{"id":32272,"date":"2018-09-12T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32272"},"modified":"2018-09-12T00:16:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T00:16:12","slug":"remembering-9-11-with-false-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32272","title":{"rendered":"Remembering 9\/11 &#8230; with false praise"},"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>Donald J. Trump chose to remember 9\/11 in a most curious &#8212; and shameful &#8212; manner.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he went to Shanksville, Pa., and delivered some moving remarks paying tribute to the passengers who fought the hijackers intent on crashing United 93 into the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Then he returned to the Oval Office and boasted about how &#8220;great&#8221; the government performed a year ago when Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. The response, he said, was the best in history.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but wait! The death toll in Puerto Rico has been, um, <em>adjusted<\/em>. Instead of 64 deaths, we now know that <em>2,975 Americans<\/em> died from the wrath of the storm that ravaged the island territory.<\/p>\n<p>It took a year to restore power. Food and water was painfully slow to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>So, on the day supposedly dedicated to remembering the heroes and victims of 9\/11, the president decided to lie &#8212; <em>yet again<\/em> &#8212; about the government&#8217;s response to a human tragedy in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s penchant for self-aggrandizement continues to amaze many Americans. Sure, he has those who support him. They&#8217;ll cheer him on. Not me.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s inability to set aside the false narrative about the government&#8217;s response to a tragic event demonstrates yet again the president&#8217;s ignorance about the complex nation he was elected to govern.<\/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 chose to remember 9\/11 in a most curious &#8212; and shameful &#8212; manner. Yes, he went to Shanksville, Pa., and delivered some moving remarks paying tribute to the passengers who fought the hijackers intent on crashing United 93 into the U.S. Capitol. Then he returned to the Oval Office and boasted about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering 9\/11 &#8230; with false praise<\/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":[95,1424,7330],"class_list":["post-32272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-95","tag-donald-trump","tag-hurricane-maria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272","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=32272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32273,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32272\/revisions\/32273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}