{"id":27437,"date":"2018-01-16T14:56:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27437"},"modified":"2018-01-16T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:56:33","slug":"potus-twitter-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27437","title":{"rendered":"POTUS is at it again with Twitter &#8216;bullying&#8217;"},"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\/FBI-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27042\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FBI-1-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FBI-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FBI-1-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FBI-1-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FBI-1.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the president&#8217;s world of Twitter targets, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Democrat has now been tagged &#8220;Dicky&#8221; by Donald John Trump Sr.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Durbin stands by his assertion that Trump used the term &#8220;sh**hole&#8221; to describe Haiti, El Salvador and nations of Africa; he coined the label during a White House meeting on immigration. Durbin was present in the meeting. He said he heard it. He said Trump made that remark &#8220;repeatedly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why do we get all these immigrants from &#8220;sh**hole countries,&#8221; the president reportedly said, adding that he preferred more immigration from &#8220;countries like Norway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The remark has drawn international scorn. Trump denies he said it. Sure thing, Mr. President. I believe you, just like I believed your claim that Barack Obama was born in Africa and couldn&#8217;t serve as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>So, the guy who pledged to be the &#8220;most presidential&#8221; occupant of the White House in history after he took office has dredged up yet another Twitter nickname.<\/p>\n<p>I think one might call this a form of Internet &#8220;bullying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, that brings up a couple of questions: How about the first lady&#8217;s stated desire to make Internet bullying a hallmark during her time in the White House?<\/p>\n<p>Have you had The Talk with your husband, Melania Trump?<\/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>Welcome to the president&#8217;s world of Twitter targets, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin. The Illinois Democrat has now been tagged &#8220;Dicky&#8221; by Donald John Trump Sr. You see, Durbin stands by his assertion that Trump used the term &#8220;sh**hole&#8221; to describe Haiti, El Salvador and nations of Africa; he coined the label during a White House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS is at it again with Twitter &#8216;bullying&#8217;<\/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":[1381,1424,2245,6075,4932],"class_list":["post-27437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-dick-durbin","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-melania-trump","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27437","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=27437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27440,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27437\/revisions\/27440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}