{"id":24423,"date":"2017-09-03T02:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T02:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24423"},"modified":"2017-09-03T02:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T02:49:34","slug":"trump-earns-praise-but-beware-of-future-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24423","title":{"rendered":"Trump earns praise; but beware of future criticism"},"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\/09\/DIvU5xrVYAACFLH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24425\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DIvU5xrVYAACFLH-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DIvU5xrVYAACFLH-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DIvU5xrVYAACFLH-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DIvU5xrVYAACFLH.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It really didn&#8217;t hurt at all to say something kind about Donald Trump in an earlier blog post.<\/p>\n<p>I had vowed to speak well of the president when I felt it was necessary. His visit &#8212; along with the first lady, Melania &#8212; to Houston today gave me that chance.<\/p>\n<p>The president has now made two trips in just a few days to the Texas Gulf Coast in the wake of the storm Harvey&#8217;s massive, destructive blow to the region. The president took plenty of heat for his first visit, in which he didn&#8217;t visit with storm victims. He instead patted politicians on the back for their response.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s visit was vastly different. It was the kind of visit the president should have made when he ventured to Corpus Christi, which had suffered huge wind damage.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2017\/09\/trump-does-right-by-harveys-victims\/<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll continue to challenge Donald Trump, however, as we move farther along into his presidency. I don&#8217;t intend to change my mind about the man&#8217;s fitness for the job and, to be candid, nothing that happened today in Houston and later in Lake Charles, La., has persuaded me differently.<\/p>\n<p>I just feel compelled once again to offer the man a good word of encouragement for returning to the scene of this unspeakable natural disaster. As the picture indicates, the victims of Harvey&#8217;s wrath appreciated seeing him, hearing his soothing words and sharing a smile with a president who willing to take a selfie.<\/p>\n<p>To be candid, pictures like this make me smile, too.<\/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 really didn&#8217;t hurt at all to say something kind about Donald Trump in an earlier blog post. I had vowed to speak well of the president when I felt it was necessary. His visit &#8212; along with the first lady, Melania &#8212; to Houston today gave me that chance. The president has now made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump earns praise; but beware of future criticism<\/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":[1424,2022,7268,6075],"class_list":["post-24423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gulf-coast","tag-hurricane-harvey","tag-melania-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24423","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=24423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24426,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24423\/revisions\/24426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}