{"id":27470,"date":"2018-01-17T21:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T21:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27470"},"modified":"2018-01-17T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T22:00:03","slug":"year-no-1-coming-end-now-next-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27470","title":{"rendered":"Year No. 1 is coming to an end … now for the next chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am not going to spend a lot of time looking back on the first year of Donald J. Trump’s time in the White House.<\/p>\n

High Plains Blogger has devoted a seemingly infinite amount of space to this subject all year long — and then some!<\/p>\n

Readers of this blog know how I feel about the president. I have no need to recap it here.<\/p>\n

I will offer this bit of advice, though, if anyone is interested in looking back. Just click on the “Search” tab on the blog’s home page and type in “Trump.” You’ll see it all.<\/p>\n

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There has been a bit of positive commentary on this blog about the president. I pledged to offer it when such matters presented themselves. I think I’ve been faithful to that pledge. The problem has been that Trump hasn’t done enough to merit more positive comments from this corner.<\/p>\n

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Looking ahead briefly to Year No. 2, to be candid I don’t expect much to change with regard to this blog’s posture relating to the president.<\/p>\n

We still have that “Russia thing” to resolve. The special counsel, Robert Mueller, remains hard at work trying to determine whether the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russian hackers who sought to influence the 2016 election outcome.<\/p>\n

Along the way, I expect the president will keep denigrating Mueller’s integrity, even though he was universally praised when the Justice Department appointed him. And … I’ll have plenty to say about that.<\/p>\n

I’ll also comment on the lies he’ll continue to tell and the insults he’ll keep hurling at his political foes as well as the media.<\/p>\n

I guess my hope for the second year of Trump’s term as president is that he is able to hone the White House into the “fine-tuned machine” he called it. He isn’t there yet.<\/p>\n

My other hope would be for the president to keep tweeting.<\/p>\n

He gives me — and other commentators — plenty of grist when he unleashes his Twitter thumbs.<\/p>\n\n

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