{"id":21802,"date":"2017-05-22T15:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21802"},"modified":"2017-05-22T15:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T15:43:28","slug":"what-is-it-now-low-energy-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21802","title":{"rendered":"What? Is it now &#8216;Low Energy&#8217; Donald?"},"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\/untitled-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21803\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/untitled-3-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/untitled-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/untitled-3.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know I didn&#8217;t dream this, but didn&#8217;t Donald J. Trump once accuse Republican rival Jeb Bush of being &#8220;low energy Jeb&#8221; and didn&#8217;t he say that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton lacked the &#8220;stamina&#8221; be president of the United States?<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; what happened to the president in Saudi Arabia? He blurted out the term &#8220;Islamic extremism&#8221; when he meant to say &#8220;Islamist extremism.&#8221; Muslims understand the difference between &#8220;Islamic&#8221; and &#8220;Islamist.&#8221; The former term often is used to lump all Muslims in with the monsters who terrorize innocent people.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s staff blamed the slip on &#8220;exhaustion.&#8221; Trump was pretty darn tired, they said. He didn&#8217;t mean what he said, supposedly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fox2now.com\/2017\/05\/22\/wh-trump-was-exhausted-when-he-said-islamic-extremism\/\">http:\/\/fox2now.com\/2017\/05\/22\/wh-trump-was-exhausted-when-he-said-islamic-extremism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not that big of a deal. It does, however, point out the danger of the kind of rhetoric that poured out of a presidential candidate&#8217;s mouth and it brings into sharp relief his performance while holding the office he fought so hard to obtain.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t stoop to calling the president any of the names he hung on so many of his political rivals.<\/p>\n<p>I just thought I would remind everyone of what he said about others and how they might feel now that he&#8217;s sitting squarely in the hot seat.<\/p>\n<p>Just think, too: He did this at the <em>beginning<\/em> of his first overseas venture as president. I mean, c&#8217;mon! He had all the time in the world to rest up and get ready for 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>I know I didn&#8217;t dream this, but didn&#8217;t Donald J. Trump once accuse Republican rival Jeb Bush of being &#8220;low energy Jeb&#8221; and didn&#8217;t he say that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton lacked the &#8220;stamina&#8221; be president of the United States? So &#8230; what happened to the president in Saudi Arabia? He blurted out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What? 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