{"id":36200,"date":"2019-03-23T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36200"},"modified":"2019-03-23T14:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T14:25:12","slug":"trump-likes-a-killer-tyrant-despot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36200","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;likes&#8217; a killer, tyrant, despot?"},"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\/2019\/03\/BBV6Y09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36201\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BBV6Y09-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BBV6Y09-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/BBV6Y09.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What in the name of international diplomatic norms is going on here?<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s administration announced sanctions against North Korea, citing its recommitment to building its nuclear arsenal despite promises to &#8220;denuclearize.&#8221; Then the president, without consulting anyone, reverses his own administration.<\/p>\n<p>The president removed the sanctions. Why?<\/p>\n<p>About all we got immediately came Friday from White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said only that Trump &#8220;likes Chairman Kim&#8221; Jong Un, the tyrant\/killer\/despot\/madman who runs the reclusive Marxist regime in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The president who dismisses American war heroes, denigrates U.S. intelligence analysts, questions his homeland security team, ignores the advice he gets from &#8220;the best people&#8221; surrounding him &#8220;likes&#8221; a guy like Kim Jong Un &#8212; the overfed dictator who starves his own people.<\/p>\n<p>Go . . . figure. If you can.<\/p>\n<p>Good grief.<\/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>What in the name of international diplomatic norms is going on here? Donald Trump&#8217;s administration announced sanctions against North Korea, citing its recommitment to building its nuclear arsenal despite promises to &#8220;denuclearize.&#8221; Then the president, without consulting anyone, reverses his own administration. The president removed the sanctions. Why? About all we got immediately came Friday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump &#8216;likes&#8217; a killer, tyrant, despot?<\/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":[5],"tags":[1424,1511,2681,7319],"class_list":["post-36200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea-nukes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36200","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=36200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36202,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36200\/revisions\/36202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}