{"id":19851,"date":"2017-02-18T04:29:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T04:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19851"},"modified":"2017-02-18T04:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T04:29:47","slug":"fake-news-now-gets-under-trumps-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19851","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fake news&#8217; now gets under Trump&#8217;s skin"},"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\/02\/barack-birth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19852\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/barack-birth-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else see the irony of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s bitching about &#8220;fake news&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>This is the guy who for about a half-dozen years kept alive the bogus &#8220;news&#8221; about Barack Obama&#8217;s place of birth. He questioned whether the former president was qualified to serve in the office he held for eight years.<\/p>\n<p>He kept harping on the rumor that Obama was born in Kenya, the birthplace of his father. He fomented the Mother of All Fake News Stories.<\/p>\n<p>Now\u00a0the president &#8212; the one-time bard of the birther movement &#8212; \u00a0calls anything he considers negative to be &#8220;fake news&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the irony is rich. Isn&#8217;t it?<\/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>Does anyone else see the irony of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s bitching about &#8220;fake news&#8221;? This is the guy who for about a half-dozen years kept alive the bogus &#8220;news&#8221; about Barack Obama&#8217;s place of birth. He questioned whether the former president was qualified to serve in the office he held for eight years. He kept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19851\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Fake news&#8217; now gets under Trump&#8217;s skin<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[540,5984,1424,6712],"class_list":["post-19851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-birther-movement","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19851","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=19851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19853,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19851\/revisions\/19853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}