{"id":26390,"date":"2017-11-22T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26390"},"modified":"2017-11-22T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:45:10","slug":"donald-vs-lavar-battle-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26390","title":{"rendered":"Donald vs. LaVar: Battle for the Ages?"},"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\/11\/lavar-ball-donald-trump-ucla-1511027526-640x423.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26299\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lavar-ball-donald-trump-ucla-1511027526-640x423-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lavar-ball-donald-trump-ucla-1511027526-640x423-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/lavar-ball-donald-trump-ucla-1511027526-640x423.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s come down to this: The president of the United States, the commander in chief of the world&#8217;s mightiest military machine, is waging a war of words\/wits with a loudmouth father of sons who aspire to athletic greatness.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Donald John Trump and LaVar Ball are going back and forth via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the Leader of the Free World chooses to spend some of his time. He calls Ball &#8220;an ungrateful fool&#8221; because Ball said the president didn&#8217;t do what he said he did to obtain the freedom of one of Ball&#8217;s sons, who got caught shoplifting in China.<\/p>\n<p>The president has made a stupid feud even more stupid by his engaging this blowhard bozo in a Twitter feud.<\/p>\n<p>I know the president is hopelessly addicted to Twitter. I won&#8217;t call on him to quit engaging in this kind of petulance. He&#8217;s acting like an overgrown, overhyped pubescent punk. He can&#8217;t help himself.<\/p>\n<p>The man is diminishing the high office to which he was elected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/ncaabk\/donald-trump-calls-lavar-ball-%E2%80%98ungrateful-fool%E2%80%99-compares-him-to-%E2%80%98poor-man%E2%80%99s-version-of-don-king-but-without-the-hair%E2%80%99\/ar-BBFtIQI\">Don King without the hair?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But &#8230; he &#8220;tells it like it is.&#8221;<\/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&#8217;s come down to this: The president of the United States, the commander in chief of the world&#8217;s mightiest military machine, is waging a war of words\/wits with a loudmouth father of sons who aspire to athletic greatness. That&#8217;s right. Donald John Trump and LaVar Ball are going back and forth via Twitter. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald vs. LaVar: Battle for the Ages?<\/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":[13,17],"tags":[1424,7420,3694,4932],"class_list":["post-26390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-sports-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-lavar-ball","tag-prc","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26390","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=26390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26394,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26390\/revisions\/26394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}