Trump that allowing his party to completely gut President Obama's signature legislature would completely go back the promises he made in order to get elected. It was basically the hilarious, savage AF political equivalent of a mic drop.
Of course, it didn't take long for the incident to turn into a meme, because, the internet.
bernie continues to speak truth to power pic.twitter.com/dpLQx8nBzr
— David Mack (@davidmackau) January 4, 2017
*extremely bernie voice*
you know in mexico they call her big ariana pic.twitter.com/xEEkso7xDg
— BRANDON WARDELL BOT (@wardell_bot) January 4, 2017
— same jeff diff year (@thecultureofme) January 4, 2017
Bernie Sanders, you're the hero the next four years needs.