{"id":31812,"date":"2018-08-15T03:12:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T03:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31812"},"modified":"2018-08-15T03:12:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T03:12:36","slug":"now-hes-gone-to-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31812","title":{"rendered":"Now he&#8217;s gone to the &#8216;dogs&#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\/08\/trumpdonald_081318getty_lead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31813\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trumpdonald_081318getty_lead-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trumpdonald_081318getty_lead-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/trumpdonald_081318getty_lead.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump long ago disabused anyone of considering him for the title of Dean of Decorum, or the Doctor of Dignity.<\/p>\n<p>He hurls insults at his foes, attaching hideous references to them. If an opponent happens to be African American, then he or she is susceptible to a racially tinted taunt. Ah, but if you&#8217;re both African American and a woman, well, all bets are off.<\/p>\n<p>Get a load of how the president has referred to Omarosa Manigault Newman, the current POTUS foe <em>du jour.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump referred to her in a tweet as \u201cthat dog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Classy, don&#8217;t you think? No need to answer that one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/the-memo\/401839-the-memo-trumps-dog-attack-fuels-an-already-hot-debate\">According to The Hill<\/a>: <em>Critics saw the tweet as racially charged given that Manigault Newman \u2014 a former contestant on NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Apprentice\u201d who has just published a deeply critical book about the president \u2014 was one of the few prominent African-Americans working in the White House.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This un-presidential president continues to amaze even his harshest critics. I consider myself among the hard-liners who cannot &#8211;and will not &#8212; support Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>He keeps reaffirming what I thought of his newly minted politician\u00a0 the very moment he declared himself a candidate for the presidency.<\/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 J. Trump long ago disabused anyone of considering him for the title of Dean of Decorum, or the Doctor of Dignity. He hurls insults at his foes, attaching hideous references to them. If an opponent happens to be African American, then he or she is susceptible to a racially tinted taunt. Ah, but if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31812\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now he&#8217;s gone to the &#8216;dogs&#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":[7932],"tags":[7470],"class_list":["post-31812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-omarosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31812","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=31812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31814,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31812\/revisions\/31814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}