{"id":30683,"date":"2018-07-01T01:51:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T01:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30683"},"modified":"2018-07-01T01:51:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T01:51:49","slug":"hey-potus-just-tells-it-like-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30683","title":{"rendered":"Hey, POTUS just &#8216;tells it like it is&#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\/2018\/07\/donnie.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30684\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/donnie-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/donnie-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/donnie-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/donnie.jpeg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump&#8217;s tweet storms are overwhelming him.<\/p>\n<p>Slate.com reports that the president has just denied saying something he actually said via Twitter three days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Slate.com article is <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2018\/06\/immigration-bill-president-falsely-claims-he-never-pushed-republicans-to-vote-for-measure.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said this weekend that he never asked Republicans in Congress to vote on an immigration bill.<\/p>\n<p>But, but, but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Three days earlier, in an all-capital-letter tweet &#8212; to emphasize the point, I guess &#8212; he<em> did<\/em> encourage Republicans to do precisely the very thing he would deny urging them to do.<\/p>\n<p>Is this just the president &#8220;telling it like it is&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>To me, it is the president fumbling, bumbling and stumbling his way around a process of which he has zero understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Weird.<\/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>Donald John Trump&#8217;s tweet storms are overwhelming him. Slate.com reports that the president has just denied saying something he actually said via Twitter three days ago. The Slate.com article is here. He said this weekend that he never asked Republicans in Congress to vote on an immigration bill. But, but, but &#8230; Three days earlier, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey, POTUS just &#8216;tells it like it is&#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":[13,14],"tags":[1424,2245,5651],"class_list":["post-30683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-slate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30683","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=30683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30685,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30683\/revisions\/30685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}