{"id":42423,"date":"2020-04-25T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T18:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42423"},"modified":"2020-04-25T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T18:32:04","slug":"if-he-was-being-sarcastic-what-does-that-say-about-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42423","title":{"rendered":"If he was being &#8216;sarcastic,&#8217; what does that say about POTUS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23COVID19%20%23POTUS%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bleach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42414\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bleach-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bleach-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bleach.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s assume for the sake of discussion that Donald John &#8220;Knee Slapper in Chief&#8221; Trump was being &#8220;sarcastic&#8221; when he mused aloud about the possible benefits of injecting or ingesting <em>cleaning fluid<\/em> as a way to fight the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n<p>He said such a hideous thing this week at one of those White press room rants. Trump has been ridiculed &#8212; with <em>justification<\/em> &#8212; for saying such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>He then tried to take it back by suggesting he was, well,<em> joking.<\/em> He didn&#8217;t mean it. He mentioned that he sought to employ a little sarcasm while responding\u00a0 to a question from a &#8220;reporter like you.&#8221; He said he wanted to see what kind of reaction he would receive. <em>What a crock!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s true &#8212; and I do not believe it to be so &#8212; then that begs another question about Donald Trump&#8217;s ghastly lack of presidential temperament.\u00a0What kind of individual &#8212; faced with a viral infection that has killed more than 50,000 Americans in the span of two months &#8212; would make a &#8220;sarcastic&#8221; statement dealing with a matter of life and agonizing death.<\/p>\n<p>I will stand by my assertion that Trump made that ridiculous suggestion without a hint of sarcasm. What kind of individual, then, would use that dodge to bob-and-weave his way out of the criticism that has been leveled at him?<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump is a kook.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23COVID19%20%23POTUS%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s assume for the sake of discussion that Donald John &#8220;Knee Slapper in Chief&#8221; Trump was being &#8220;sarcastic&#8221; when he mused aloud about the possible benefits of injecting or ingesting cleaning fluid as a way to fight the COVID-19 virus. He said such a hideous thing this week at one of those White press room &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If he was being &#8216;sarcastic,&#8217; what does that say about POTUS?<\/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],"tags":[9236,9257,1424,9261],"class_list":["post-42423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42423","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=42423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42424,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42423\/revisions\/42424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}