{"id":38118,"date":"2019-07-25T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38118"},"modified":"2019-07-26T01:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T01:02:32","slug":"incompetence-or-conspiracy-within-the-white-house-or-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38118","title":{"rendered":"Incompetence or conspiracy within the White House … or both?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I heard about this event and my first thought was that it cannot be true, that it’s a phony story from a satirical source.<\/p>\n

But oh, no. It’s real. Donald Trump delivered a speech this week with a doctored version of the presidential seal flashed on the wall behind him. Someone associated with the group to whom the president was speaking put a seal up that shows a set of golf clubs and a two-headed eagle.<\/p>\n

What? Huh? Is this for real?<\/p>\n

The phony eagle<\/a> reportedly is meant to mimic a Russian symbol of totalitarian government; the golf clubs poke fun at the president’s penchant for golf. There’s also a wad of cash in the eagle’s talons, not the “E Pluribus Unum” slogan on the real presidential seal.<\/p>\n

The individual responsible for this ridiculous matter has been fired.<\/p>\n

Yet the White House apparently doesn’t believe it was done with “malicious intent.” Eh?<\/p>\n

My own takeaway is that this incident reveals a profound lack of competence within the White House, even though the culprit was connected to the group that played host to the event. I get that it doesn’t rise to the level of some other idiotic instances we have witnessed during the Trump administration: the president’s tweeting frenzy, the revolving-door resignations that have plagued the president, the assorted statements from Cabinet officials questioning the president’s competence and intelligence.<\/p>\n

This SNAFU, though, does illustrate that the president’s “fine-tuned machine” — specifically its advance team — needs an overhaul.<\/p>\n\n

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Blogger’s Note: This post has been edited to reflect a correction from the original post. I heard about this event and my first thought was that it cannot be true, that it’s a phony story from a satirical source. But oh, no. It’s real. Donald Trump delivered a speech this week with a doctored version … Continue reading Incompetence or conspiracy within the White House … or both?<\/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":[795,1424,8805],"class_list":["post-38118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cabinet","tag-donald-trump","tag-presidential-seal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38118","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=38118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38127,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38118\/revisions\/38127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}