{"id":10528,"date":"2015-08-12T01:32:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T01:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10528"},"modified":"2015-08-12T03:11:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T03:11:12","slug":"trump-keeps-drawing-me-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10528","title":{"rendered":"Trump keeps drawing me back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/trump-hair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10529\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/trump-hair-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"trump-hair\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/trump-hair-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/trump-hair.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump keeps reminding me that promises to <em>consider<\/em> ignoring him are hard to keep.<\/p>\n<p>I said something earlier about whether I should consider imposing a moratorium on commenting on Trump&#8217;s blathering. Then I turn on the TV news talk shows I like watching and what do I see? Commentators, analysts, &#8220;strategists&#8221; from both parties and other so-called experts talking about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>How can I remain silent? How can I ignore the things that have captured all these political junkies&#8217; attention?<\/p>\n<p>I cannot do it.<\/p>\n<p>Trump called a press conference today, his first meeting with the media since the Fox News-sponsored joint appearance this past week.<\/p>\n<p>Did he offer anything of substance? No.<\/p>\n<p>Did Trump give a specific example of how he plans to create more jobs than any politician in history? No.<\/p>\n<p>Did he offer any regret for the over-the-top statements he&#8217;s made about, oh, women? No.<\/p>\n<p>He did, however, manage to poke fun at the U.S. ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy. Interesting, yes? As Joan Walsh of Salon magazine noted in a tweet, he could have cited the political process associated with ambassadorships in general, but he chose to single out the late President Kennedy&#8217;s <em>daughter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But he said he adores women.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the polls are giving political cover and allowing him to keep shooting off his mouth in this careless manner.<\/p>\n<p>Yes they are, Donald.<\/p>\n<p>For now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump keeps reminding me that promises to consider ignoring him are hard to keep. I said something earlier about whether I should consider imposing a moratorium on commenting on Trump&#8217;s blathering. Then I turn on the TV news talk shows I like watching and what do I see? Commentators, analysts, &#8220;strategists&#8221; from both parties &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump keeps drawing me back<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[874,1424,1790,1948,2460,5338],"class_list":["post-10528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-caroline-kennedy","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-gop-debate","tag-jfk","tag-u-s-ambassadors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528","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=10528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10531,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528\/revisions\/10531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}