{"id":18722,"date":"2016-12-20T00:04:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18722"},"modified":"2016-12-20T00:05:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:05:12","slug":"is-this-when-trump-becomes-presidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18722","title":{"rendered":"Is this when Trump becomes ‘presidential’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s official … finally!<\/p>\n

The Electoral College voted today and put Donald J. Trump on track to become the next president of the United States.<\/p>\n

I’ll offer the perfunctory congratulations to the president-elect.<\/p>\n

Now, though, I want to make a request of him: I want him to start sounding and acting like the future head of state of the greatest nation on Earth.<\/p>\n

There’s a certain form of irony in what we’ve witnessed from the president-elect. He says certain things about the state of our great nation. He vows to “make America great again”; he has ridiculed our military, our intelligence network, our political leadership, Congress, certain members of his own political party and certainly the Democratic Party leadership.<\/p>\n

With all of that rhetoric coming forth from the president-elect, what have we seen him do at those “thank you tour” rallies? He’s exhibited much of the buffoonery he displayed throughout his campaign. A protester was hauled out one rally and Trump said from the podium, “Get\u00a0him outta here.”<\/p>\n

We’ve heard zero high-minded rhetoric from the next president as he has toured the country. Yet … he vowed to sound more “presidential” as he prepares to take office.<\/p>\n

It has happened. There’s no sign it will happen.<\/p>\n

Trump has been elected officially, though. The electors put him over the top.<\/p>\n

So, let’s start hearing something of substance from the new guy. How about talking to the entire nation, Mr. President-elect, not just to those who voted for you?<\/p>\n

He vowed to be “president for all Americans.” It’s time he started at least sounding<\/em> as if he means it.<\/p>\n\n

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It’s official … finally! The Electoral College voted today and put Donald J. Trump on track to become the next president of the United States. I’ll offer the perfunctory congratulations to the president-elect. Now, though, I want to make a request of him: I want him to start sounding and acting like the future head … Continue reading Is this when Trump becomes ‘presidential’?<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[1424,1551,6064,3688],"class_list":["post-18722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","tag-electoral-votes","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722","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=18722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18725,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions\/18725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}