{"id":25511,"date":"2017-10-18T14:53:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25511"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:54:00","slug":"trump-trips-over-himself-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25511","title":{"rendered":"Trump trips over himself again"},"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\/johnson.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25512\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/johnson-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/johnson-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/johnson.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is it about Donald Trump that prevents him from doing something quietly, gracefully, with empathy and compassion?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s walked into yet another controversy, this time over a phone call he made to the wife of a fallen U.S. Army soldier who was among four soldiers killed in Niger.<\/p>\n<p>A Florida congresswoman, Democrat Frederica Wilson, said the president told Myeshia Johnson that her husband, Sgt. David Johnson, &#8220;knew what he was getting into.&#8221; He added that &#8220;it still hurts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/rep-trump-told-slain-soldiers-widow-that-he-knew-what-he-was-getting-into\/ar-AAtFh8H?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">He said, she said<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump, quite naturally, has denied saying what Wilson alleges he said. Rep. Wilson said she was overheard the conversation between the president and Mrs. Johnson and is standing by her comment.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t pass any judgment on who&#8217;s right, except to note yet again that Trump has shown quite a propensity for prevarication. I have no knowledge of Rep. Wilson&#8217;s reputation for veracity.<\/p>\n<p>I guess my point here is that Trump simply is not wired to perform simple &#8212; but admittedly tough &#8212; tasks without somehow calling attention to himself. It&#8217;s always &#8220;lights, camera, action!&#8221; with this guy.<\/p>\n<p>He said previous presidents didn&#8217;t call the loved ones of fallen warriors. Aides to Presidents Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama have denied vehemently what Trump has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>And so &#8230; the chaos continues.<\/p>\n<p>Sad.<\/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>What is it about Donald Trump that prevents him from doing something quietly, gracefully, with empathy and compassion? He&#8217;s walked into yet another controversy, this time over a phone call he made to the wife of a fallen U.S. Army soldier who was among four soldiers killed in Niger. A Florida congresswoman, Democrat Frederica Wilson, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25511\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump trips over himself again<\/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":[12,13],"tags":[540,7376,1424,3688],"class_list":["post-25511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton-george-w-bush","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25511","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=25511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25514,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25511\/revisions\/25514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}