{"id":37354,"date":"2019-06-06T22:55:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37354"},"modified":"2019-06-06T22:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:55:32","slug":"potus-manages-to-trample-on-his-own-high-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37354","title":{"rendered":"POTUS manages to trample on his own high moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump is not without some political skill.<\/p>\n

He did, after all, manage to win a presidential election when every pundit in America was predicting his defeat in 2016.<\/p>\n

The president also is quite good on a more dubious level. When given a chance to shine, to speak with high-minded rhetoric on behalf of the nation — he manages to trample all over his own moment of statesmanship.<\/p>\n

Trump went to France this week to honor the memory of those who died during the D-Day invasion of Europe on June 6,1944, 75 years ago. He delivered a glorious speech to the crowd at Normandy. He said the young men who stormed the beach to liberate a continent were the greatest people “who will ever live.”<\/p>\n

But only moments before delivering those remarks, Trump managed to tape an interview with the Fox News Channel. There he was, sitting before a cemetery filled with the headstones of fallen Allied warriors.<\/p>\n

That backdrop was the perfect antithesis<\/em> to what came out of his mouth. Donald Trump managed to call former special counsel Robert Mueller — a former Marine who was wounded in combat during the Vietnam War, who received the Bronze Star for valor in combat — a “fool.” He said Mueller “made a fool of himself” with his report detailing the conclusions he reached regarding the 22-month investigation into alleged collusion with Russians who attacked our electoral system.<\/p>\n

While speaking to Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham, Trump also managed to call House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a “disaster.”<\/p>\n

My point is this: Presidents don’t normally resort to that kind of partisan bickering while in the midst of representing our nation on the worldwide stage. They damn sure don’t do such things while commemorating monumentally historic events such as the D-Day invasion, an event that many historians describe as the decisive battle of World War II.<\/p>\n

Presidents are supposed to recognize the solemnity of these events and behave accordingly.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump doesn’t play by those rules. He doesn’t play by any of the normal conventions associated with his high and exalted office.<\/p>\n

His base adores him for the crassness he exhibits.<\/p>\n

It sickens the rest of us.<\/p>\n\n

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