This thing will not pass the house and I think the president knows it and wants it to fail. Sure, he’ll get an earful from us, but the person who will get hammered the most will be Ryan, and I think that’s what the president is hoping for. A defeat of this bill is egg in the faces of Ryan and the GOP leadership.
As long as they don’t send him anything to sign his hands are clean. He’s out there going this is a “great” bill, a “terrific” bill. If they don’t pass it, he can say they couldn’t even get that done. But, I don’t know what Mr. Trump is doing, but I know he games stuff like this out well in advance. He knows all of his options in any contingency and he never asks a question he doesn’t already know the answer to. He’ll be fine.