{"id":31566,"date":"2018-08-06T14:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31566"},"modified":"2018-08-06T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:57:47","slug":"still-cant-connect-the-words-president-and-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31566","title":{"rendered":"Still can’t connect the words ‘President’ and ‘Trump’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It is with some measure of regret that I must announce that more than 18 months into Donald Trump’s term as president I remain unable to connect the words “President” and “Trump” consecutively.<\/p>\n

I wish it were different. Honest. I do wish it! I am no closer to making that leap than I was when he won the election in November 2016.<\/p>\n

It’s not the president’s policies that bother me to this extent. Heck, I disagreed with many of his predecessors repeatedly. I disagreed with President Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq; I have disagreed with President Obama’s seemingly personal ownership of public offices during his time in the White House; there was President Clinton’s perjury about over the Lewinsky relationship.<\/p>\n

And on it goes.<\/p>\n

All of those men, though, knew how to act. They behaved in a manner that lent dignity to their high and exalted office.<\/p>\n

No, the problem I continue to have with Donald Trump remains of a personal nature. Yes, I disagree with his policy. However, were he ever to start acting, sounding and comporting himself like the head of state\/head of government\/commander in chief\/leader of the free world, there would be a significant difference in the way I refer to him in his blog.<\/p>\n

He does none of that.<\/p>\n

Let’s just flash back a couple of days to that hideous re-election campaign rally in Pennsylvania. He pranced around the stage. He referred to a member of Congress as “a low IQ person”; he keeps referring to the media as the “enemy of the people” and purveyors of “fake, fake, disgusting news.”<\/p>\n

He lies incessantly, to the point that I cannot take a single, solitary statement that flies out of his mouth at face value. Nothing!<\/em> I am suspicious of every word he utters, every proclamation he makes.<\/p>\n

How in the world can I refer to this individual by attaching his duly elected title directly in front of his name? I cannot.<\/p>\n

I won’t give up every shred of hope that one day he’ll get it. That one day he’ll learn how to conduct himself with dignity and decorum. You see, I am an eternal optimist.<\/p>\n

I want this guy to start acting<\/em>\u00a0 and sounding<\/em> like a president. I just don’t expect<\/em> it of him.<\/p>\n\n

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It is with some measure of regret that I must announce that more than 18 months into Donald Trump’s term as president I remain unable to connect the words “President” and “Trump” consecutively. I wish it were different. Honest. I do wish it! I am no closer to making that leap than I was when … Continue reading Still can’t connect the words ‘President’ and ‘Trump’<\/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":[7928,7932,13],"tags":[1424,3688,5246],"class_list":["post-31566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-election","category-donald-trump","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31566","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=31566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31568,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31566\/revisions\/31568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}