{"id":42454,"date":"2020-04-27T16:42:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T16:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42454"},"modified":"2020-04-27T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T16:42:04","slug":"what-is-with-this-so-called-leader-of-an-entire-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42454","title":{"rendered":"What is with this so-called &#8216;leader&#8217; of an entire nation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23COVID19%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%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\/trump-immigration-ban-a-no-brainer-except-for-clueless-democrats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42377\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trump-immigration-ban-a-no-brainer-except-for-clueless-democrats-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trump-immigration-ban-a-no-brainer-except-for-clueless-democrats-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trump-immigration-ban-a-no-brainer-except-for-clueless-democrats-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/trump-immigration-ban-a-no-brainer-except-for-clueless-democrats.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone needs to explain to me how a U.S. president who declares himself to be a &#8220;wartime&#8221; leader, who vows to &#8220;unify&#8221; the nation, can get away with saying this about other elected officials in this great nation.<\/p>\n<p>He put this ditty out on Twitter this morning:<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-align: left; color: inherit; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.3125; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Ubuntu,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: inherit; orphans: 2; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1);\">Why should the people and taxpayers of America be bailing out poorly run states (like Illinois, as example) and cities, in all cases Democrat run and managed, when most of the other states are not looking for bailout help? I am open to discussing anything, but just asking?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What in the world is our &#8220;Dipsh** in Chief,&#8221; Donald Trump, saying here? Is he suggesting that if these &#8220;poorly run states \u2026 and cities&#8221; were run by <em>Republicans<\/em> that they would be getting all they help they sought from the feds? Or is he saying that party identity is the sole reason they are suffering so badly by the coronavirus pandemic?<\/p>\n<p>Good grief, man! I didn&#8217;t think Trump could sound more idiotic than when he ran for the presidency, but he has delivered the goods in spades since taking office. His response to the pandemic is offering proof damn near hourly of his unfitness for the office to which he was elected.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;wartime president&#8221; is obligated to speak to <em>all<\/em> Americans, to offer care and compassion to all of us, to seek <em>common ground<\/em> in the fight against a <em>common enemy.\u00a0<\/em>This enemy, the viral infection called COVID-19, is killing Republicans and Democrats without a single regard to its victims&#8217; party affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>There is no limit to the depths Donald John Trump will plunge as he continues to disgrace this country.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23COVID19%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23POTUS%20%40realDonaldTrump&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone needs to explain to me how a U.S. president who declares himself to be a &#8220;wartime&#8221; leader, who vows to &#8220;unify&#8221; the nation, can get away with saying this about other elected officials in this great nation. He put this ditty out on Twitter this morning: Why should the people and taxpayers of America &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42454\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is with this so-called &#8216;leader&#8217; of an entire nation?<\/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":[9236,9257,1424,9261,4932],"class_list":["post-42454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-pandemic","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42454","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=42454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42455,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42454\/revisions\/42455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}