{"id":18745,"date":"2016-12-21T00:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T00:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18745"},"modified":"2016-12-21T00:32:51","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T00:32:51","slug":"now-hes-a-great-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18745","title":{"rendered":"Now he&#8217;s a &#8216;great guy&#8217;"},"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\/BBxo0nC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18746\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BBxo0nC-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"bbxo0nc\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BBxo0nC-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/BBxo0nC.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carlos Slim is a &#8220;great guy,&#8221; says Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, wait! We all thought he was a tool of the Democratic Party. Isn&#8217;t that what the president-elect said of the Mexican gazillionaire? Didn&#8217;t he disparage Slim because of made-up suspicions about the U.S. presidential election being &#8220;rigged&#8221; against Trump?<\/p>\n<p>Not so. Apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Slim had dinner the other night at Trump&#8217;s Florida resort. They had a good time. Trump and Slim now are BFFs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-now-says-carlos-slim-a-frequent-campaign-target-is-a-great-guy\/ar-BBxnNkm?li=BBnb7Kz\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-now-says-carlos-slim-a-frequent-campaign-target-is-a-great-guy\/ar-BBxnNkm?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So help me, my head is spinning. I cannot even begin to keep up with the way Trump turns enemies into friends. How he manages to take back all those angry and reprehensible things he says about others.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Slim had been critical of Trump&#8217;s policies toward Mexico, such as his plan to build that wall across the nations&#8217; border. Now he says Trump&#8217;s presidency will mean success for Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Politics has this way of making people switch positions on a dime. Which view are we supposed to believe?<\/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>Carlos Slim is a &#8220;great guy,&#8221; says Donald J. Trump. Hey, wait! We all thought he was a tool of the Democratic Party. Isn&#8217;t that what the president-elect said of the Mexican gazillionaire? Didn&#8217;t he disparage Slim because of made-up suspicions about the U.S. presidential election being &#8220;rigged&#8221; against Trump? Not so. Apparently. Trump and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now he&#8217;s a &#8216;great guy&#8217;<\/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":[5],"tags":[5350,869,1424],"class_list":["post-18745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-build-a-wall","tag-carlos-slim","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745","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=18745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18747,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745\/revisions\/18747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}