Trump told ‘stop toilet tweets, run the country’
DONALD Trump has blocked a Stage 4 cancer patient on Twitter after she criticised him via the social media platform.
Laura Packard, a small business owner from Las Vegas, Nevada, recently tweeted at the President, telling him to “count your rubles, file your resignation, call it a day”.
Responding to a comment on her tweet, she added: “I have Stage 4 cancer, and Trump & the Republicans are trying to take away my health insurance.”
The next day, she woke to find Mr Trump had blocked her on Twitter, barring her from reading and responding to tweets from his account.
“Omg. The President of the United States just personally blocked me,” she tweeted, before telling Mr Trump to “grow the f*ck up” and “stop tweeting on the can and run our damn country”.
Ms Packard suffers from Stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The disease, while painful, is usually curable with a combination of chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy.
Since she is self-employed, Ms Packard relies on the Affordable Care Act – also known as Obamacare – to help her pay the huge medical bills those treatments entail.
But this week, Senate Republicans announced that they would once again try to repeal Obamacare.
According to some estimates, the new bill would leave 30 million more Americans without health insurance. It would also remove federal protections for people with pre-existing conditions, such as cancer.