{"id":35342,"date":"2019-02-07T22:28:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35342"},"modified":"2019-02-07T22:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:29:17","slug":"get-ready-for-the-pounding-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35342","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for the pounding, Mr. POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump is going to get a social media whipping over a gaffe he uttered today at the National Prayer Breakfast.<\/p>\n

He made a reference to those who fought for “the abolition of civil rights.” As the saying goes, “Oops.”<\/p>\n

I’m going to give the president a pass on this one. That kind of thing happens. Public figures say things mistakenly. They get thoughts muddled in their heads from time to time.<\/p>\n

I do have two questions: Was the president reading<\/em> those remarks on the Teleprompter or did he blurt it out extemporaneously?<\/p>\n

I do hope it was an ad-libbed<\/em> gaffe, which would be a bit more understandable than if he read it off some prepared text.<\/p>\n

If it’s the latter, then we have to ask: Did the text actually contain that gaffe? If not, then what did the president think<\/em> he was reading?<\/p>\n

If Trump was reading the text and recited what was scrolling up on the device politicians use to keep them on track, well . . . then someone has some serious explaining to do.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump is going to get a social media whipping over a gaffe he uttered today at the National Prayer Breakfast. He made a reference to those who fought for “the abolition of civil rights.” As the saying goes, “Oops.” I’m going to give the president a pass on this one. That kind of … Continue reading Get ready for the pounding, 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":[1008,1424,3206],"class_list":["post-35342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-civil-rights","tag-donald-trump","tag-national-prayer-breakfast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35342","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=35342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35343,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35342\/revisions\/35343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}