{"id":33699,"date":"2018-11-21T04:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T04:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33699"},"modified":"2018-11-21T04:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T04:23:47","slug":"trump-wears-me-out-and-im-the-retired-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33699","title":{"rendered":"Trump wears me out &#8230; and I&#8217;m the retired guy!"},"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\/11\/media-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33541\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/media-2-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/media-2-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/media-2-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/media-2-1024x755.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/media-2.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My life as a retired individual has placed me in front of a TV watching news a good portion of most days.<\/p>\n<p>I will be terribly candid here. I spend too much time watching TV news. It wears me out. Why? Because so much of it deals with drama presented by Donald J. Trump, the nation&#8217;s president.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wonder: If the news of each day wears <em>me<\/em> out, how in the world does the president continue to &#8220;function,&#8221; such as he does, under the pressure of all the missteps, mistakes, miscues and misjudgments he makes?<\/p>\n<p>Jeb Bush called him the &#8220;chaos candidate&#8221; for president and said his presidency would be filled with chaos as well. Boy, howdy! The former GOP governor of Florida had that one right!<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t understand where Trump stores that cache of whatever it is that keeps him going. Nor do I understand how he interprets his tenure as president as an A+ endeavor, how he defines &#8220;winning&#8221; and how in the world anything gets done within the executive branch of the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>The president calls the cadence. That is more true with this president than many &#8212; if not all &#8212; of his predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cadence of fits and starts. It&#8217;s not a &#8220;fine-tuned machine.&#8221; It&#8217;s a clunker of a vehicle that keeps looking as if it&#8217;s falling apart piece by piece.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. I am worn out by all this chaos and confusion. But \u2026 I&#8217;ll keep watching it unfold.<\/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>My life as a retired individual has placed me in front of a TV watching news a good portion of most days. I will be terribly candid here. I spend too much time watching TV news. It wears me out. Why? Because so much of it deals with drama presented by Donald J. Trump, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump wears me out &#8230; and I&#8217;m the retired guy!<\/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":[796,1424,2858,5394],"class_list":["post-33699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-cable-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-mainstream-media","tag-tv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699","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=33699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33700,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699\/revisions\/33700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}