{"id":38593,"date":"2019-08-25T02:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38593"},"modified":"2019-08-25T02:59:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T02:59:47","slug":"potus-needs-to-work-on-his-comedic-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38593","title":{"rendered":"POTUS needs to work on his comedic timing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“It was sarcasm.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s how Donald Trump has described his much-derided remark that he is the “chosen one” to deal with China and to wage a knock-down trade war with the Asian economic powerhouse.<\/p>\n

Critics have said the remark revealed some sort of “messianic complex” in the president, given that he did look to the sky when he made the statement to a gaggle of reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen the incident in question a few times<\/a>. I don’t yet know<\/em> what he meant when he said it. Was he joking or was he making some sort of statement about being selected by God Almighty to wage a trade war with China?<\/p>\n

I’ll just offer this observation. If the president was “joking,” he needs to work on his comedic timing. The humor<\/em> of the statement was lost on many of us who saw it.<\/p>\n\n

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“It was sarcasm.” That’s how Donald Trump has described his much-derided remark that he is the “chosen one” to deal with China and to wage a knock-down trade war with the Asian economic powerhouse. Critics have said the remark revealed some sort of “messianic complex” in the president, given that he did look to the … Continue reading POTUS needs to work on his comedic timing<\/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":[956,1424,3694,6965],"class_list":["post-38593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-prc","tag-trade-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593","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=38593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38594,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593\/revisions\/38594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}