{"id":19826,"date":"2017-02-17T03:29:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T03:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19826"},"modified":"2017-02-17T03:29:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T03:29:33","slug":"i-inherited-a-mess-no-you-didnt-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19826","title":{"rendered":"‘I inherited a mess’; no you didn’t, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump wouldn’t know a “mess” if he slipped and fell in the middle of one. Indeed, he hasn’t yet acknowledged the\u00a0mess he’s created since becoming president of the United States.<\/p>\n

The president said today at his hastily called press conference that he “inherited a mess” from President Barack H. Obama.<\/p>\n

Really, Mr. President?<\/p>\n

Let’s see: 80 consecutive months of job growth; millions of jobs created during the past eight years; an annual budget deficit that’s been cut by two-thirds; a vibrant housing industry; the Dow Jones Industrial Average has nearly tripled in eight years; commandos killed Osama bin Laden; other terrorist leaders have been killed or captured; we have avoided a major terror attack; Iran has been banned from developing a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

A mess? Are you kidding me?<\/p>\n

Barack Obama and Congress cleaned up the mess they inherited and left you with a country in far better shape than when your immediate predecessor took office.<\/p>\n

No, the country’s not in perfect condition. But it’s no “mess,” man!<\/p>\n

Paraphrasing the famous “Saturday Night Live” routine involving Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin in their\u00a0hilarious point\/counterpoint spoof: Don, you ignorant shlub!<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump wouldn’t know a “mess” if he slipped and fell in the middle of one. Indeed, he hasn’t yet acknowledged the\u00a0mess he’s created since becoming president of the United States. The president said today at his hastily called press conference that he “inherited a mess” from President Barack H. Obama. Really, Mr. President? … Continue reading ‘I inherited a mess’; no you didn’t, Mr. President<\/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],"tags":[540,1112,1424,1434,2498,3458,4294],"class_list":["post-19826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-dow-jones-industrial-average","tag-job-growth","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-snl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19826","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=19826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19827,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19826\/revisions\/19827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}