{"id":18909,"date":"2016-12-30T17:34:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18909"},"modified":"2016-12-30T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T17:34:55","slug":"what-does-don-king-bring-to-the-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18909","title":{"rendered":"What does Don King bring to the discussion?"},"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=\"\" 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>I will concede that even presidents-elect are entitled to take some time off from preparing for office.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump, though, isn&#8217;t your normal commander in chief-in-waiting. The guy knows nothing about government; damn little about policy; I truly\u00a0wonder if he has\u00a0laid eyes on the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>He ought to be spending, therefore, all his waking hours talking to serious experts about the task he is about to assume. He&#8217;s going to become president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Who, then, is he palling around with in Florida? Don King, boxing promoter, convicted criminal, a flim-flam artist extraordinaire.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot help but wonder: What in the name of all that is holy does Don King bring to the president-elect&#8217;s stable of experts?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing, man!<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s got just a few more days before he stands on the stage in front of the U.S. Capitol Building and takes a solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Get busy, Mr. President-elect, and <em>learn<\/em> about the job of governing the greatest nation the world has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, sir, we&#8217;re <em>still<\/em> the greatest nation on Earth.<\/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>I will concede that even presidents-elect are entitled to take some time off from preparing for office. Donald J. Trump, though, isn&#8217;t your normal commander in chief-in-waiting. The guy knows nothing about government; damn little about policy; I truly\u00a0wonder if he has\u00a0laid eyes on the U.S. Constitution. He ought to be spending, therefore, all his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What does Don King bring to the discussion?<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[1078,6804,1424,3688,5246],"class_list":["post-18909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-commander-in-chief","tag-don-king","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909","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=18909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18910,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions\/18910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}