{"id":22478,"date":"2017-06-20T16:22:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22478"},"modified":"2017-06-20T16:22:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:22:35","slug":"still-cannot-connect-two-words-directly-to-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22478","title":{"rendered":"Still cannot connect two words directly to each other"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am in the midst of a deepening dilemma.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump has been president of the United States for 150-plus days and I still cannot connect the words “President” and “Trump” consecutively when I refer to this individual.<\/p>\n

It troubles me a little bit. A part of me wants to do it. A bigger part of me refuses to allow it.<\/p>\n

I’ve written already that I accept that Trump won the 2016 presidential election. He pulled in the requisite number of Electoral College votes to defeat Hillary Rodham Clinton, who won just a shade less than 3 million more popular votes than the guy who beat her.<\/p>\n

The electoral disparity isn’t what keeps me from total recognition of Trump as president. Heck, if that had been the driver, then I wouldn’t have referred to George W. Bush as “President Bush” during his two terms in the White House. The difference is that President Bush stepped into the role to which he was elected. The 9\/11 attacks barely nine months into his presidency defined him and he rose to the challenge.<\/p>\n

Trump is different. Trump continues to demonstrate — through all sorts of actions and utterances — that he remains unfit for the office. His Twitter tirades provide more than ample evidence of his unfitness.<\/p>\n

I’ve been scolded by critics of this blog for declining to attach the president’s title directly to his name. They’re entitled to their view. I am entitled to mine.<\/p>\n

With that, I’ll continue to resist giving the president his full measure of respect until he can demonstrate — to my satisfaction — that he has earned it.<\/p>\n\n

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I am in the midst of a deepening dilemma. Donald J. Trump has been president of the United States for 150-plus days and I still cannot connect the words “President” and “Trump” consecutively when I refer to this individual. It troubles me a little bit. A part of me wants to do it. A bigger … Continue reading Still cannot connect two words directly to each other<\/span> →<\/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],"tags":[95,1424,1551,1899,2139,3700],"class_list":["post-22478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-95","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","tag-george-w-bush","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22478","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=22478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22479,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22478\/revisions\/22479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}