{"id":20964,"date":"2017-04-12T01:03:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20964"},"modified":"2017-04-12T01:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T01:03:21","slug":"trump-keeps-teeing-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20964","title":{"rendered":"Trump keeps teeing it up"},"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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump golfs a lot despite his criticism of Obama golfing\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I05PFWHQofU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I am not going to join the critics&#8217; chorus that is yapping about Donald J. Trump&#8217;s penchant for golf.<\/p>\n<p>I defended Barack Obama&#8217;s golf outings even as Trump was criticizing him. Why? The president is never off the clock. He should be allowed to play golf on occasion, which Obama did.<\/p>\n<p>Now &#8230; fast-forward to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>The current president spent a lot of time campaigning for the office that he wouldn&#8217;t have time for golf. He&#8217;d be &#8220;too busy working for you.&#8221; He wouldn&#8217;t take a lot of time to hit the links. He would stay on the job, in the White House, in the Oval Office, in the Situation Room. He would spend his time &#8220;making great deals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the president said while campaigning for the office he now occupies.<\/p>\n<p>Has he delivered on that key campaign promise? Umm. No. He hasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>He has spent 17 of his 81 days as president at Mar-a-Lago, the ritzy resort Trump owns. He&#8217;s been playing golf. A lot of golf.<\/p>\n<p>My beef isn&#8217;t that he&#8217;s playing golf, per se, mind you. My concern is that Donald Trump is breaking his word. He promised Americans he&#8217;d keep his shoulder to the wheel of running the government. He&#8217;d be diligent in luring all those jobs that have been pilfered to overseas markets.<\/p>\n<p>I know this is a surprise, but I believe the president lied to us. He made a campaign promise he had no intention of honoring.<\/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>I am not going to join the critics&#8217; chorus that is yapping about Donald J. Trump&#8217;s penchant for golf. I defended Barack Obama&#8217;s golf outings even as Trump was criticizing him. Why? The president is never off the clock. He should be allowed to play golf on occasion, which Obama did. Now &#8230; fast-forward to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump keeps teeing it up<\/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":[540,1424,7054],"class_list":["post-20964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-presidential-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20964","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=20964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20965,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20964\/revisions\/20965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}