{"id":18476,"date":"2016-12-09T17:19:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18476"},"modified":"2016-12-09T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:19:44","slug":"potus-will-moonlight-as-executive-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18476","title":{"rendered":"POTUS will moonlight as executive producer"},"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\/12\/hpappb0xchxr2ykjuhxd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18477\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hpappb0xchxr2ykjuhxd-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks with members of the press, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, aboard his campaign plane, while flying over Ohio. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hpappb0xchxr2ykjuhxd-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hpappb0xchxr2ykjuhxd.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has to be almost poetic in nature, if you think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump won election to the first public office he ever sought. It&#8217;s a big one, for sure: president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>He knows next to zero about governance, so he&#8217;ll be learning much of it while working on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s this: The new president is going to remain attached to the reality TV show that gave him notoriety, &#8220;The Apprentice.&#8221; He&#8217;ll be an executive producer of the show that will be hosted by former body builder\/California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who will inherit the role\u00a0Trump once played, getting the chance to say <em>&#8220;You&#8217;re fired!&#8221;<\/em> to would-be business executives.<\/p>\n<p>This is just plain weird, man. Strange in the extreme. Goofy to the max.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/maybe-the-answer-is-that-he-can-t-divest\">http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/maybe-the-answer-is-that-he-can-t-divest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States usually has a pretty full plate. He&#8217;s got to do things like, oh, protect us against our enemies, rev up the economy, ensure domestic tranquility and be the spokesman for the greatest nation on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>How is this guy going to have time to devote to being executive producer of a TV show?<\/p>\n<p>I guess the poetic element comes in as we realize that the president will be more or less serving as an &#8220;apprentice&#8221; in his own right while working his <em>day job<\/em> as head of state and head of government.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, his role as executive producer of &#8220;The Apprentice&#8221;\u00a0would appear to be\u00a0a perfect fit.<\/p>\n<p>Good &#8230; grief!<\/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>This has to be almost poetic in nature, if you think about it. Donald J. Trump won election to the first public office he ever sought. It&#8217;s a big one, for sure: president of the United States of America. He knows next to zero about governance, so he&#8217;ll be learning much of it while working &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS will moonlight as executive producer<\/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":[3,10,13,14],"tags":[6729,1424,3688,6730],"class_list":["post-18476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus","tag-the-apprentice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18476","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=18476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18478,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18476\/revisions\/18478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}