{"id":25292,"date":"2017-10-07T04:08:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25292"},"modified":"2017-10-07T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T04:08:10","slug":"what-kind-of-game-is-this-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25292","title":{"rendered":"What kind of game is this, Mr. POTUS?"},"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\/10\/858054564.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25293\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/858054564-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/858054564-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/858054564-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/858054564-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/858054564.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There he was, flanked on both sides by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a cadre of senior military officers and spouses, not to mention his own wife, the first lady of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does Donald John Trump do? He tosses out a cryptic message about &#8220;the calm before the storm,&#8221; hinting that there might be possibly, maybe, perhaps something about to happen. A &#8220;storm&#8221; might be brewing.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; where? What kind of storm? A military one? A political one?<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked the president what he meant. His answer? You&#8217;ll find out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Huh? Eh? What the &#8230; ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What is this clown doing? Why does he say these things? Why does he flap his yap so gratuitously, leaving the nation guessing on what he means, what he&#8217;s saying and wondering whether we&#8217;re about to go to war?<\/p>\n<p>Is this what all those Trumpkins of this nation mean by &#8220;telling it like it is?&#8221; If so, then I&#8217;m left to wonder what the &#8220;it&#8221; means.<\/p>\n<p>Weird, man. Weird.<\/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>There he was, flanked on both sides by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a cadre of senior military officers and spouses, not to mention his own wife, the first lady of the United States. So, what does Donald John Trump do? He tosses out a cryptic message about &#8220;the calm before the storm,&#8221; hinting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What kind of game is this, Mr. POTUS?<\/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":[12],"tags":[1424,2565,7354],"class_list":["post-25292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-joint-chiefs-of-staff","tag-trumpkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25292","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=25292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25294,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25292\/revisions\/25294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}