{"id":23855,"date":"2017-08-14T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23855"},"modified":"2017-08-14T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T14:24:38","slug":"trump-shows-yet-again-his-true-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23855","title":{"rendered":"Trump shows yet again his true self"},"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>It took Donald John Trump several hours to say something publicly about the riot in Charlottesville, Va.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks missed by a mile. Then Kenneth Frazier resigned from the President&#8217;s Manufacturing Council in protest over the tone of the president&#8217;s remarks on the riots. They didn&#8217;t go far enough, Frazier said. The president needed to condemn the racists and neo-Nazis who provoked the riot.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Merck CEO quit the president&#8217;s council.<\/p>\n<p>You can read Frazier&#8217;s remarks\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/companies\/merck-ceo-resigns-from-trump-council-after-charlottesville\/ar-AAq3K0y?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartanntp\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How long did it take for Trump to respond to Ken Frazier&#8217;s resignation? Hardly no time at all.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted this: &#8220;now that Ken Frazier of Merck Pharma has resigned from President&#8217;s Manufacturing Council, he will have more time to LOWER RIPOFF DRUG PRICES!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK, did I mention that Kenneth Frazier is African-American? Oh, wait! I just did.<\/p>\n<p>There you go. I believe we have just witnessed another remarkable demonstration of the president&#8217;s lack of character.<\/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>It took Donald John Trump several hours to say something publicly about the riot in Charlottesville, Va. His remarks missed by a mile. Then Kenneth Frazier resigned from the President&#8217;s Manufacturing Council in protest over the tone of the president&#8217;s remarks on the riots. They didn&#8217;t go far enough, Frazier said. The president needed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23855\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump shows yet again his true self<\/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],"tags":[7240,1424,7244],"class_list":["post-23855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-charlottesville-riot","tag-donald-trump","tag-neo-nazis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855","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=23855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23856,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions\/23856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}