{"id":33161,"date":"2018-10-29T21:48:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33161"},"modified":"2018-10-29T21:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:48:11","slug":"call-for-unity-and-harmony-runs-smack-into-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33161","title":{"rendered":"Call for unity and harmony runs smack into this"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Take a gander at these tweets, sent out in tandem.<\/p>\n

They came from the fingertips of the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The president wants us to unite. He wants us to set aside our differences, or speak with civility to each other about them.<\/p>\n

Why, then, does he insist on calling the media the “true enemy of the people”? Why does he keep insisting that the media’s mission is to spread “fake news” and to engage in “open hostility ” toward his administration?<\/p>\n

This is the kind of message that runs directly counter to any phony calls for unity and harmony and for civil discussion.<\/p>\n

The president and first lady will go Tuesday to Pittsburgh to speak to the survivors and family members of the victims of the massacre at Tree of Life synagogue. He’ll say the right things in the moment. Then he well could return to the type of messaging we keep seeing, reading and hearing.<\/p>\n

If the president really intended to lower the temperature, he would stop sending messages like this into cyberspace. He would cease this endless, relentless Twitter tantrum\/tirade against the media and his opponents.<\/p>\n

I believe you could this “cyber bullying.” Isn’t that correct, Mme. First Lady?<\/p>\n\n

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Take a gander at these tweets, sent out in tandem. They came from the fingertips of the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The president wants us to unite. He wants us to set aside our differences, or speak with civility to each other about them. Why, then, does he insist on calling … Continue reading Call for unity and harmony runs smack into this<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7932],"tags":[1221,1424,4932,7269],"class_list":["post-33161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-cyber-bullying","tag-donald-trump","tag-twitter","tag-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33161","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=33161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33163,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33161\/revisions\/33163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}