{"id":28357,"date":"2018-02-26T22:47:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T22:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28357"},"modified":"2018-02-28T03:07:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T03:07:15","slug":"trump-assumes-role-armchair-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28357","title":{"rendered":"Trump assumes role of ‘armchair hero’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump’s profoundly stupid boast today underscores perfectly a point I sought to make in an earlier blog post.<\/p>\n

The president assumed the role of “armchair hero” in declaring — during a White House gathering with the nation’s governors — what he would have done had he been present at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Valentine’s Day.<\/p>\n

He said he would have stormed into the building when the gunman opened fire, killing 17 students and educators.<\/p>\n

Really, Mr. President? This is the kind of idiotic nonsense that drives many of us nuts.<\/p>\n

He was speaking about former Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, who reportedly stood by — frozen — while the gunfire erupted inside the high school. He called the deputy’s conduct unacceptable. On that score, the president is correct.<\/p>\n

However, to insert himself into a tragedy and assert how he would have acted — days after the fact — speaks to a curious form of projection from someone who one would think should know better.<\/p>\n

There can be plenty to say about the deputy’s lack of action when it was need in the moment. We haven’t yet heard from him. I am one who hopes he is able and willing to explain why he didn’t do what he was trained to do.\u00a0 I don’t expect him to offer a plausible explanation, but the nation has a need to hear his version of events.<\/p>\n

Americans do not need to hear senseless boasting from a president who was nowhere near the tragedy when it struck — and broke everyone’s heart.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump’s profoundly stupid boast today underscores perfectly a point I sought to make in an earlier blog post. The president assumed the role of “armchair hero” in declaring — during a White House gathering with the nation’s governors — what he would have done had he been present at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High … Continue reading Trump assumes role of ‘armchair hero’<\/span> →<\/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":[10,13,14],"tags":[1424,7590],"class_list":["post-28357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-parkland-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28357","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=28357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28383,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28357\/revisions\/28383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}