{"id":23734,"date":"2017-08-10T22:54:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T22:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23734"},"modified":"2017-08-10T22:54:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T22:54:42","slug":"trump-thanks-putin-for-kicking-out-diplomats-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23734","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;thanks&#8217; Putin for kicking out diplomats? Wow!"},"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\/07\/Donald-Trump-and-Putin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22873\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Donald-Trump-and-Putin-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Donald-Trump-and-Putin-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Donald-Trump-and-Putin.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump Sr. sat with reporters today while vacationing in New Jersey and took a question about Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked the president to respond to Putin&#8217;s decision to expel 755 U.S. diplomats from Russia in retaliation to the sanctions bill approved by Congress and signed by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank&#8221; the Russian president for kicking the Americans out, Trump responded, adding that he had planned to cut the U.S. diplomatic payroll and this gives him a chance to make good on that plan.<\/p>\n<p>No, he didn&#8217;t say he was joking. There was no apparent tongue in cheek. The president &#8220;thanked&#8221; the Russian strongman for punishing the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the diplomats who are being given the boot? The president doesn&#8217;t have their back, either.<\/p>\n<p>How many more ways does Donald Trump need to show that he has <em>no business<\/em> occupying the most noble office in the land?<\/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>Donald John Trump Sr. sat with reporters today while vacationing in New Jersey and took a question about Russian President Vladimir Putin. A reporter asked the president to respond to Putin&#8217;s decision to expel 755 U.S. diplomats from Russia in retaliation to the sanctions bill approved by Congress and signed by Trump. &#8220;I want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23734\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump &#8216;thanks&#8217; Putin for kicking out diplomats? Wow!<\/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],"tags":[1424,6932,5125],"class_list":["post-23734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-russia-sanctions","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23734","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=23734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23735,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23734\/revisions\/23735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}