This column provides a daily update on key presidential actions as well as comments, whether spoken aloud or on Twitter, by President Trump. Like the stock market, the deadline for Trump Today action is 4 p.m. Eastern time, even as we acknowledge that substantive news can and does occur after hours.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday predicted Republicans will get their Obamacare redo “over the line,” threw another barb at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and agreed to jet to Paris for Bastille Day.

TRUMP STILL SEES REPUBLICAN HEALTHCARE WIN

Trump said he thinks Senate Republicans are on the verge of getting enough votes to pass the party’s overhaul of Obamacare.

“I think we’re going to get at least very close, and I think we’re going to get it over the line,” he said at a White House meeting with some leaders of Native American tribes.

Republicans hold just a 52-48 edge in the Senate and they are a handful of votes short to pass their controversial plan to make over the U.S. health-care system.

A sharp divide between the moderate and conservative wings of the party threatens an embarrassing defeat for Trump early in his presidency. Trump is likely to accept whatever Republicans come up with — assuming they achieve unity at all.

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TRUMP HITS OUT AT THE NEW YORK TIMES...

The president appeared irritated by a New York Times article that quoted an unnamed Republican senator as suggesting Trump lacked basic awareness of some elemental parts of the party’s health-care bill.

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...AND THE OWNER OF THE WASHINGTON POST

The president is also none to pleased with the Washington Post, the storied paper now owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Trump pretty much dislikes everything the paper writes and he’s not shy about letting Bezos know it.

A harmless barb? An economic threat? But the comment doesn’t reflect that Amazon now collects sales taxes in any state that has one.

Incidentally, Bezos sat one chair over from Trump last week during a big gathering of high-tech leaders at the White House. The two seemed to get along fine.

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TRIBES SHOULD FEEL THE ENERGY, TRUMP SAYS

In his meeting with tribal leaders, Trump promised to relax federal restrictions that prevent Native Americans from reaping the benefits of energy sources under reservation lands: coal, natural gas, shale oil and the like.

“For too long the federal government has put up restrictions and regulations that put this energy wealth out of reach,” the president said. “We’re going to put it back in your hands.”

Some of these deposits could be worth big bucks, though Native Americans have been divided over whether to tap these energy sources. In some case they worry about pollution or despoiling the land.

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BASTILLE DAY RENDEZ-VOUS

Trump agreed to visit France on Bastille Day upon an invitation from new French President Emmanuel Macron. The holiday takes place July 14.

The holiday commemorates the storming of a fortress prison, then under the control of an absolute monarchy, by the people of Paris who feared further repression.

Trump fans and critics alike can draw their own analogies in an event rich with symbolism.



