{"id":19465,"date":"2017-01-27T15:13:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19465"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:14:27","slug":"you-mean-we-have-four-whole-years-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19465","title":{"rendered":"You mean we have four whole years of this?"},"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\/Trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19466\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump is making me crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am about to go nuts watching the evening news as it regards the 45th president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been in office for seven whole days and it seems like he&#8217;s been there &#8230; um, forever!<\/p>\n<p>He signs an executive order starting to repeal the Affordable Care Act; he accuses millions of illegal immigrants of voting for Hillary Clinton, then announces a &#8220;major investigation&#8221; into the matter; he starts a trade war with Mexico over that country&#8217;s refusal to pay for the &#8220;beautiful wall&#8221; he wants to build; he continues to cozy up to Vladimir Putin; then several key State Department staffers quit, leaving him with some senior advisers in that key Cabinet agency.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s at war with the media. Chaos reins.<\/p>\n<p>Good grief, folks! I cannot stand this.<\/p>\n<p>Honest to goodness, I can&#8217;t quite put my finger on which development startles me the most.<\/p>\n<p>No Drama Obama sought to run the country in a more even-handed manner. Did it work? Well, yes. It did. The nation is better off than it was when Barack Obama took office. He turned it all over to &#8220;Smart Person&#8221; Trump.<\/p>\n<p>My eternal optimism is being tested like hardly ever before. Why? Because the president of the United States &#8212; who took office without a single solitary moment of public service experience &#8212; is seeking to chart a new course through some unknown territory.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to wish my life away, but &#8230; <em>is it 2020 yet?<\/em><\/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 John Trump is making me crazy. Yes, I am about to go nuts watching the evening news as it regards the 45th president of the United States. He&#8217;s been in office for seven whole days and it seems like he&#8217;s been there &#8230; um, forever! He signs an executive order starting to repeal the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You mean we have four whole years of this?<\/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":[540,5350,1424,2245,3011],"class_list":["post-19465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-build-a-wall","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19465","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=19465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19468,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19465\/revisions\/19468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}