{"id":30958,"date":"2018-07-18T23:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30958"},"modified":"2018-07-18T23:13:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:13:51","slug":"how-stable-can-potus-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30958","title":{"rendered":"How ‘stable’ can POTUS remain?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I know that Donald J. Trump calls himself a “stable genius.”<\/p>\n

Why, he even inserted the word “very” in his most recent self-glorification. His use of the v-word reminded me of something one of my mass communications professors asked me when he read one of my stories: “What does the word ‘very’ do for you?”<\/p>\n

George Carver didn’t like the word. He thought it was unnecessary. He was right.<\/p>\n

The president’s “stability” must be getting tested these days. He goes to Europe and has a generally hideous meeting with NATO leaders; then he ventured to London and trashed his host, Prime Minister Teresa May, only to deny he said what was published in the Sun newspaper.<\/p>\n

It got even worse. Trump went to Helsinki and groveled at Vladimir Putin’s feet, said he didn’t know why Russia “would” interfere in our election; then he kinda\/sorta took it back — the next day!<\/em> — by saying he meant to say “wouldn’t.” Whatever.<\/p>\n

The scorn is piling up. Our allies abroad cannot trust the president. He’s being played for a fool by Russia. The critics at home now include many from within his own Republican Party. Former CIA boss John Brennan and others are saying Trump’s Helsinki presser was “treasonous.”<\/p>\n

How much can this guy take?<\/p>\n

Oh, wait. The president has no shame. A shameless man has a deep well of whatever it is that allows him to delude himself.<\/p>\n\n

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I know that Donald J. Trump calls himself a “stable genius.” Why, he even inserted the word “very” in his most recent self-glorification. His use of the v-word reminded me of something one of my mass communications professors asked me when he read one of my stories: “What does the word ‘very’ do for you?” … Continue reading How ‘stable’ can POTUS remain?<\/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":[13],"tags":[1424,7886,7162,5125],"class_list":["post-30958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-helsinki-meeting","tag-russian-meddling","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30958","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=30958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31096,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30958\/revisions\/31096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}