Bernie Sanders has the most glorious reaction to Trump's struggles with health care

Donald Trump used his first speech to Congress to sketch out a blueprint of his plan for the American health care system – but it doesn’t look like it’s all smooth sailing for the president.

In fact, Trump said “nobody knew health care could be so complicated” – and when Senator Bernie Sanders was told this by Anderson Cooper on CNN, his response was simply priceless.

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Sanders knows better than most that health care is a complex beast.

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He said to Cooper: “Some of us who were sitting on the health and education committee, who went to meeting after meeting after meeting, who heard from dozens of people, who stayed up night after night trying to figure out this thing, yeah, we got a clue.

“When you provide health care in a nation of 320 million people, yeah, it is very, very complicated.”

So what exactly did Trump say about health care in his speech to Congress?

Undoing Barack Obama’s signature health care law is one of Trump’s previously stated priorities, alongside ensuring that those with pre-existing conditions have access to coverage, allowing people to buy insurance across state lines and offering tax credits and expanded health savings accounts to help Americans purchase coverage.He suggested he would get rid of the requirement that all Americans carry insurance coverage, saying that “mandating every American to buy government-approved health insurance was never the right solution for America”.

Making a direct appeal for bipartisanship, Trump turned to Democrats and said: “Why not join forces to finally get the job done and get it done right?”

However, the Democrats don’t seem too thrilled by this plan – Sanders included.

The Vermont senator opposes repealing Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act, and said: “No, I don’t think our job is to work with them (Republicans) to repeal the legislation — our job is to work with them to improve the legislation.”