{"id":32888,"date":"2018-10-19T15:56:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32888"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:56:03","slug":"trump-shows-jaw-dropping-lack-of-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32888","title":{"rendered":"Trump shows jaw-dropping lack of awareness"},"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\/09\/trumpdonald_091118getty_lead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32356\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trumpdonald_091118getty_lead-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trumpdonald_091118getty_lead-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trumpdonald_091118getty_lead.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump continues to demonstrate a shocking, astonishing, dumbfounding, jaw-dropping lack of awareness and context.<\/p>\n<p>A journalist who lived in the United States walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, is kidnapped and then butchered &#8212; <em>while he was still alive<\/em>. The journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was murdered because he challenged Saudi Arabian policy of intolerance against freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>His murder has brought glaring worldwide attention to the open hostility that many governments have against journalists.<\/p>\n<p>So, what does the president of the United States do? He goes to Montana to campaign for U.S. Greg Gianforte and then heaps praise on him for the &#8220;body-slam&#8221; he put on a reporter for the British newspaper The Guardian in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Trump in effect condoned violence against the reporter, Ben Jacobs. By implication, he sounds for all the world as if he believes it&#8217;s OK for public officials to react with similar violence against media representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Does this sound like a head of state who has any understanding or appreciation of the context of his comments? Does he understand what he&#8217;s saying and the potential implications of his condoning violence against those who simply are trying to chronicle the news to those who need access to information about their government?<\/p>\n<p>This man disgusts me at so many levels \u2026<\/p>\n<p>But, what the heck. His base loves hearing the garbage that flies out of his mouth, which is the only consideration about which Donald Trump cares.<\/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 continues to demonstrate a shocking, astonishing, dumbfounding, jaw-dropping lack of awareness and context. A journalist who lived in the United States walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, is kidnapped and then butchered &#8212; while he was still alive. The journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was murdered because he challenged Saudi Arabian policy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32888\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump shows jaw-dropping lack of awareness<\/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":[10],"tags":[1424,8049,2589,4128],"class_list":["post-32888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-jamal-khashoggi","tag-journalists","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32888","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=32888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32889,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32888\/revisions\/32889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}