{"id":20485,"date":"2017-03-20T17:39:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T17:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20485"},"modified":"2017-03-20T17:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T17:39:54","slug":"now-its-the-germans-feeling-trumps-wrath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20485","title":{"rendered":"Now it&#8217;s the Germans feeling Trump&#8217;s wrath"},"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\/AAnEO2W.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20069\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AAnEO2W-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AAnEO2W-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/AAnEO2W.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see. How many more vital U.S. allies can the president of the United States anger?<\/p>\n<p>He tells Mexico that it will pay for a wall across our nations&#8217; shared border; Mexico says &#8220;no way, dude!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump calls Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Trumbull and then berates him over his country&#8217;s immigration policy before <em>hanging up on him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The president first accuses his immediate predecessor of wiretapping his offices and then accuses the British intelligence agency of colluding with President Obama; the Brits denied it, <em>angrily.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s the Germans, who Trump now says have to pay more for their participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/mar\/19\/germany-rejects-trump-nato-us-defence?CMP=soc_567\">Germany has rejected Trump&#8217;s demand. <\/a>The Germans say they don&#8217;t owe a &#8220;debt&#8221; to NATO and won&#8217;t do what the U.S. president has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 45th president treats Russia with kid gloves; he calls Vladimir Putin a &#8220;strong leader&#8221; and says he wants to make nice with the Russians, who are doing all they can to make life miserable for the United States and our allies.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s next for Trump? Maybe he can build a wall across our <em>northern<\/em> border to keep Americans from fleeing to Canada &#8230; and then demand the Canadians pay for it, too!<\/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>Let&#8217;s see. How many more vital U.S. allies can the president of the United States anger? He tells Mexico that it will pay for a wall across our nations&#8217; shared border; Mexico says &#8220;no way, dude!&#8221; Trump calls Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Trumbull and then berates him over his country&#8217;s immigration policy before hanging up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now it&#8217;s the Germans feeling Trump&#8217;s wrath<\/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":[5,13],"tags":[5350,1424,3011,3219,7018],"class_list":["post-20485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-build-a-wall","tag-donald-trump","tag-mexico","tag-nato","tag-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20485","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=20485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20486,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20485\/revisions\/20486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}