{"id":18539,"date":"2016-12-11T18:56:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T18:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18539"},"modified":"2016-12-11T18:56:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T18:56:01","slug":"presidency-full-of-smart-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18539","title":{"rendered":"Presidency full of &#8216;smart&#8217; people"},"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\/Donald_Trump_lies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18313\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Donald_Trump_lies-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"donald_trump_lies\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Donald_Trump_lies-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Donald_Trump_lies-768x483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Donald_Trump_lies.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump said he doesn&#8217;t need daily intelligence\/military briefings because, &#8220;Like, I&#8217;m a smart person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Uh, Mr. President-elect, the office has been held by a lot of &#8220;smart&#8221; occupants, all of whom have accepted the National Security Council&#8217;s daily briefings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-intelligence-briefings-smart-person-82553641164c#.yz1bqyygn\">https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-intelligence-briefings-smart-person-82553641164c#.yz1bqyygn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump told Fox News&#8217;s Chris Wallace that &#8220;my generals&#8221; get daily briefings, that the vice president-elect, Mike Pence, gets them, too.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s part of what he told Wallace: Trump said he gets briefings \u201cwhen I need it\u201d because \u201cI don\u2019t have to be told\u200a\u2014\u200ayou know, I\u2019m, like, a smart person. I don\u2019t have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years. Could be eight years\u200a\u2014\u200abut eight years. I don\u2019t need that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s going to concentrate fully on making America &#8220;great again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8230; brother.<\/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 said he doesn&#8217;t need daily intelligence\/military briefings because, &#8220;Like, I&#8217;m a smart person.&#8221; Uh, Mr. President-elect, the office has been held by a lot of &#8220;smart&#8221; occupants, all of whom have accepted the National Security Council&#8217;s daily briefings. https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/trump-intelligence-briefings-smart-person-82553641164c#.yz1bqyygn Trump told Fox News&#8217;s Chris Wallace that &#8220;my generals&#8221; get daily briefings, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Presidency full of &#8216;smart&#8217; people<\/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":[13,1],"tags":[973,1424,1788],"class_list":["post-18539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-chris-wallace","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539","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=18539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18541,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539\/revisions\/18541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}