The art of the deal perhaps? Let everyone else tell them it’s a bad program instead of him. The deep state is against him, so he praises it up while everyone else trashes it, and then says listen guys, we have to listen to the people.
Tactical error. Makes him look like a dunce, or even worse, a sell-out, for supporting a plan that is the evil twin of Obamacare.
I'm afraid it's exactly what it looks like. President Trump stuck himself to a tar baby by coming out in support of this monstrosity.