{"id":37331,"date":"2019-06-05T17:02:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37331"},"modified":"2019-06-05T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T17:02:59","slug":"such-clumsiness-at-this-state-visit-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37331","title":{"rendered":"Such clumsiness at this state visit &#8230; oh, my"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=WorldWarII%20%23POTUS%20%23QueenElizabethII&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth II invited Donald and Melania Trump for a state visit to the United Kingdom, where the president and first lady are going to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings on Normandy Beach in France, just across the English Channel.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2026 it happens that four of the president&#8217;s five children also showed up, too. They all had seats at the state dinner. They&#8217;ve been photographed sightseeing and, oh, just being seen.<\/p>\n<p>We have Don Jr., Eric and his wife, Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner and Tiffany all on board. Barron, the first couple&#8217;s teenaged son, isn&#8217;t there, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Some folks are wondering how the adult Trumps were allowed to attend a visit that reportedly included an invitation only to Dad and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular interest is the presence of Don Jr., Eric and Tiffany, none of whom have positions within the administration; Ivanka and Jared, of course, are &#8220;senior advisers&#8221; to the president.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the invitation reportedly only was sent to the first couple.<\/p>\n<p>What are those younger Trumps doing there?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=WorldWarII%20%23POTUS%20%23QueenElizabethII&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth II invited Donald and Melania Trump for a state visit to the United Kingdom, where the president and first lady are going to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings on Normandy Beach in France, just across the English Channel. But \u2026 it happens that four of the president&#8217;s five children also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Such clumsiness at this state visit &#8230; oh, my<\/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":[1225,1424,8669,5302],"class_list":["post-37331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-d-day","tag-donald-trump","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37331","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=37331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37332,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37331\/revisions\/37332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}