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Kellyanne Conway is a master spinner.<\/p>\n

I actually kind of admire Donald J. Trump’s winning campaign manager’s skill at political spin.<\/p>\n

Let’s consider her answer to questions about the president-elect’s decision to remain as executive producer of “Celebrity Apprentice.”<\/p>\n

Trump will do his “Apprentice” work in his “spare time,” Conway is saying. Spare time? Yep. When the president isn’t busy providing for our national defense, creating millions of jobs for Americans and fighting ISIS terrorists to the hilt, he’s going to devote some of his energy to the reality TV show he started.<\/p>\n

The president has a full day on most days anyway. In Trump’s case — if we are to take his campaign rhetoric at face value — he’ll be busy as the dickens “making America great again.” How is he ever going to have the time to work on “Celebrity Apprentice” episodes?<\/p>\n

Conway noted that President Obama spent a lot of time on the golf course during his eight years in office. Indeed, I argued on this blog that the president is never off the clock, that he’s the head of state 24\/7.<\/p>\n

So it will be with Donald Trump. He’ll be at the helm every waking moment of every day he serves as president of the United States.<\/p>\n

If a president can take time playing a round of golf to relax, I suppose another president can take time to produce a reality TV show.<\/p>\n

Of course, the TV show and the compensation the president will earn from it does present a situation that the network’s news division — NBC in this instance — will have in covering the president.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I will\u00a0stand by an earlier comment, which is that a president who doubles as a reality TV show producer — and this is just for starters — is just plain weird.<\/p>\n\n

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Kellyanne Conway is a master spinner. I actually kind of admire Donald J. Trump’s winning campaign manager’s skill at political spin. Let’s consider her answer to questions about the president-elect’s decision to remain as executive producer of “Celebrity Apprentice.” Trump will do his “Apprentice” work in his “spare time,” Conway is saying. Spare time? Yep. … Continue reading Trump to make use of his ‘spare time’<\/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":[3,13],"tags":[540,6735,1424,6528],"class_list":["post-18523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-celebrity-apprentice","tag-donald-trump","tag-kellyanne-conway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523","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=18523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18525,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18523\/revisions\/18525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}