Nation & World News

Bernie Sanders brings 'yuge' Trump tweet to Senate floor

By Alex Thomas
Jan 5, 2017

When Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., took the Senate floor Wednesday morning, he shared the spotlight with an unusual prop – a large poster of one of one of President-elect Donald Trump's tweets.

>> Check it out here

Sanders came armed with a giant printout of the May 2015 tweet, in which the president-elect wrote, “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”

>> See Trump's original tweet here

Sanders implored Trump to “veto any proposal that cuts Medicare, that cuts Medicaid or that cuts Social Security.”

>> Read more trending stories

Sanders' communications director tweeted about the incident, saying Trump's former rival for the GOP presidential nomination, Sen. Ted Cruz, chuckled when he first saw the poster.

>> See the tweet here

About the Author

Alex Thomas

More Stories