{"id":16322,"date":"2016-08-06T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16322"},"modified":"2016-08-06T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:47:09","slug":"trump-uncomfortable-with-self-praise-oh-my-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16322","title":{"rendered":"Trump uncomfortable with &#8216;self-praise&#8217;? Oh &#8230; my &#8230; goodness!"},"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><em><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GettyImages-583518404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16324\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GettyImages-583518404-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"GettyImages-583518404\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GettyImages-583518404-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/GettyImages-583518404.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had my laugh-out-loud moment for today while reading\u00a0about the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It came from the DailyKos, a lefty website\u00a0where the editors take\u00a0pleasure in making fun of conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The site contained a quote from Dr. Ben Carson, the former Republican presidential candidate-turned Donald Trump supporter.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Carson, Trump doesn&#8217;t like to talk about all the good things he&#8217;s done for people because &#8212; hold on with both hands! &#8212; he is &#8220;uncomfortable with self-praise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/08\/04\/1556753\/-Ben-Carson-Trump-doesn-t-talk-about-his-good-deeds-because-he-is-uncomfortable-with-self-praise?detail=email&amp;link_id=9&amp;can_id=7659d8f40241dc3ea7d73595ffd7100e&amp;source=email-washed-up-soap-actor-says-his-claim-that-obama-was-a-muslim-has-led-to-a-hollywood-blacklist&amp;email_referrer=washed-up-soap-actor-says-his-claim-that-obama-was-a-muslim-has-led-to-a-hollywood-blacklist&amp;email_subject=washed-up-soap-actor-says-his-claim-that-obama-was-a-muslim-has-led-to-a-hollywood-blacklist\">http:\/\/m.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/08\/04\/1556753\/-Ben-Carson-Trump-doesn-t-talk-about-his-good-deeds-because-he-is-uncomfortable-with-self-praise?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So help me, my head is about to do a 360 spin!<\/p>\n<p>I understand Dr. Carson&#8217;s endorsement of Trump. I\u00a0believe\u00a0he is angling for\u00a0a job in a Trump Cabinet in the event hell freezes over on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the things the good doctor could have said about Trump, though, this one might be the most astonishing thing anyone &#8212; <em>ever!<\/em> &#8212; has said about the Paragon of Egomania.<\/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>I&#8217;ve had my laugh-out-loud moment for today while reading\u00a0about the presidential campaign. It came from the DailyKos, a lefty website\u00a0where the editors take\u00a0pleasure in making fun of conservatives. The site contained a quote from Dr. Ben Carson, the former Republican presidential candidate-turned Donald Trump supporter. According to Dr. Carson, Trump doesn&#8217;t like to talk about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump uncomfortable with &#8216;self-praise&#8217;? Oh &#8230; my &#8230; goodness!<\/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":[588,6247,1424],"class_list":["post-16322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-ben-carson","tag-dailykos","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322","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=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16325,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions\/16325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}