{"id":42185,"date":"2020-04-11T22:49:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T22:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42185"},"modified":"2020-04-11T22:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T22:49:55","slug":"nothing-from-potus-today-ah-the-silence-is-so-golden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42185","title":{"rendered":"Nothing from POTUS today? Ah, the silence is so golden!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23Fauci&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/donald-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41939\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/donald-trump-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/donald-trump-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/donald-trump.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump didn&#8217;t go on the air today to blather on about the &#8220;fantastic job&#8221; he and his team are doing in response to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Did you miss him? Neither did I.<\/p>\n<p>The president has spent far too much time standing in front of us yapping and yammering about this and that. He has hogged the microphone away from the medical, military and logistical experts who stand with him on the White House briefing room platform.<\/p>\n<p>There was that remarkable moment earlier this week when a reporter asked a question directly of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading infectious disease doctor in the world, and Trump wouldn&#8217;t let Fauci answer it. The president slammed the door shut on the reporter.<\/p>\n<p>So it has gone, <em>ad nauseum<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is being said that Trump isn&#8217;t helping himself by talking too much. To be candid, I don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s a** about whether he helps himself by stepping away from the microphone.<\/p>\n<p>What interests me more is whether this clown would turn the mic over to experts who have something relevant and important to say. I want to hear from the truth tellers, not from the Liar in Chief.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, I don&#8217;t begrudge the silence that emanated today from the White House.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23Fauci&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump didn&#8217;t go on the air today to blather on about the &#8220;fantastic job&#8221; he and his team are doing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Did you miss him? Neither did I. The president has spent far too much time standing in front of us yapping and yammering about this and that. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nothing from POTUS today? Ah, the silence is so golden!<\/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":[11,13],"tags":[9236,1424,9261],"class_list":["post-42185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42185","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=42185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42186,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42185\/revisions\/42186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}