{"id":40814,"date":"2020-01-18T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40814"},"modified":"2020-01-18T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T00:00:11","slug":"potus-turns-salute-to-football-champs-into-a-campaign-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40814","title":{"rendered":"POTUS turns salute to football champs into a campaign event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23evangelicals%20%23impeachment%20%23Senatetrial%20%23LSU%20%23collegefootball&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/trump-and-lsu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40815\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/trump-and-lsu-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/trump-and-lsu-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/trump-and-lsu-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/trump-and-lsu.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump, the current president of the United States, just cannot help himself.<\/p>\n<p>The Louisiana State University Tigers showed up at the White House ostensibly to receive a salute from Trump for the Tigers winning the college football championship. Hey, LSU whipped Clemson by a score of 42-25.<\/p>\n<p>So, Trump invited them to the White House, per the customary reception given to sports champs.<\/p>\n<p>What does the president do? He turns the event into a campaign event. He yapped and yammered about the impeachment, saying that despite the great economy they want to &#8220;impeach the son of a bi***.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s the language that flew out of the mouth &#8212; at the White House &#8212; of the <em>evangelical Christian movement&#8217;s<\/em> favorite politician. He makes me so (not) proud of the president.<\/p>\n<p>He blathered some more about how he has supposedly rebuilt the military, brought justice to terrorist leaders.<\/p>\n<p>This is what we get when we have an impeached president who also is running for re-election. Indeed, this also is what we get when we have a president who cannot separate his own political fortunes from events &#8212; such as a ceremony to salute a college football team &#8212; that have nothing to do with those political fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump clearly is obsessed with this impeachment trial. He also is obsessed &#8212; to the nth degree &#8212; with his political standing. Trump takes every opportunity he can find to further buttress his status.<\/p>\n<p>Even when such politicking has <em>no place<\/em> in an unrelated event.<\/p>\n<p>Weird.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23evangelicals%20%23impeachment%20%23Senatetrial%20%23LSU%20%23collegefootball&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald John Trump, the current president of the United States, just cannot help himself. The Louisiana State University Tigers showed up at the White House ostensibly to receive a salute from Trump for the Tigers winning the college football championship. Hey, LSU whipped Clemson by a score of 42-25. So, Trump invited them to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS turns salute to football champs into a campaign event<\/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":[9174,1424,2253,9173,3688,8655,5246],"class_list":["post-40814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-college-football-champs","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-lsu","tag-potus","tag-senate-trial","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40814","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=40814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40816,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40814\/revisions\/40816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}