{"id":12543,"date":"2016-01-24T01:58:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2016-01-24T01:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:58:52","slug":"now-trump-is-insulting-his-own-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12543","title":{"rendered":"Now Trump is insulting his own supporters"},"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\/2016\/01\/Donald-Trump_3372655b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12545\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12545\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Donald-Trump_3372655b-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Donald-Trump_3372655b\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Donald-Trump_3372655b-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Donald-Trump_3372655b.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s insult machine has pelted victims far and wide.<\/p>\n<p>Now he has taken aim at the very people who support him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the following &#8212; at a Christian school in Iowa, no less: It was that he could &#8220;shoot someone&#8221; while standing the middle of Fifth Avenue (I presume the one in New York City) and not lose the support of his followers.<\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to digest that.<\/p>\n<p>Those who support him, Trump said in effect, are so blindly loyal that their candidate could commit a felony and they&#8217;d <em>still<\/em> vote for him for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/trump-i-could-shoot-somebody-and-wouldnt-lose-any-voters\/\">Am I missing something?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of my social media friends and acquaintances appear to be avid Trumpsters. They chide me for making anti-Trump statements on my blog or on Twitter. I don&#8217;t mind being needled for my opposition to his presidential candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fair to ask, though: Are they really that blindly loyal to someone who would presume such a thing about them?<\/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 J. Trump&#8217;s insult machine has pelted victims far and wide. Now he has taken aim at the very people who support him. Trump said the following &#8212; at a Christian school in Iowa, no less: It was that he could &#8220;shoot someone&#8221; while standing the middle of Fifth Avenue (I presume the one in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now Trump is insulting his own supporters<\/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":[1424,3277,5891],"class_list":["post-12543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york-city","tag-political-loyalty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543","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=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12546,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions\/12546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}