“Donald, if you’re watching, we’ll put your name on it. You get to be the American president who finally guaranteed health care for every single American.”

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senator-elect from Michigan who ran on a progressive platform with Medicare for All at its center, said Friday that he doesn’t care what the policy is called so long as it passes, even during Donald Trump’s lame duck term, which will begin in January.

Appearing on Zeteo with editor-in-chief Mehdi Hasan, El-Sayed was asked if he agreed with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who a night earlier pronounced that he wasn’t so sure that if Democratic majorities in the US House and Senate passed a Medicare for All Bill that Trump wouldn’t sign it.

“If he wants to pass Trumpcare-for-All, I’m ok with it. He seems to like to put his name on things,” said El-Sayed.

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    Do you think that he wouldn’t make ‘TrumpCare’ the legal, officially mandated name? With his portrait as the watermark on every ID card?

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      He should. Just to rub it in the face of every president, democrat and republican, who came before him and absolutely could not accomplish this vital and extremely pragmatic policy.

      “This is the clown that did what you could not.”

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      Could always rename it after he’s out. Germany had so many nazi street names. Names long gone n forgotten but streets still there right?

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        Oh, no! That could never, ever, ever happen!

        He’s a very popular man and respected by all.

        Nope, never happen. No. No. NO!!!