{"id":20167,"date":"2017-03-05T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20167"},"modified":"2017-03-05T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T16:50:14","slug":"tweets-diminish-trumps-moral-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20167","title":{"rendered":"Tweets diminish Trump&#8217;s &#8216;moral authority&#8217;"},"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\/03\/720x405-GettyImages-169807399.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20168\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/720x405-GettyImages-169807399-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/720x405-GettyImages-169807399-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/720x405-GettyImages-169807399.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Friedman is a journalist of considerable reputation.<\/p>\n<p>He might, in the words of Donald J. Trump, be an &#8220;enemy of the people,&#8221; but the New York Times columnist has a well-established base of knowledge of world affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Consider his take on the president&#8217;s use of Twitter as a primary form of communication.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman appeared this morning on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; and he asserted that Trump&#8217;s &#8220;moral authority&#8221; is being damaged by his random rants that go out in the wee hours from wherever he happens to be at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the president is going to Europe soon to meet with other heads of government and heads of state. They are our allies. Our friends. Our partners.<\/p>\n<p>How will the U.S. president respond to these meetings? What might he say about President So-and-So or about Prime Minister What&#8217;s-His-Name?<\/p>\n<p>Does the president&#8217;s Twitter fetish diminish the trust that these world leaders have in the head of the greatest nation on Earth?<\/p>\n<p>Friedman believes Trump&#8217;s use of this social medium ultimately could cause great damage to this country&#8217;s standing among other world leaders who depend on America to be the source of reason, strength and wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s demonstrated careless use of Twitter undermines all of it.<\/p>\n<p>The president is playing a dangerous game.<\/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>Thomas Friedman is a journalist of considerable reputation. He might, in the words of Donald J. Trump, be an &#8220;enemy of the people,&#8221; but the New York Times columnist has a well-established base of knowledge of world affairs. Consider his take on the president&#8217;s use of Twitter as a primary form of communication. Friedman appeared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tweets diminish Trump&#8217;s &#8216;moral authority&#8217;<\/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":[5,10],"tags":[1424,2991,6878,3360,4300,4799,4932],"class_list":["post-20167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-meet-the-press","tag-mtp","tag-ny-times","tag-social-media","tag-thomas-friedman","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167","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=20167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20169,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167\/revisions\/20169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}