{"id":38042,"date":"2019-07-21T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38042"},"modified":"2019-07-21T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T00:00:24","slug":"potus-is-a-politician-no-kiddin-he-really-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38042","title":{"rendered":"POTUS is a politician … no kiddin’, he really is!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I truly admire the mendacity of Donald Trump’s supporters who contend that his “success” comes from his being a non-politician.<\/p>\n

A number of my many social media contacts keep telling me that falsehood. One of them wrote recently: He\u2019s not a politician. That\u2019s why he\u2019s getting things done in D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

OK, let’s go to the trusty, handy-dandy source upon which I rely to answer key questions, such as: How do you define a politician?<\/em><\/p>\n

I cracked open my American Heritage Dictionary, where I found this:\u00a0“One actively involved in politics.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Now, maybe a I am quibbling just a bit, but to my way of thinking that makes Donald Trump every bit the politician.<\/p>\n

Trump joined the politicians’ ranks when he rode down that gilded elevator in Trump Tower in 2015 to announce he would run for president of the United States.<\/p>\n

I am going to acknowledge the obvious. Trump’s entire adult life prior to that moment had been dedicated to self-enrichment. Public service was nowhere to be found on his resume. His background was replete with business dealings, most of which produced — at best — mixed results.<\/p>\n

He got that big stake from his father to get him started in the real estate development business. Then the dookey hit the fan with all those failed ventures: the steaks, the hooch, assorted resorts, the university \u2026 whatever.<\/p>\n

So he brought that spotty record, along with his reality TV and beauty pageant experience with him into the only political campaign he’s ever launched.<\/p>\n

I get that he wasn’t a pol prior to running for political office, but the moment he entered politics, Donald Trump became a practitioner of the profession.<\/p>\n

He became a politician.<\/p>\n

If the Trump acolytes who continue to insist that his “success” is due to his non-political background, go easy on that one, folks. The record isn’t so gleaming.<\/p>\n\n

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I truly admire the mendacity of Donald Trump’s supporters who contend that his “success” comes from his being a non-politician. A number of my many social media contacts keep telling me that falsehood. One of them wrote recently: He\u2019s not a politician. That\u2019s why he\u2019s getting things done in D.C. OK, let’s go to the … Continue reading POTUS is a politician … no kiddin’, he really is!<\/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":[1424,8792,3652,8793,3854],"class_list":["post-38042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-liars","tag-politicians","tag-real-estate-magnate","tag-reality-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38042","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=38042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38044,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38042\/revisions\/38044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}