{"id":29460,"date":"2018-04-29T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29460"},"modified":"2018-04-29T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T20:02:09","slug":"now-its-trumps-turn-to-turn-the-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29460","title":{"rendered":"Now it&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s turn to turn the page"},"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\/2018\/04\/5abeee911e000008087b0393.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28981\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5abeee911e000008087b0393-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5abeee911e000008087b0393-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5abeee911e000008087b0393.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nation is still reeling &#8212; more or less &#8212; from comedian Michelle Wolf&#8217;s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner.<\/p>\n<p>She belittled in a vulgar fashion the looks of the White House press secretary, using language I won&#8217;t use on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf has gotten her share of criticism, which I believe is deserved.<\/p>\n<p>There is another side to this matter. It involves the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Wolf supporters say Trump is equally guilty of flinging insults, of denigrating people&#8217;s appearance or their physical disability. He uses highly intemperate language when he tweets statements at all hours of the day and night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll ask this of the president: Why don&#8217;t you, sir, start speaking with a lot more dignity and decorum when you criticize those who oppose you?<\/p>\n<p>Trump gave Wolf ammunition she thought she could use against him when she took the podium the correspondents dinner. Just maybe the president could &#8220;disarm&#8221; his critics just a bit by adopting a more civilized &#8212; and, um, <em>presidential<\/em> &#8212; manner of speaking to the issues of the day.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Having said that, I am acutely aware that none of this is likely to occur. Donald J. Trump is not wired to behave in a presidential manner.<\/p>\n<p>I just had to put it on the record.<\/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>The nation is still reeling &#8212; more or less &#8212; from comedian Michelle Wolf&#8217;s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner. She belittled in a vulgar fashion the looks of the White House press secretary, using language I won&#8217;t use on this blog. Wolf has gotten her share of criticism, which I believe is deserved. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now it&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s turn to turn the page<\/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":[1424,7728,7729,5250],"class_list":["post-29460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-michelle-wolf","tag-white-house-correspondents","tag-white-house-press-secretary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29460","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=29460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29461,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29460\/revisions\/29461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}