{"id":19432,"date":"2017-01-24T04:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T04:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19432"},"modified":"2017-01-24T04:37:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T04:37:02","slug":"chaos-continues-as-trump-takes-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19432","title":{"rendered":"Chaos continues as Trump takes charge"},"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\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-signs-first-executive-orders_1_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19433\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-signs-first-executive-orders_1_1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-signs-first-executive-orders_1_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-signs-first-executive-orders_1_1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/President-Trump-signs-first-executive-orders_1_1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My goodness. The chaos, the pandemonium, the confusion.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just what Donald J. Trump has ordered &#8230; <em>allegedly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That was some wild weekend as Trump became president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0The president\u00a0delivered 16-minute inaugural speech that re-stated the winning themes of his presidential campaign and painted a dark picture of gloom and &#8220;carnage&#8221; in the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>* The next day, White House press secretary Sean Spicer meets the press corps for the first time and delivers a five-minute scolding of what he said was a deliberate misreporting of the size of the crowd at the inauguration. Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>* Meanwhile, White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said Spicer was delivering a set of &#8220;alternative facts,&#8221; prompting &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; moderator Chuck Todd to remind her that &#8220;alternative facts are falsehoods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Then &#8230; the president goes to the CIA ostensibly to pay tribute to the agents who&#8217;ve fallen in the line of duty then excoriates the media as a &#8220;dishonest&#8221; group of people.<\/p>\n<p>* As all this was occurring, several million people around the world hit the streets to march <em>in protest<\/em> of Trump&#8217;s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>* Finally, Trump told congressional leaders he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because as many as 5 million illegal immigrants cast ballots against him.<\/p>\n<p>Is this what we&#8217;re going to get for the next four years? Is this what our allies abroad are going to witness as the 45th president&#8217;s administration tries to gain its footing?<\/p>\n<p>He told us he would campaign unconventionally. It now appears that unconventional <em>governance<\/em> is going to follow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to catch my breath.<\/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>My goodness. The chaos, the pandemonium, the confusion. It&#8217;s just what Donald J. Trump has ordered &#8230; allegedly. That was some wild weekend as Trump became president of the United States. *\u00a0The president\u00a0delivered 16-minute inaugural speech that re-stated the winning themes of his presidential campaign and painted a dark picture of gloom and &#8220;carnage&#8221; in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chaos continues as Trump takes charge<\/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],"tags":[989,1424,2139,2991,6862],"class_list":["post-19432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cia","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-meet-the-press","tag-trump-inauguration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432","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=19432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19434,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432\/revisions\/19434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}