{"id":34446,"date":"2018-12-25T19:24:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34446"},"modified":"2018-12-25T19:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T19:24:03","slug":"merry-christmas-to-you-too-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34446","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas to you, too, Mr. POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump sort of offered a mixed Christmas wish to his fellow Americans.<\/p>\n

He wrote: “It’s a disgrace, what’s happening in this country, but other than that I wish every a very merry Christmas.”<\/p>\n

Geez, thanks, Mr. President.<\/p>\n

His greeting kind of reminds me of how someone might have greeted Mary Todd Lincoln: “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”<\/em><\/p>\n

The “disgrace” Trump referenced is the border wall standoff and the partial shutdown of the federal government. I get that it’s a disgrace what is happening, except that he’s a principal party to it occurring in the first place. He insists on $5 billion for a wall that stands as a waste of money that the government doesn’t have; we are in debt up to our armpits, after all, right?<\/p>\n

Trump once promised\/pledged\/committed to forcing Mexico to pay for the wall on our southern border. It ain’t happening. That means you and I could be stuck with the tab.<\/p>\n

Still, the president’s Christmas greeting offers the faintest of good wishes.<\/p>\n

I’ll accept the “Merry Christmas” part of it with some reluctance. The “disgrace” element? Well, that’s on the president as much — if not more so — as it is on everyone else in government.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump sort of offered a mixed Christmas wish to his fellow Americans. He wrote: “It’s a disgrace, what’s happening in this country, but other than that I wish every a very merry Christmas.” Geez, thanks, Mr. President. His greeting kind of reminds me of how someone might have greeted Mary Todd Lincoln: “Other than … Continue reading Merry Christmas to you, too, Mr. POTUS<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7074,978,1424,1978],"class_list":["post-34446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-build-the-wall","tag-christmas","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34446","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=34446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34447,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34446\/revisions\/34447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}