{"id":42861,"date":"2020-05-24T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T19:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42861"},"modified":"2020-05-24T19:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T19:59:31","slug":"trump-tees-it-up-as-americans-continue-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42861","title":{"rendered":"Trump tees it up as Americans continue to die"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Donald John &#8220;Golfer in Chief&#8221; Trump teed it up this weekend at his golf resort in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say the &#8220;optics&#8221; look <em>real, real bad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We are closing in rapidly on 100,000 dead Americans from the coronavirus pandemic. Donald Trump has exhibited a shameful lack of empathy for the loss so many Americans are feeling at this moment. He wants to move at &#8220;warp speed&#8221; to reopen the economy; I mean, hey, he&#8217;s got a re-election campaign ramping up.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Americans continue to get sick and die. And the idiot in chief goes golfing.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mind the golf, per se. I have said all along that presidents never are &#8220;off the clock.&#8221; However, what in the name of media hysteria would be the reaction if Barack Obama had done such a thing while so many Americans were dying of a pandemic?<\/p>\n<p>Just had to ask. You know the answer. I damn sure do.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald John &#8220;Golfer in Chief&#8221; Trump teed it up this weekend at his golf resort in Florida. Let&#8217;s just say the &#8220;optics&#8221; look real, real bad. We are closing in rapidly on 100,000 dead Americans from the coronavirus pandemic. Donald Trump has exhibited a shameful lack of empathy for the loss so many Americans are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42861\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump tees it up as Americans continue to die<\/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":[1424,9261],"class_list":["post-42861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42861","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=42861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42863,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42861\/revisions\/42863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}