{"id":10303,"date":"2015-07-26T02:32:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T02:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2015-07-26T02:32:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T02:32:44","slug":"thicken-your-skin-donald-its-going-to-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10303","title":{"rendered":"Thicken your skin, Donald; it’s going to get worse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump enters the Republican Party presidential primary field and immediately rakes Mexican illegal\u00a0immigrants over the coals and then says Sen. John McCain isn’t a real war hero because, as Trump said, he likes “people who weren’t captured” by the enemy in wartime.<\/p>\n

Then the Des Moines Register, Iowa’ leading newspaper, publishes a scathing editorial urging Trump to withdraw from the campaign. He called Trump an embarrassment to the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

And then Trump bans the Register from covering a campaign event in Iowa.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/07\/trump-bans-des-moines-register-from-iowa-campaign-event-120615.html<\/p>\n

And why? Because the Register was offering an opinion on the state of play in the GOP and Trump’s role in this campaign. That’s part of the paper’s mission, its franchise, its duty to those who read the publication.<\/p>\n

Trump, though, just didn’t like the editorial. So, he decided to kick the paper out of his campaign event.<\/p>\n

Wow! This is getting really, really fun to watch.<\/p>\n

Trump’s got to get some thicker skin. Hey, he says he’s the master of the universe — or words more or less to that effect. Does the Man Who Can Fix Any Problem on Earth really have to react so badly because a newspaper is performing its duty?<\/p>\n

I would think one with the clout that Trump proclaims wouldn’t have to worry about what a measly little media outlet would have to say about him.<\/p>\n

This campaign is shaping up already as an amazing sideshow of insults, gotchas, payback and political stunt work.<\/p>\n

Good grief! Those Iowa caucuses are still months away.<\/p>\n

Donald, you need to toughen up. It’s only going to get worse.<\/p>\n\n

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Let’s see if I have this right. Donald Trump enters the Republican Party presidential primary field and immediately rakes Mexican illegal\u00a0immigrants over the coals and then says Sen. John McCain isn’t a real war hero because, as Trump said, he likes “people who weren’t captured” by the enemy in wartime. Then the Des Moines Register, … Continue reading Thicken your skin, Donald; it’s going to get worse<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[1365,1424,2240,2244,2546,3010,3690,3909,5116],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-des-moines-register","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-john-mccain","tag-mexican-immigrants","tag-pow","tag-republican-party-campaign","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}