{"id":30638,"date":"2018-06-29T21:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T21:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30638"},"modified":"2018-06-29T21:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T21:22:35","slug":"someone-needs-to-get-fired-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30638","title":{"rendered":"Someone needs to get fired at the White House"},"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 comedian posing as U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., has spoken with the president of the United States &#8230; who was flying on Air Force One when he took a phone call.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Menendez&#8221; asked Donald Trump all kinds of pointed questions about immigration policy and about his upcoming choice for the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s all beside the point. The real point is this:<em> How in the name of high-tech security did this guy get through to the president of the United States of America?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>America, we have a problem. A big one, too! No goofball comedian should be able to patch a phone call through to the president. Not ever! Imagine for a moment if the caller was a spy for, oh, Russia, North Korea, Iran or any other country intent on doing harm to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump used to make his living telling reality TV show contestants &#8220;You&#8217;re fired.&#8221; He needs to tell <em>someone<\/em> on his White House staff that very thing.<\/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>A comedian posing as U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., has spoken with the president of the United States &#8230; who was flying on Air Force One when he took a phone call. &#8220;Menendez&#8221; asked Donald Trump all kinds of pointed questions about immigration policy and about his upcoming choice for the U.S. Supreme Court. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Someone needs to get fired at the White House<\/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":[195,1424,5246],"class_list":["post-30638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-air-force-one","tag-donald-trump","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638","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=30638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30642,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638\/revisions\/30642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}