{"id":21777,"date":"2017-05-21T13:26:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T13:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21777"},"modified":"2017-05-21T13:26:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T13:26:35","slug":"trump-as-potus-has-nowhere-to-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21777","title":{"rendered":"Trump, as POTUS, has nowhere to hide"},"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\/05\/lead_960-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21778\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lead_960-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lead_960-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lead_960-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lead_960-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic magazine has published a lengthy article detailing the difficulties facing Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It goes through a lot of what many of us know already: his missteps, his hiring decisions, his carelessness with classified information and, of course, his international relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/05\/all-the-kings-men\/526980\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/05\/all-the-kings-men\/526980\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It paints a grim picture and suggests that Trump&#8217;s presidency is collapsing before our eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it is. Maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting analysis in my mind, though, comes near the end. The Atlantic notes that as a private business executive, Trump could fire people at will; he was the CEO and no one would dare question his authority. As a candidate for the only public office he ever sought, the presidency, he could change the subject when he misspoke or &#8212; more likely &#8212; revealed some dark spot in his heart.<\/p>\n<p>As president, though, he has nowhere to hide. He must stand front and center for every single thing he does or says.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, the media are there to watch, to listen and to report his dealings to the world. It&#8217;s what the media do.<\/p>\n<p>The president no longer can get away with blaming &#8220;fake news&#8221; media reports. Every wound from which he suffers has been self-inflicted by someone whose business acumen simply doesn&#8217;t translate to political knowledge.<\/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>The Atlantic magazine has published a lengthy article detailing the difficulties facing Donald John Trump. It goes through a lot of what many of us know already: his missteps, his hiring decisions, his carelessness with classified information and, of course, his international relationships. Here&#8217;s the article: https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/05\/all-the-kings-men\/526980\/ It paints a grim picture and suggests that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21777\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump, as POTUS, has nowhere to hide<\/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":[10,13],"tags":[1424,3700,6621,5246],"class_list":["post-21777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-presidency","tag-the-atlantic","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21777","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=21777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21779,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21777\/revisions\/21779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}