{"id":40760,"date":"2020-01-14T18:47:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40760"},"modified":"2020-01-14T18:47:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:47:37","slug":"potus-steps-into-the-twitter-sewer-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40760","title":{"rendered":"POTUS steps into the Twitter sewer &#8230; once again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Iran%20%23Soleimani%20%23Muslims%20%23Pelosi%20%23Schumer&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/demagoguery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40761\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/demagoguery-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/demagoguery-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/demagoguery.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know, as weird as Donald Trump&#8217;s retweet of an image involving House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer was, it seems to almost pale in comparison to the White House press flack&#8217;s lame defense of what Trump actually did.<\/p>\n<p>Trump retweeted a doctored picture of Pelosi wearing a Muslim hijab and Schumer wearing a turban. They&#8217;re standing in front of an image depicting the Iranian flag. It is captioned &#8220;Democrats 2020.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump sought to make some sort of statement about Democrats&#8217; criticism of the air strike that killed Iranian terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani, suggesting that Democrats are soft on those who inflict terrorism on the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course that is a preposterous claim. Democrats, moreover, haven&#8217;t been &#8220;mourning&#8221; Soleimani&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>But then came White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to defend Trump&#8217;s hideous behavior. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/president-trump-retweets-fake-image-nancy-pelosi-muslim-head-coverings-in-front-of-iranian-flag\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&amp;linkId=80572378&amp;fbclid=IwAR3OhP4_ilGSQKXYMEj9Ob7e7CALuZHaFPqS3pe9g7mGmTnLxOjl5SjUwiA\">According to CBS.com<\/a>: <em>&#8220;I think the president is making clear that Democrats have been parroting Iranian talking points, and almost taking the side of terrorists and those who were out to kill Americans \u2026 I think the president was making the point that Democrats seem to hate him so much that they&#8217;re willing to be on the side of countries and leadership of countries who want to kill Americans.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Uh, no, Ms. Grisham. Democrats aren&#8217;t &#8220;on the side of countries&#8221; that want to &#8220;kill Americans.&#8221; They are questioning the intelligence and whether the White House gave enough thought to the consequences of such a significant act.<\/p>\n<p>How about stopping the demagoguery, Ms. Grisham? As for the president, how about \u2026 oh, never mind. I&#8217;m wasting my time.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Iran%20%23Soleimani%20%23Muslims%20%23Pelosi%20%23Schumer&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, as weird as Donald Trump&#8217;s retweet of an image involving House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer was, it seems to almost pale in comparison to the White House press flack&#8217;s lame defense of what Trump actually did. Trump retweeted a doctored picture of Pelosi wearing a Muslim hijab and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS steps into the Twitter sewer &#8230; once again!<\/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":[13],"tags":[7060,1424,2312,3178,9146,9011,4932],"class_list":["post-40760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-charles-schumer","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-solemaini","tag-stephanie-grisham","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40760","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=40760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40762,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40760\/revisions\/40762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}