President Donald Trump and reporters aboard Air Force One shared a lighter moment on Tuesday when he was accidentally hit by the bathroom door as someone tried to exit. A video posted online captured the incident, which left Trump smiling and reporters chuckling.
“We’re gonna be looking at a couple of different people, but I have a pretty good idea who I want. You’re gonna have to take it easy with that thing. It’s a government plane, but I like to take care of it,” Trump says at one point, speaking to someone off-camera as reporters laugh.
A lavatory door gently bumps into him in the next second. “Somebody’s in there. Come on out!” a smiling president said.
Then a reporter asked a question that was not audible, but it apparently had to do with congressional healthcare reform.
“Yeah, that’s good. Well, I like the concept. I don’t want to give the insurance companies any money. They’ve been ripping off the public for years. ObamaCare is a scam to make the insurance companies rich. And they have made — I mean, look, $1400 to $1700 increase, 100% increase over the last few things. There’s really a few things that have gone up like insurance companies. They’re getting numbers and money like nobody’s ever seen before,” he said.
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Last month during the historic government shutdown, Trump proposed a new plan to “terminate” Obamacare by redirecting federal insurance subsidies directly to Americans, a move that would mark one of the most sweeping overhauls of the health care system in U.S. history.
The president unveiled the idea in a series of Truth Social posts early Saturday morning, saying the money “currently being sent to money-sucking insurance companies” should instead go to individuals so they can “purchase their own, much better, healthcare.”
“I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the hundreds of billions of dollars currently being sent to money-sucking insurance companies … BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE,” Trump wrote. “Take from the BIG, BAD insurance companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per dollar spent, the worst healthcare anywhere in the world, ObamaCare.”
He added: “Unrelated, we must still terminate the filibuster!”
The president’s comments came as his administration faced mounting pressure to end the ongoing government shutdown, which caused widespread delays for air travelers and uncertainty for millions of low-income Americans.
Trump and his allies were under fire for the government’s refusal to pay SNAP food benefits to 42 million recipients during the shutdown — a decision that was tied up in federal court at the time.
Most Democrats voted repeatedly to keep the government shut down while attempting to blame the impasse on Republicans, nearly all of whom kept voting to reopen.
A Trump social media post at the time appeared to link the shutdown fight and his health care ambitions, suggesting that a direct-payment model for health subsidies could help offset the affordability issues Democrats have used to criticize him.
The president’s proposal echoes a recurring theme of his populist agenda — cutting out intermediaries and redirecting federal spending “to the people.” But critics and policy analysts quickly noted the plan’s logistical and fiscal challenges.
Trump vastly overstated the size of the government’s health insurance subsidies, claiming “hundreds of billions” are sent to insurers each year. In reality, the figure is closer to $138 billion for 2025, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates.
It’s also unclear how Americans would purchase health care coverage without going through insurance companies, which currently administer the plans under the Affordable Care Act.
The proposal drew mixed reactions, even among conservatives. Some praised the idea of empowering individuals, while others warned that dismantling the ACA without a replacement could destabilize the insurance market and raise costs for millions.
