{"id":37323,"date":"2019-06-04T23:20:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T23:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37323"},"modified":"2019-06-04T23:20:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T23:20:47","slug":"fake-news-purveyor-in-chief-is-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37323","title":{"rendered":"Fake News Purveyor in Chief is at it again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Trumplies%20%23UKprotests%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-protest-london.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37324\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-protest-london-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-protest-london-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-protest-london-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-protest-london-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald &#8220;Fake News Purveyor in Chief&#8221; Trump was at it again today.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States labeled reports of huge protests of his visit to the United Kingdom as &#8220;fake news.&#8221; He told a press conference that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t see&#8221; large protests. He said the big crowds were there to cheer his presence.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Wrong! Here is yet another example of Donald Trump being unwilling &#8212; I won&#8217;t say <em>&#8220;unable&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; to tell the truth, even when there is a mountain of physical evidence to debunk whatever nonsense flies out of his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>There has been plenty of video showing the massive protests in London. The Brits do not like the U.S. president, to which I will acknowledge that they&#8217;re in good company; most Americans don&#8217;t like him, either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/446813-trump-dismisses-uk-protests-as-fake-news\">The Hill reports<\/a>: <em>It is possible that Trump had not been exposed to the protests as he has spent the vast majority of his time in central London, where police established a large security perimeter in anticipation of his visit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a fair point. But was he <em>unaware<\/em> of the protests as they were occurring?<\/p>\n<p>OK, I get that Trump does have solid support among those who comprise his political &#8220;base.&#8221; Whether it&#8217;s in this country or abroad, they&#8217;re out there, too.<\/p>\n<p>However, they were not out <em>en masse<\/em> today as the president toured London with British Prime Minister Teresa May.<\/p>\n<p>But yet \u2026 Donald Trump chose to mischaracterize the reception he got. He did so in spite of what the world saw with its own eyes.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wonder: Is there something seriously wrong with a president whose lying is accelerating at a breakneck pace?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Trumplies%20%23UKprotests%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald &#8220;Fake News Purveyor in Chief&#8221; Trump was at it again today. The president of the United States labeled reports of huge protests of his visit to the United Kingdom as &#8220;fake news.&#8221; He told a press conference that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t see&#8221; large protests. He said the big crowds were there to cheer his presence. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fake News Purveyor in Chief is at it again<\/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":[6],"tags":[1424,7522,6664,7128],"class_list":["post-37323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intgernational-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-teresa-may","tag-trump-protests","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323","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=37323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37325,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323\/revisions\/37325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}