{"id":26785,"date":"2017-12-09T22:51:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T22:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26785"},"modified":"2017-12-09T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T22:51:19","slug":"turn-off-the-tv-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26785","title":{"rendered":"Turn off the TV, Mr. President"},"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\/12\/don.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26659\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/don-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/don-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/don.png 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump told us he wouldn&#8217;t tweet once became president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be too busy&#8221; making America great again, building a wall, defeating ISIS and bringing back jobs that had been shipped to &#8220;China and Mexico,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>The president has gone Twitter crazy. He can&#8217;t stop tweeting policy decisions, criticism of foes, friends and the media.<\/p>\n<p>He also told us he wouldn&#8217;t have time to play golf, that he doesn&#8217;t even think he&#8217;ll take vacations once he took the presidential oath. How&#8217;s he done there?<\/p>\n<p>Trump is set to play more golf in his first year than his predecessor, Barack H. Obama, did during his <em>eight years<\/em> as president.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now zero for two.<\/p>\n<p>OK, now he says he doesn&#8217;t watch much television. No time for that, either. The president says he reads &#8220;a lot of documents.&#8221; Is he telling the truth on this one? The New York Times reports that Trump watches more than four hours of TV daily; it might be as much as eight hours.<\/p>\n<p>He watches CNN, Fox, a little MSNBC, perhaps a broadcast network news show or two, according to the Times. Then he tweets almost immediately after hearing the news, whether it&#8217;s &#8220;fake&#8221; or whether it comes from Fox &#8212; his favorite news network.<\/p>\n<p>So, by my score, the president is zero for three on these promises and declarations.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but what the heck. 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>Donald J. Trump told us he wouldn&#8217;t tweet once became president of the United States. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be too busy&#8221; making America great again, building a wall, defeating ISIS and bringing back jobs that had been shipped to &#8220;China and Mexico,&#8221; the president said. The president has gone Twitter crazy. He can&#8217;t stop tweeting policy decisions, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26785\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turn off the TV, Mr. President<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[540,7074,1043,1424,6712,1788,2348,3155,4932],"class_list":["post-26785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-build-the-wall","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-fake-news","tag-fox-news","tag-isis","tag-msnbc","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785","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=26785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26787,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26785\/revisions\/26787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}